{"id":2975,"date":"2023-02-23T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:01:29","slug":"what-is-bio-hybrid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-bio-hybrid-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Bio-hybrid robot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why in news?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A new sniffing robot equipped with a biological sensor that uses <strong>the antennae of locusts<\/strong> could help advance disease diagnosis and improve security checks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Locusts have an acute sense of smell, which the researchers have managed to harness into their bio-hybrid robot, making it far more sensitive than existing electronic sniffers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>On the four-wheeled robot, the researchers placed the insect\u2019s antenna between <strong>two electrodes that send electrical signals<\/strong> as a response to a nearby odour.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Each scent has a unique signature which, with machine learning, the robot\u2019s electronic system can identify.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Bio-hybrid robot\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bio-hybrid robots are those that combine <strong>biological and artificial components<\/strong>, such as electronics and mechanics.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Using biological components can provide benefits such as increased dexterity, adaptability, and energy efficiency.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These rebuilt biological functions in mechanical systems will give a better <strong>understanding of biological designs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an electrode?<\/h3>\n<p>An electrode is a conductor that is used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit. Electrodes are commonly used in electrochemical cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/israeli-scientists-develop-sniffing-robot-with-locust-antennae\/article66477154.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Israeli scientists develop sniffing robot with locust antennae<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio-hybrid robots are those that combine biological and artificial components like electronics and mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2975","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\/2975","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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}