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Now, Futuristic Smart Suit Will Monitor Real-time Fitness

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September 25, 2020

Now, Futuristic Smart Suit Will Monitor Real-time Fitness

Ever-Heard of Futuristic Smart Suits?

Continuous advancement in technology in the early 21st century has fostered the development of wearable fitness tracking devices. From the basic pedometer that could track steps taken it has improved to the devices that can track blood oxygen level, spinal posture, and many other aspects of the body used to monitor fitness.

Athletes need a compact fitness tracker to monitor and upgrade their current fitness regime and hone their skills. A research team from the National University of Singapore has come up with a brilliant smartphone-powered smart suit. This suit can ideally collect data from multiple sensors fixed at the athlete’s body. This compact suit reduces the clutter of wire and weight to a great extent.

Everything you should know about the Smart suit

Assistant Professor John Ho and his team from the NUS Institute for Health Innovation and Technology came up with a smart suit having the design of web-like threads to transmit the electromagnetic signals from the nearby smartphone to the sensors fixed on the body. Smartphones are the primary source of data connectivity and power across this suit.

This research team proved that it was possible to relay the Near-field communication (NFC) signals of the smartphone to the multiple locations on the body with the web-like inductive pattern after carrying intense research for two years. The same findings were published in Nature’s commission this year.

Asst Prof John Ho, from the NUS Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, said that “Our smart suit works with most modern smartphones, which act as both the source of power as well as the display to view the sensor data. The creation of a smart suit that can be powered using built-in smartphone wireless technology is a major breakthrough,”

The technology used in this smart suit

Over time, athletes were either using small tracking devices limited to particular body parts and gave results only for that part. It lacked the full fitness dimension required by athletes. The other option was the bulky tracking setups of clinical monitoring equipment mired with tangled wires and sensors to capture data from different body parts. Both technologies are not convenient for daily use. The good news for athletes is that this new smart suit invention gives the midway to the above problem by providing a light-weight, portable solution. You can also check out Top 6 Gadgets Every Fitness Addict Should Be Using.

This smart suit comes with the sewn web of conductive silver thread of sensors.

These sensors relay electromagnetic signals from the smartphone to the body’s different strategic locations and share the results back to the smartphone.

Sensors do not require any battery for charging but instead use the smartphone’s NFC chip to get charged. It significantly reduces the suit’s weight and allows an easy way to collect the data from the body’s multiple areas.

Features of the Smart suit

This smart suit has unique features that make it stand out in the list of already existing fitness tracking devices.

This suit can be used to monitor heart rate, body temperature, spinal posture, and running gait simultaneously.

It offers complete physiological data to athletes by round-the-clock monitoring, which can help athletes hone their physical skills.
The current prototype can support six sensors per smartphone.
It is light-weight and wireless.
The custom-application on the phone gives the users easy access to the tracked data.
This smart suit also gives timely alerts to the user. E.g., alert for raised body temperature while performing any physical activity.
It is easy to maintain.
It works well with most modern smartphones.

Benefits of Smart suit

With sensors and NFC technology discussed above, this smartphone-powered smart suit has the potential to capture data from almost all body parts and makes real-time monitoring very easy.
It has a unique feature to retrieve data of spinal position. For developing a strong athletic stance, spinal posture can play a vital role. This aspect was often overlooked earlier due to challenges in collecting real-time data, but now it is easily possible due to this smart suit.

This smart suit can work best for people with chronic back problems as they can try to develop good spine posture by studying the results of data ascertained by the real-time monitoring.

The research team led by Asst Prof John Ho is planning to expand the range of data collected by the smart suit by developing new sensors. They are looking forward to working with professional athletes to help them monitor their physiological signals during training.

Google Maps New Feature Will Replicate The COVID-19 Status In Your Area

Archana Udayanan

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September 25, 2020

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Google Maps New Feature Will Replicate The COVID-19 Status In Your Area

With the COVID-19 pandemic, unfortunately, anticipated to stay longer, Google Maps added a new feature to its already long-list of countenances. This feature will be known as the ‘COVID Layer’. As per the makers, COVID Layer will deliberately present the information like the number of active cases, the percentage of cured cases, and all the relevant information in that area, which will help the users to take a call whether to visit that particular area or what specific precautions to be endured while traveling to that area.

The feature would augment the list of features on Google Maps with its release. Google Maps already has several known and even unknown features that help the users vivaciously in their travel. The video below demonstrates the various inbuilt features in Google Maps that are little-known to most of us.

