Haptik - a conversational commerce platform powered by AI - in collaboration with TLabs conducted a hackathon for chatbots - Botathon - in Bangalore on December 10 and 11.
The Botathon witnessed participation from over 97 engineers and developers from across 10 cities including Hyderabad, Jaipur, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.
The teams created spent 2 days creating chatbots across multiple platforms to solve a range of common yet complicated problems across areas such as the Educational Industry, Agricultural Industry, Entertainment industry, Health and Nutrition, Home Automation Industry and Tool bots.Read More: Pune Engineering College Students Win Envestnet Hackathon
After two days, 10 bots were shortlisted which were judged by a panel of jury.
Out of these ten, The Top 3 Chatbots selected were:
• Winners: CStrikers
The duo of Swarndeep S Arora and Anshuman Dhamoon developed a bot that helps users keep a track of their fitness goals and motivates them to achieve them by analysing their daily calorie intake and suggesting appropriate diet and workout regime
• First Runner-up: BroCorp
Rohin Gopalakrishnan and Arvind Kumar developed a Facebook Messenger bot with focus on customer experience.
Their bot - BroTender - aims to automate and simplify customer interaction at bars and restaurants without the need for the long waits for waiters and bartenders to take the orders. A user can ask the bot for the menu or have it recommend one based on personalized taste in a restaurant.
The bot also keeps a track of the user’s favourite meal from a previous order, splits payments with friends and will pay off the bill from the wallet integrated within
• Second Runner-up: Sven
Ganesh Kumar R P and Arvind Thangamani created a slack bot (DJ) for the team, which team members can use to request for a song of their choice.
As requests keep coming in, it queues them and also accepts controls like 'next', 'pause', 'clear playlist' to operate on the playlist. The bot also suggests songs to the team based on the songs played thus far
Speaking about India’s first ever Botathon, Aakrit Vaish – Co-founder and CEO, Haptik said, “2016 has been a year of Chatbots and also the year when CUI (Conversational User Interface) has come broken through in a big way. What is heartening to see is that Indian developers and startups have been at the forefront of this revolution, which is also a reason we decided to host this Botathon.”Also Read: Indian Twin Sisters Bag $100K Prizes in Siemens Science Competition
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