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Who we are

4K Labs is a Research and development laboratory at Addis Ababa University (AAU) located in the College of Natural and Computational Science(CNCS), under the Computer Science department. where there are teams of curious innovators from different disciplines of study, working together in the focus area of AI, Robotics, embedded systems, tiny ML, and software development.

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Mission And Vision

Mission
Mission

Our Mission

The mission of 4K Labs is to conduct research and development in the fields of AI, ML, embedded systems, software development, and robotics to create innovative solutions that can solve real-world problems. This may involve developing hardware systems, software platforms, or new algorithms that can improve efficiency and reduce costs. More precisely, the mission of 4K Labs is to create new opportunities for individuals by pushing the boundaries of what is possible with these cutting-edge technologies.

Vision
Vision

Our Vision

The vision of 4K Labs is to be one of the leaders in the development of innovative solutions that leverage state of the art technologies to solve complex problems and create new opportunities. As one pillar of the university is community service, 4K Labs has a vision to be at the forefront of R&D to provide solutions to the community challenges.

The motivation of the 4K Labs is to bring students from different disciplines together to create an interdisciplinary research environment in AAU. In the lab, a group of curious students come together to change their idea into a reality. Members and interns in the lab update their skills through project-based learning, where members of the lab will keep on learning by iterating possible solutions until the project becomes a reality. A member of 4K Labs is an asset to his colleagues which will ignite peer-to-peer learning. 4K Labs has basic three divisions which are

4K Bots

Is the division of 4K Labs, focusing on robotics and Artificial Intelligence. In this focus area members of 4K Labs work on projects such as; controlling robots for playing football, programming robots to complete autonomous tasks, and Autonomous cars.

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4K Things

In this age of technology, embedded systems are everywhere in our daily life starting from smart watches to the smart cars we drive. 4K Labs is interested in researching and developing solutions to existing problems that seek hardware solutions. 4K Things is a specialization of 4K Labs that focuses on embedded systems, IoT, and Tiny Machine Learning. Some of the projects done in this specialization are Smart mirrors, home automation, smart power meter and hardware-based games.

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4K Dev

4K Dev is a specialization of 4K Labs that focuses on developing software solutions to existing problems that have been identified. The teams in 4K dev are the contact point when there is interest in bringing a hardware solution to the cloud. 4K Dev specialization was able to develop software and websites such as the 4K Labs website, class scheduling app, and agile working platform for the team.

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