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What is the new-feature all about?

Google Maps, knowingly one of the most commonly used applications by almost all, has now introduced a calculated list of COVID-19 outbreaks in your area. The new feature is set to deliver a seven-day average of active cases per 100,000 people for a particular area of the map. The users can vividly distinguish the densely affected area from the least affected ones, with the help of a special colour coding feature. The technology giant announced that the colour coding feature will make the feature most useful.

How will the COVID layer device the information?

In a blog post, Google described that the information on Google’s new COVID Layer is easily accessible. On the right corner of the application, there would appear a button called ‘COVID-19 info’, which will carry all the data for the same. Google Maps can easily use this feature by tapping on the ‘COVID info’ button that will direct to a page that will supposedly picture the various affected areas with their density of cases. Google claims that this feature is going to be efficient enough to deliver the average counts of COVID-19 cases, thereby providing a good window to the accessible areas and the not very accessible areas in regards to COVID.

Public health organizations like the World Health Organization, government health ministries, in addition to the state and local health agencies and hospitals are responsible to gather information related to the active corona patients, cured patients, casualties for the same, and all pertinent data. This data is collectively then handed over to different sources like Wikipedia, JohnHopkins, the New York Times, etc. Google will then collect the same from the relevant COVID-19 information from these sources.

Google will indicate all the collected information in a clear location-wise guide, as a calculated output of a seven-day average of new COVID cases per 100,000 people for your particular area on the map. A dedicated label that will indicate the trending case situation, whether scrolling up or down. The sources confirmed that the feature will picture the data clearly with the help of colour coding attribute added to this feature. This attribute would be enabled in Google Maps for all the 220 countries or territories along with state or province, county, and city, that it supports.

While the COVID-19 cases are increasing every day in numbers that are growing difficult to be contained, this COVID Layer tab added by the technology giant will surely help alert the users and provide valuable assistance on taking a decision to travel to that area accordingly. Till a powerful dedicated vaccine to kill this coronavirus takes its grounds, it is really quintessential to take the precautions. Now, we need to wait and learn, whether the usage statistics of this particular tab will be anywhere equivalent to the dynamic ratio of usage of Google Maps.

8 Incredible VR and AR Apps that are a must-have for your iPhone!

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Archana Udayanan

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September 24, 2020

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8 Incredible VR and AR Apps that are a must-have for your iPhone!

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality have touched all facets of life, with its magic-like bliss! Whether it be the Medical field, Engineering, Civil, or any Industry, you name it, VR and AR are seen playing a vital technology-cajoled part.

Well, VR and AR applications on mobile stores are nothing behind in the race. With reality postulated in almost every arena, these applications are good-to-have applications in your iPhone as well as Android.

Most VR & AR apps are found to be compatible with any Apple smartphone, but certainly, these games and apps are known to deliver better performance with the latest and fastest iPhones than the older ones. However, you may conveniently use most of them on any model starting with the iPhone 5 to the iPhone X and beyond, including the iPhone SE. A plethora of VR headsets and goggles, such as Google Cardboard, Merge VR, Noon VR Pro, and Homido headsets can be efficiently utilized with your iPhone and for that matter any of the latest Android mobiles, too.

Now, when you have an iPhone better get one virtual reality headset, in case you don’t have it already, to explore the best VR/AR games in the list below!

There are amazing and very engaging VR and AR applications in the Apple as well as Android stores that can suit our tastes and encourage our explorations skill. We have an array of them over here for your ease. Feel free to exploit the different levels of each application and soothe your craving for knowledge and fun!

Best VR and AR applications on our list:

1. VR Space Stalker

The best sci-fi, 360 VR space simulator game on the Apple Store, on our list the number one is VR Space Stalker. A fascinating space exploration game as you will find it gives immense adventure to the player, who becomes a space stalker in here. The space stalker has to deal with a space full of danger and battle against the enemies with that fabulous VR glasses on!

You will find yourself lucky if you haven’t already experienced enough space shooters on the Gear VR. Immerse yourself deeply into the war in space and become the best space shooter, without even leaving your home.

2. ORBULUS

Claimed as the first VR application created by VRCraftswork, Orbulus is a wonderful app that captures the true analogy of VR to teleport someone around the world. Sitting at the very comfort of your sofa, you can see yourself vividly sight and interact in the VR environment.

