Indian-born PhD student Chand Gudi believes artificial intelligence could one day solve the problem of an ageing population.
"Social robots can be a part of their lives, supporting them, being a companion, like their carers, in the future," he told SBS.
Mr Gudi is studying social robotics at the University of Technology, Sydney and is examining how the emerging field can assist humans.
He's a member of UTS' 'Magic Lab' team, a centre for artificial intelligence, which Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple is a part of.
Last year, the team entered world's biggest robot competition, Robocup, in Japan and won the Human-Robot Interaction Award.
"We developed a whole system. A robot is a multi-media kind of device," the lab's director, Professor Mary-Anne Williams told SBS.
"So, it can move, it can point, it can gesture, it can display things on its screen, it can change its lights, it can move around. So orchestrating that all together is a challenging task.
"Chand was very important in our efforts to achieve this quite extraordinary system that, won that prize."
Mr Gudi said the robot, known as Habanero can be a companion to humans.
"It can share its feelings, or emotions, and be a part of the human life."
His goal is to make ground-breaking contribution in the field of robotics using artificial intelligence, which can make a big impact on society.”
