India First Humanoid Robot “Mitra” launched At GES 2017

Mitra The Humanoid Robot that Greeted Prime minister Narendra Modi And Ivanka Trump at the inaugurations of the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) Has been developed by a Bangalore based start up Invento Robotics. Made of Fibre-reinforced plastic, The five Foot tall humanoid is capable of face and speech recognition and can interact with human being smartly. Invento Robotic, which researched and built the Robot, sell and rents out its robots for events and function. The company was founded by Balaji Vishwanathan in 2016 and Mitra was developed about eight month ago. You can deploy these robots at banks, airport, hospital, anywhere that has a good deal of customer interaction. Mitra can automate your opening an account, typically you had to stand in a queue at a counter, fill in form and give photograph to open your account and get a passbook. Mitra will greet you take a photo, Aadhaar card detail etc. The Humanoid also has a touch screen on its chest which can be used to interact where speech is not possible. It can also understand multiple languages. The mobile phone revolution which caused almost everyone in India to own a handset, there will be a revolution in the use of Robot too. It envisages that in the near future, robots will be everywhere cleaning our homes, assisting in offices as well as being tour guides. At the moment it would cost at least Rs 30,000 to rent Mitra for a day .the cost would differ based on the requirements of the client. It provides contextual information to customer using a recommendation engine similar to what Facebook and Google use for their services.