This app not only simplifies the user experience in VR and provides the best hands-free experience in VR, but also lets you visualize a 360-degree photosphere of several locations on the globe.

Orbulus is most popular among Cardboard users and for definite reasons.

3. DINOTREK

You can live your love for Dinosaurs, in this virtual dinosaur world. Explore the sometimes hostile life of these ancient creatures via Dinotrek, in the most convenient way with your stylish VR glasses.

You can run this app as a virtual simulator or experience as being a part of this mysterious world in the form of a virtual reality film. Whichever way, you can immerse in your favourite world of dinosaurs through this Geomedias first creation using those vogue glares of yours!

4. INCELL

If you are action-game crazy, then here’s a VR game for you! Venture into the very familiar but never traversed-world of the human body with Incell. It replicates a perfect merger of science and strategy, thereby providing an amalgam of fun and learning.

The best thing about this app is that you can have a fine experience even without a VR glass. Just tap and hold the screen to open it in ordinary view or trigger the screen with your VR glass to view in VR mode. Either way, the game encounters many challenges and is fun.

5. RollerCoaster

The tight turns and the steep slopes are very well depicted in the next game on the list. Receive all the fun of an amusement park in RollerCoaster with the open car and elevated railroads. Explore the wild and unpredictable changes in this very emotional rollercoaster game.

Next time you miss going to a fair, kill the bill with this very amazing game!

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6. VR TANK TRAINING

VR Tank Training is designed with an intention to provide the best realtime feel of the tank training to be experienced perfectly with efficient VR glasses. It is intelligently modeled based on the mesh blending simulation, which is quite similar to the Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 games.

You experience the complete feel with 360 degrees head movement, however, the focus is achieved only through your eyes. Tropical trees and all 3D graphics bolstered by natural sounds of war with stereo 3D and immersive audio features can be very well experienced with earphones. With no additional magnetic switch or NFC needed, this game gives a truly bold experience with the leaderboard and great level of challenges.

7. BOOKFUL

All the little book-lovers, here is a call for you! Bookful is the best app for you that brings books to life and ignites the passion for reading books in the tiny munchkins.

Turn that eye-straining screentime into funfilled interactive reading sessions with this AR app. The 3D graphics make the small library of books the fanciest journey towards knowledge.

8. Within

The best-handpicked creators, studios, and film-festivals are hand-picked as the best immersive stories on Within. Photo-real people and places depict the award-winning documentaries, horror, animations, music videos, and more in this app.

This VR game is presented with no charges and surprisingly no ads. This cinematic virtual reality game is a must-have app on the Apple and Android stores.

Thanks for the Read!

While there are a lot more VR and AR apps on the list, these 8 turns out to be the fantastic ones. Do try these apps and comment below for further such best-lists!

Explore The Most Awaited Discord Screen Share Feature

Neha Agarwal

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September 24, 2020

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Explore The Most Awaited Discord Screen Share Feature

Discord is one of the VoIP application and a group-chatting platform designed especially for gamers. But over five years, it is being used by other communities like education too. The company is continuously working for the improvement of the application by periodically updating it. Discord is split into the servers, each of which has its topics, channels, rules, and members.

Discord is enjoyed a lot by PUBG gamers and Youtube users these days as it allows you to voice and video chat along with Livestream games and different programs from your computer. As a part of its upgrading nature, the company has added a new feature of Discord screen share early this year. Screen sharing was earlier possible only in Direct messaging, but now it can be done on Discord servers. Let’s explore how to share screens in Discord on servers, go Live, and Mobiles in detail.

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Share screen on discord

To make it more exciting for all the passionate Gamers, Discord has added a screen sharing feature. By this, you can now share an entire desktop screen, a particular window, gameplay, or any non-gaming things like shows or movies with up to nine other people on a video call without changing any settings.

You can seamlessly share screen using Discord screen share, but to enable particular options like higher streaming quality and frame rate, you have to subscribe to Discord Nitro (premium package). It’s effortless to use this feature. You can share screens in three different scenarios of Discord.

While calling through Direct message.
In Discord server, while you are connected to the voice channel.
While using Discord Mobiles.

Initial settings before using Discord screen share functionality

You can make sure your video, camera, and microphone settings are proper before using the screen share option. You can check and change these settings by the following steps:

Click on the cog icon present in the left-hand bottom corner beside your profile.

