{"id":14002,"date":"2023-08-15T08:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14002"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:35:55","slug":"what-is-pibot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-pibot\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Pibot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pibot<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>world\u2019s first humanoid pilot<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>can fly an aeroplane<\/strong> just like a human pilot <strong>by manipulating all the single controls in the cockpit<\/strong>, which is designed for humans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It combines artificial intelligence and robotics technologies, <strong>can process the natural language of the flight manual<\/strong> and <strong>control the flight\u2019s operation in real-time.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pibot <strong>can control its arms and fingers<\/strong> <strong>to dextrously operate flight instrument<\/strong>s, even with severe vibration in an aircraft, using high-precision control technology.<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>external cameras allow Pibot to monitor the current state of the aircraft<\/strong> and the <strong>internal ones help it manage essential switches<\/strong> on the control panel.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>capable of memorizing global flight charts<\/strong> to conduct mistake-free flight missions on any air route.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>can memorise aircraft operation and emergency manuals<\/strong> (QRH, an in-cockpit manual for the flight crew to refer to in case of in-flight problems) <strong>and respond immediately.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The humanoid robot <strong>can also communicate with air traffic controllers and humans in the cockpit<\/strong> using voice synthesis, allowing it to act as a pilot or a first officer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Humanoid?<\/h3>\n<p>A humanoid is a type of robot or artificial entity that resembles a human in its appearance, movement, or capabilities to some degree. The term &#8220;humanoid&#8221; is derived from the words &#8220;human&#8221; and &#8220;oid,&#8221; which means &#8220;resembling&#8221; or &#8220;similar to.&#8221; Humanoids are designed and engineered to imitate human characteristics, both in terms of their physical attributes and sometimes their behaviors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/08\/15\/meet-pibot-the-humanoid-robot-that-can-safely-pilot-an-airplane-better-than-a-human\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Meet &#8216;Pibot,&#8217; the humanoid robot that can safely pilot an airplane better than a human<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pibot is the world\u2019s first humanoid pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}