I'm here in Srinagar and we're going to my friend's Robotics School.
He is trying to upskill the Kashmiri youth
and get them involved in careers which have a real future.
And robotics and tech is definitely one of those things.
So here's the school and here's me talking to the kids.
Karl: Assalamu Alaikum! Children: Wa-Alaikum Salaam!
Karl: My name is Karl Rock and I'm a YouTuber.
I live with my wife in Delhi.
And I belong from New Zealand.
Where is New Zealand? Tell me.
Kid: Near Australia. Karl: Yes. You're right. Friend: Very good.
Karl: New Zealand is near Australia, at the bottom of the world.
So, robotics...
Robots are changing how work is done in New Zealand.
Robots are the future in New Zealand.
So you guys are famous for producing the best apples, right?
Karl: Kashmiri apples... Friend: Kashmir produces good apples, right?
Reply with confidence and reply frankly.
Karl is a friend. Karl: Yes, of course.
So in New Zealand, we are famous for producing kiwi.
Do you guys like Kiwi fruit? Children: Yes, sir!
Karl: We make this. You guys make apple. We make kiwi fruit.
And kiwi fruits grow on a tree like apples.
But in New Zealand, we now have robots which will go and pick the kiwi fruit off the tree.
We don't have kiwi fruit pickers.
And for example, the same thing will happen here, right?
Robots will come and start picking the apples.
You know, take away that human job. So...
This is a future career.. you guys doing robots.
Because there will be no apple picking jobs, you know?
Robot will come and take so many jobs.
So robotics are a really great career for the future.
There will always be a job for you in robotics
because you'll be doing these robots which will be doing the work.
So maybe, I might go to a robot and make my lassi in the morning and my buttermilk, right?
So could someone tell me what would your robot do?
Anybody?
What would you want your robot to do?
Friend: What would you want your robot to do?
What do you wish for a robot to do for you?
Karl: It will do anything. Robots can do anything. Absolutely anything.
Friend: Anything that you wish for. Anything that interests you.
Kid: To cook food. Karl: Yeah. You'd want it to make your food.
So there's really a robot in the Golden Temple in Amritsar which makes rotis.
It's all robots.
Kid: Wash my clothes. Karl: Wash your clothes? Yes.
It can come to your room, pick up your clothes and put it in the washing machine, right?
And it will be able to tell which clothes are dirty and which clothes are clean.
It will have this kind of intelligence.
Yeah?
Kid: Complete your homework. Karl: What's that? Kid: Complete your homework.
Karl: Complete your homework..
Friend: Who.. who is telling that?
So this would need to be a really smart robot with something called 'Artificial Intelligence'. Yeah.
That's a very advanced robot to have to do that.
Great idea though. I wish I had that when I was a kid.
So friends, tell me how was your day?
Kids: It was very good. Karl: It was good.. Good.
So what I've experienced here at my friend's school today is
how switched on, how smart, how interested in the future these young Kashmiri students are.
And the questions they were asking were spot on.
And he's trying to promote them into jobs that have a lot of growth in the future.
For example, robotics is gonna take over the world, right?
Like, robots are gonna be doing everything and
the people who are programming the robots are the ones that are gonna have a ton of work coming up.
So imagine if Kashmir can be a hub for something like that. It's awesome.
And if you want to get in touch with Shamim and his robotics school,
go to EdenPTI.com
And this video is not sponsored in anyway at all.
Shamim has been my friend for the past 3 years.
And actually the first time I ended up in Kashmir, he came to my hotel at 7 am,
brought me my favorite haleem, brought me the breads from the market
and brought Kashmiri tea.
And yeah, he made the haleem at home.
He was up at 5 am cooking me and Gaurav haleem and he poured it to us, the first time we met in Kashmir.
So yeah. He is an amazing friend.