From the left-side panel, click on Voice & Video option and check for the desired microphone settings and camera.

Once the initial settings are done, you can carry the following steps to share your screen while calling from Direct Message.

Steps to share the screen in Direct Message.

You generally use Direct message for private conversation and chat with the person, not in your server group. Let’s check step-by-step how you can use the Discord screen share feature in Direct message while calling.

Call your friend through DM.

Note: You only need to call with your one friend to enable screen sharing, but you can add up to nine other friends in the group call.

2. With your video call up and running, locate the “Share Screen Button” in the call panel and press on it.

3. With your video call up and running, locate the “Share Screen Button” in the call panel and press on it.

4. On pressing the screen sharing button, a popup menu appears.

a) It gives you two options of sharing

1. Your Entire Screen

2. Application Window

b) You can even select the stream quality and frame rate. To enable the stream quality more than 720 and frame rate more than 30, you need the Discord Nitro membership.

5.If you are selecting the option of sharing a specific application, you can enable sound sharing by toggling the sound switch.

Note: Sound sharing is available only for the Windows client

6. Choose any one desired option and press the Share button to start sharing your screen.

Steps to share the screen in the Discord server.

With the “Go Live” feature of Discord, you can stream gameplays and other things with your friends. Discord has recently upgraded Go Live, enabling Discord screen share among 50 people instead of 10 people. You can carry the following quick steps to share the screen in Discord Server.

After logging in Discord and with proper permission, you can join the Voice channel in the server.

Click on the ‘Go Live’ button present in the voice channel status panel.

Select from the popup menu whether you want to share a specific application window or the entire screen.

Press on the ‘Go Live’ button to finally share your screen.
If you want to change the screen to be shared on the fly, you can click “the change screen” icon in the Go Live panel.

Steps to share the screen in Discord mobile.

Actually, you cannot directly share your phone’s screen on Discord. That capability is still not available. In response to the surge of user’s request, Discord has taken a step to add the functionality of Discord screen share in mobiles recently, which will allow users to share the screen from their Android or iPhone device.

Yes, you read it correctly! You may soon be able to share your mobile screen with your friends in Discord. Till that, you can use Discord’s video calling feature to share your screen. Confused? Don’t worry, its a very simple trick. While video calling, you can share your webcam and microphone on the voice channel connected to the mobiles running Android or iOS operating systems. You have to join any voice channel, then trigger a video call.

Wrapping Up:

Discord screen share is a fantastic feature that comes in handy for a passionate gamer. From sharing games and videos to solve any technical issue by your friend’s help, this feature has uplifted user’s experience by many folds.

Apple Launched First-Ever Online Store For India On September 23

Shivangi Kaushik

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September 24, 2020

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Apple Launched First-Ever Online Store For India On September 23

Apple marked its expansion by launching its first online store in India on September 23. The Cupertino-based tech giant revealed the news through various channels. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, took to Twitter to share this news with the world.

India is the second-largest smartphone market and the company is all set to introduce a wide range of services directly to the customers in this market. The company has launched its online store for the very first time in over 20 years since it began working in India. Already Apple One steps up in the bundle battle.

The company has confirmed that the online store will be offering its entire range of products, and also will assist its buyers with promising customer support. Till now the company has been selling its products in India via third-party players such as Flipkart and Amazon.

But now it will be selling its products on its own via its online store in India, enabling the buyers to purchase the products directly from the company.

“Its online store will offer AppleCare+, which extends the warranty on its hardware products by up to two years, as well as a trade-in program to let customers access discounts on the purchase of new iPhones by returning previous models.” said the company in one of its statements issued regarding the launch.

Not only this; the customer can now buy Macs with custom configuration using the online services.

Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail + People, in a statement, quoted- “We know our users are relying on technology to stay connected, engage in learning, and tap into their creativity, and by bringing the Apple Store online to India, we are offering our customers the very best of Apple at this important time”

According to various reports, the online store will offer much more than just the company’s products. It will offer reliable and smooth Apple Specialists. These people will guide the buyers in their purchases and provide support.

If sources are to be believed, the company’s online store will also have customer support providing help in English and Hindi.

Deirdre O’Brien, further added, “We’re proud to be expanding in India and want to do all we can to support our customers and their communities…”

The news about Apple launching its online store for the first time came a few days back, however speculations about the same were quite high ever since the beginning of 2020. Various websites have already written about this happening at the very beginning of this year.

