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  COVID-19: Kochi's polling booth equipped with robot to check voters' temperature

  News | December 11, 2020 16:11 IST

  A robot was installed at a polling booth in Thrikkakara region of Kerala's Kochi. It was installed by Ernakulam district administration to check body temperature of all the voters and dispensed hand sanitizers.

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  Coimbatore engineering students develop robot for contactless care of COVID patients

  News | November 25, 2020 7:56 IST

  Amid COVID-19, when the best medicine is social distancing to reduce contamination, a proactive team of six undergraduate Mechatronics engineering students have developed a prototype called A Doctor To Be (ADTB).

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  Kanpur student develops 'air purifier robot' amid rising pollution

  News | November 10, 2020 17:20 IST

  In the midst of rising air pollution in several states of India, a student of class 11 from Kanpur has developed a unique robot that soaks up pollutants from the air and acts as a purifier.

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  Milagrow launches 4 humanoid robots to help India in COVID-19 fight

  Technology | July 16, 2020 15:47 IST

  Indian consumer robot maker Milagrow on Thursday launched its 4 new humanoid robots - RoboDiCaprio, RoboJulia, RoboNano and RoboElf - which are specially designed to cater to hotels, hospitals, restaurants and corporate offices.

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  China introduces first robot restaurant complex with robot chefs, waiters: Know details

  Technology | July 13, 2020 10:36 IST

  Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, robots could be the need of the hour to maintain social distancing and not letting industries succumbing to the virus

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  Pune railway station installs a Robot to scan passengers | Watch

  India | June 13, 2020 20:21 IST

  Using technology to keep coronavirus at bay, the Central Railway's Railway Protection Force has deployed a robot, 'Captain Arjun', to screen patients and also enhance security surveillance at the Pune station, an official said.

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  Robot deployed at Bengaluru hospital to serve food, medicine to coronavirus patients | Watch

  India | April 26, 2020 9:21 IST

  Taking no chances in the time of coronavirus and maintain maximum precautions to take care of patients, Bengaluru's Victoria hospital has deployed a robot to serve food and medicine to coronavirus patients. This is a step forward to mitigate the risk of infection to the hospital staff also.

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  Talking lady robot Vyomamitra is going to space in Gaganyaan spacecraft. First pictures

  Science | January 23, 2020 0:01 IST

  ​The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is sending Vyomamitra, a talking lady robot, in unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft. The Indian space agency has planned to send Vyomamitra even before orbiting astronauts on India's first manned mission to Space in December 2021.

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  Manipur youth develops humanoid robot that can communicate, pick up objects

  Science | December 09, 2019 18:01 IST

  "Not only in sports and culture Manipur has enough talent in science and technology too. Shri Irom Roshan Meitei, (21yrs) 1st yr student of ITI has successfully made a ROBOT which can communicate,

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  This UAE-based Indian kid's eco-robot to be showcased at Dubai Expo 2020

  World | December 05, 2019 10:44 IST

  Nine-year-old Harshith is a Grade 4 student of Bright Riders School Abu Dhabi. His project, called 'Robotic waste segregation to organic composting', was chosen to be part of Expo 2020 Young Innovators programme.

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  NASA launching a 'robot hotel' to space station

  Science | December 04, 2019 15:50 IST

  NASA is attaching a "robot hotel" to the outside of the International Space Station with the upcoming launch of the Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS), a protective storage unit for critical robotic tools.

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  Robots may cut cost of repairing broken satellites in space

  Science | November 28, 2019 15:05 IST

  In his lab, Ma and University of Cincinnati senior research associate Anoop Sathyan are developing robotic networks that can work independently but collaborativly on a common task.  

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  'Trash talk' hurts even more when it comes from a robot: Study

  Science | November 19, 2019 15:43 IST

  Discouraging words such as "I have to say you are a terrible player" can be disturbing for people even when uttered by a robot, according to a study presented here.

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  First autonomous humanoid robot with artificial skin developed

  World | October 11, 2019 15:52 IST

  Scientists have developed a system combining artificial skin with control algorithms and used it to create the first autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin.

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  Russia launches humanoid robot 'FEDOR' into space

  World | August 22, 2019 22:09 IST

  Russia launched its first humanoid robot astronaut into the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday. The launch took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3.38 a.m. (local time), said the Mission Control Centre of the Russian Federal Space Agency. It will reach the station on Saturday. 

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  IIT Madras develops robot with good grasping capability

  August 14, 2019 14:43 IST

  Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) have developed a Multimodal Robotic System with good grasping, manipulation and locomotion abilities for use in industrial and field applications, the IITM said on Wednesday.

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  Leech-inspired soft robot can climb walls

  Technology | May 12, 2019 13:09 IST

  The team from Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan and University of Cambridge in the UK created LEeCH (Longitudinally Extensible Continuum-robot inspired by Hirudinea) with material used for shower hose, and two suction cups. 

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  Researchers develop new robotic system capable of learning ownership relations, norms

  Lifestyle | December 24, 2018 9:02 IST

  The researchers evaluated the performance of their robotic system in a series of simulated and real-world experiments. 

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  2.0 in legal trouble ahead of release; complaint filed against Rajinikanth for promoting anti-scientific attitude

  Regional Cinema | November 27, 2018 19:02 IST

  The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) filed a complaint against the makers of 2.0 for promoting obscurantist and anti-scientific attitudes towards mobile phones, towers and mobile services. 

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  Robots will never replace teachers: Study

  Technology | August 16, 2018 20:31 IST

  They found that robots are still insufficient to understand spoken utterances from young children.