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Humanoids
Why is it in news?
- Recently the annual International Conference on Intelligent Robots held in Madrid.
Humanoids
- A humanoid is something that has an appearance resembling a human without actually being one.
- Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it is now considered rare.
- The term can refer to anything with distinctly human characteristics or adaptations, such as possessing opposable anterior forelimb-appendages (i.e. thumbs), visible spectrum-binocular vision (i.e. having two eyes), or biomechanic plantigrade-bipedalism (i.e. the ability to walk on heels and metatarsals in an upright position).
- Science fiction media frequently present sentient extraterrestrial lifeforms as humanoid as a by-product of convergent evolution theory.
- A humanoid robot is a robot that is based on the general structure of a human, such as a robot that walks on two legs and has an upper torso, or a robot that has two arms, two legs and a head.
- A humanoid robot does not necessarily look convincingly like a real person, for example the ASIMO humanoid robot has a helmet instead of a face.
- An android (male) or gynoid (female) is a humanoid robot designed to look as much like a real person as possible, although these words are frequently perceived to be synonymous with humanoid.
- Similarly to robots, virtual avatars may also be called humanoid when resembling humans.
Source
The Hindu,Wikipedia