In reference to what is mentioned in the prior paragraph, Apple’s statement from August 2019 in one of its posts from January 2020, stated that the company is looking forward to serving it’s Indian customers online.

The iPhone-maker said that it was “eager to serve [customers of India] online and in-store with the same experience and care that Apple customers around the world enjoy.”

It was a month later when Tim Cook confirmed the development and announced that the first physical store will be launched in 2020 in India.

The company wrote on its website that it will be giving additional discounts to students so they can enjoy Apple’s products and accessories at a reasonable cost. It is also planning to furnish various financing options to the customers in India.

The customers get to check out free online sessions on music and photography from professional creatives on the store and this service will be commencing from the next month. In addition to this, “they(customers) can engrave emoji or text on their AirPods in several Indian languages” the company wrote.

India’s smartphone market is decisively split into two unequal halves, in which the bigger half counts to 99% and the other half, as obvious, count to 1%. The market is dominated by Android smartphones. The launch of Apple’s online store is sure to mark a fresh beginning in its business in India.

iPhone makers have evidently been more active in recent years. Foxconn, the company’s contract manufacturer, began assembling iPhones in India in July. This was the first time the company was locally assembling a current-generation iPhone model in the country.

Assembling handsets in India will allow Apple (and other smartphone giants) to reduce the overall cost of its products. This will avoid roughly 20% import duty that the Indian government imposes on imported electronics products.

Apple has already been selling several of its services including Apple Music and TV+ at a record-low price in India, and now with its online store, the company is expected to be selling its other products at lower prices as well. In turn, the number of customers will increase in India.

For instance, the starting price of the iPhone 11 Pro Max is $1,487 in India, compared to $1,099 in the U.S. The AirPods Pro, which sells at $249 in the U.S., was launched in India at $341. The online store could be a turning point in Apple’s business in India by bringing down the difference between the price of the same products in the US and India respectively.

To ensure the health and wellbeing of Apple’s team, customers, and communities, the shipping of Apple products that are ordered via the online store will be done with contactless delivery. The company said- “Orders that do not require a signature will be left at the customer’s door, and those that do will need only a verbal confirmation from a safe distance instead of a written signature.”

This AI Instantly Marks Down Local COVID-19 Outbreaks; No Doubling!

Archana Udayanan

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September 23, 2020

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This AI Instantly Marks Down Local COVID-19 Outbreaks; No Doubling!

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The COVID-19 pandemic that is spreading globally like fire, demands strong prediction tools and means to containing its spread, till the sure measures to kill this malicious coronavirus surface. Yet again, another machine learning tool gathers all its valour for serving humankind from the indomitable outburst.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Georgia Tech, and Boston Medical Center tied up together to develop a new Artificial intelligence-based system that detects potential COVID-19 outbreaks in individual US counties. The tool was tested recently and found to be very accurate and beneficial.

AI to check COVID-19 at your place! Sounds amazing.

This machine learning-induced tool frames its assessments on the basis of reported COVID-19 deaths and positive cases. Other factors that are considered for computation of the estimation are rates of active cases, social distancing norms, face mask policies, etc. The variation in changes in the tests is also taken into account by the tool.

These statistics are gathered by the AI tool to organize its learning. The machine then calculates the number of days the local area might take to double the cases. Based on the reports thus gathered, the tool analyses the speed of the spread of the virus.

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Alongside, the prediction on the curable statistics is also drawn subject to Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Vulnerability Index. Based on the factors like population density and ratio of poverty, this AI-based tool assesses how the communities are prepared to tackle the hazards of the spread of disease.

All the county’s prognosis, assimilated by the AI, is then displayed on an interactive heat map that reflects each county’s multiplying rate. The interactive heat map also presents the area’s population, active cases, death counts, and average daily cases, all of which are updated two-to-three times per week.

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The earlier mitigation responses hugely focused on state-level control measures that incorporated the lockdown of that place. In case of any local outbreak detection, taking containing actions in that particular county would suffice the purpose. The scenario then was able to predict the outbreaks in a matter of days. The restaurants and other socially crowded places were then subject to closure in the specified place of containment.

However, as you all know it, now, that the societies have started living with it and released all the lockdown norms, the spread is predictably high and subject to increase even further.

