{"id":4582,"date":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/07-10-2022\/vyom-mitra\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"vyom-mitra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/07-10-2022\/vyom-mitra","title":{"rendered":"Vyom Mitra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Recently, the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>humanoid \u201cVyommitra\u201d<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> was designed and developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>About Vyommitra<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/WUo4PZBsQwoh5IAhlfrBWTa7BJSyYUiR_12rd4KDu53ZiiraielGsKxIjvgtQBkOpwdtZPIwpx4m6ssUGXw4fJBdMUy9cAx82k8PfpBHONfiFVHmWi15UtKjnDNZgVdGhRtTp9TL_Xg0EOT0moSlvRZuNO5ymmcrhbxaP0CHMKpY3H_ndGNYGpBrKw\" style=\"height:326.0; width:437.0\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Meaning\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>\u2018female\u2019 AI-enabled robot astronaut. <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is a<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> half-humanoid <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">lacking lower limbs<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Characteristics<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It has been designed to <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>resemble a human with facial expressions<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> and speech and sight capabilities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Development<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>IISU<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> was responsible for the design, development, and integration of the robot, while <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>ISRO centre Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> at Thumba developed its fingers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>To fly aboard unmanned test missions<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> ahead of the Gaganyaan human space-flight mission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU) has successfully integrated it with a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>computer \u2018brain\u2019<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> which enables it to <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>\u2018read\u2019 control panels<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> aboard the unmanned test flights and communicate with the ISRO ground stations.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/vyommitra-isros-humanoid-for-unmanned-missions-gets-computer-brain\/article65975585.ece\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">TH<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Recently, the humanoid \u201cVyommitra\u201d was designed and developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). About Vyommitra Meaning\u00a0 It is the \u2018female\u2019 AI-enabled robot astronaut. It is a half-humanoid lacking lower limbs. Characteristics It has been designed to resemble a human with facial expressions and speech and sight capabilities.\u00a0\u00a0 Development IISU was responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,132],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs-3","tag-indigenisation-of-technology"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3133835Screenshot_20221007-123332_Android System.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}