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Robots that resemble humans are known as humanoids. Robots are being used in industries,
medical science, bionics, scientific research, military, etc. Some examples are:

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is a robotic space mission to study about the
planet Mars (Fig.12.8 (a)).
Mitra is the first Indian-made humanoid that uses artificial intelligence, visual data processing,
facial recognition and also imitates human gestures and facial expressions (Fig. 12.8 (b)).

A drone is an unmanned aircraft which can be remotely controlled or can fly autonomously
through software-controlled flight plans in their embedded systems, working in conjunction
with onboard sensors and GPS (Fig. 12.8 (c)).

Fig. 12.8(a): Rover Fig. 12.8(b): Mitra Fig. 12.8(c): Drone

Drones are being used in many fields, such as journalism, filming and aerial photography,
shipping or delivery at short distances, disaster management, search and rescue operations,
health care, geographic mapping and structural safety inspections, agriculture, wildlife
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monitoring or poaching, besides law enforcement and border patrolling.

12.3 BIG DATA

The term Big Data refers to a huge volume of data that cannot be stored and processed by any
traditional data storage or processing units. Big Data is generated at a very large scale and
used by many multinational companies to process and analyze in order to uncover insights and
improve the business of many organizations.

Social Netwok Data Financial Data Multimedia Data

iPhone

Big Data Analytics

Data from ERP Systems Internet of Things Mobile Apps Data
12.6 Fig. 12.9: Big Data