According to Lydia Bourouiba, an associate professor directing the Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory at MIT, “This virus is going to stay with us for a while — and certainly data suggest that it is not going to suddenly disappear when the weather changes,” she says. “There’s a fine and important balance between safety, precautions, and action that is important to strike to enable and dramatically accelerate research to be done now so we can be better prepared and informed for actions in the weeks and months to come when the worst of the pandemic will unfold.”

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The AI tool was tested, last week and it reported an outbreak in Johnson County Iowa. As predicted by the system, an outbreak that was linked to a surge in cases at the University of Iowa did spring up. The tool also reported several other counties including Harrisonburg County in Virginia, Wheeler County in Georgia, Monroe County in Indiana, and Whitman County in Washington, where potential outbreaks could be happening now. We need to wait and gather information on the same.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has estimated that it will take at least 12 to 18 months to fully test any potential Covid-19 vaccine for safety and effectiveness.

While we wait for the assassination of this Novel Coronavirus altogether, let us try out this detection tool and find out how our county is doing in regards to the spread of COVID-19 with this efficient detection tool.

Know Everything About Mitra- The New Robot-friend Of COVID Patients

Neha Agarwal

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September 23, 2020

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Know Everything About Mitra- The New Robot-friend Of COVID Patients

The robots haven’t just come down in the workplace, but they are now significantly impacting people’s social lives with their advancements. By presenting great productivity, they are rapidly replacing their human counterparts. Humanoid robots are particular types of robots that resemble humans and mimic human emotions and interactions.

One such multi-tasking humanoid robot is Mitra. Developed and designed by the Indian startup company of Bangalore Invento Robotics, this fantastic robot gained a lot of attention by manifesting robotics’ real power in the pandemic’s difficult time.

Same as its meaning, ‘Mitra’ proves to be the true friend in this time of crisis. It is shoving aside nurses and doctors in the hospital and playing an incredible role in treating COVID patients. Recently Yatharth hospital in Noida has deployed this robot for counseling its patients, monitor its ward, and connect corona patients to their friends and relatives. Are You Ready for COVID-19? A Look at the Future of Remote Work.

“For patients fighting COVID, seeing a humanoid with whom they can interact with brings positivity, generates good hormones, and helps with their mental well being. Apart from that, Mitra also helps out the health staff,” says Dr. Rahul Singh, HOD, COVID-ICU, Yatharth hospital

All about Mitra

The five feet tall humanoid robot was specially designed to assist in hospital management and increase workplace productivity. It gained a lot of media coverage in 2017 when it was first seen greeting Ivanka Trump, senior advisor to the U.S President. It also interacted with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Its features like multi-language speech recognition, best resolution camera display on the chest, seamless independent movements, and obstacle detection allow it to interact with the humans. Mitra Robot is was intended to be utilized in banks, hotels, weddings and birthday parties, cinema halls, malls, hospitals, and airports.

Features:

It has a good battery back up of 8 to 10 hours.
It is made up of fiberglass and equipped with a touchscreen.
It interacts with users through facial and speech recognition.
It can move its elbow, shoulder, and finger, allowing it to welcome guests by doing ‘namaste’ and beckoning people.
It is capable of speech synthesis in three regional Asian languages Tamil, Sinhalese, and Hindi.

Mitra’s role in hospital management

Mitra robot has all the features required in the humanoid robot to assist the hospital. Amid COVID can perform incredible roles that cannot be undertaken by human beings. It is majorly used by patients who cannot use the phone. Mitra can be used to perform the following tasks in a hospital:

Screening – With the help of advanced computer vision, it can do precise thermal screening in a few seconds and ask relevant questions.

Registration – It can collect patient’s info over voice and can also cross-verify it. Used for this purpose, it can help reduce the risk by narrowing healthcare workers’ exposure.

Family connects – It has the display on its chest that allows the patients to connect to their friends, relatives, and doctors who cannot access the ward.

Feedback– It can record feedbacks given by customers, which can help in future analysis.

Tele-consultation – Mitra can actively interact with patients and set up a remote consultation with doctors.

Employing this humanoid robot cost 1 million rupees ($13,600) to the hospital, according to Yatharth Tyagi, director of the company that runs the hospital.

This robot is motivating patients to keep a positive approach and helping in their speedy recovery.

“I feel connected to my family; we mostly discuss my health. I am feeling a lot better now,” says Makhanlal Qazi, retired government Bureaucrat suffering from COVID-19.

Leading hospitals like Fortis, Appolo, and Phoenix hospital are already using Mitra to fight back in the pandemic.