{"id":33608,"date":"2018-10-30T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33608"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:45:24","slug":"why-the-humanoid-robot-could-soon-be-your-new-best-mitra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-the-humanoid-robot-could-soon-be-your-new-best-mitra\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the humanoid robot could soon be your new best\u00a0Mitra\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/why-the-humanoid-robot-could-soon-be-your-new-best-mitra-4960982\/\"><strong>Why the humanoid robot could soon be your new best\u00a0Mitra<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A robot called Mitra greeted PM Modi and Ivanka Trump at Hyderabad\u2019s Global Entrepreneurship Summit. We could see more Mitra-like robots soon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitra: The Humanoid robot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Mitra\u2019, the humanoid robot that greeted Prime Minister\u00a0of India\u00a0and Ivanka Trump at the inauguration of the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), has been developed by a Bengaluru-based start-up Invento Robotics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The company was founded by BalajiVishwanathan in 2016<\/li>\n<li>Made of fibre-reinforced plastic, the five foot-tall humanoid is capable of face and speech recognition and can interact with human beings smartly<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deployed at Canara Bank<\/strong>: It is already deployed at the Canara Bank\u2019s main branch at J C Road in Bengaluru, where it assists customers. Invento Robotics, which researched and built the robot, sells and rents out its robots for events and functions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2018Mitra\u2019 can automate your opening an account. Typically, one\u2019d have to stand in a queue at a counter, fill in forms and give photographs to open an account and get a passbook. Mitra will greet the customer, take their photo,\u00a0Aadhaarcard details, etc., store these in the bank\u2019s database and in five or six minutes, request the customer to collect their passbook from a specified counter. It makes it that easy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Depending on the requirement, the company customizes robots accordingly. The humanoid also has a touch screen on its chest which can be used to interact where speech is not possible. On a single charge, it can work upto eight hours. It can also understand multiple languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the humanoid robot could soon be your new best\u00a0Mitra\u00a0 Context A robot called Mitra greeted PM Modi and Ivanka Trump at Hyderabad\u2019s Global Entrepreneurship Summit. We could see more Mitra-like robots soon Mitra: The Humanoid robot \u2018Mitra\u2019, the humanoid robot that greeted Prime Minister\u00a0of India\u00a0and Ivanka Trump at the inauguration of the 2017 Global&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-the-humanoid-robot-could-soon-be-your-new-best-mitra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why the humanoid robot could soon be your new best\u00a0Mitra\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704828722},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}