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Face Mask Detection Robot

                  These robots roam freely among humans and detect faces without masks. They are specially
                  deployed during COVID-19 pandemic and proved very useful.


























                  Robots in Space and Research

                  Robots play an important role in space and research programmes. Robots are sent to space
                  because sending a robot in space is much cheaper than sending a human. They don’t need to
                  eat or sleep. Hence, they can work for long hours and they can survive in space for many years

                  and can be left out there for further research. Robots can do a lot of things that human can’t.
                  Some can withstand harsh conditions, like extreme temperatures or high levels of radiation.
                  Some of the very successful NASA’s robots are:






                                                             •  Mars Rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity.






                     •  A-PUFFER which is short form for Autonomous Pop-
                      Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot, is capable of flattening

                      itself out and duck down to investigate tight spots.





                                                            •    The BRUIE  robot  can  float  on  the  water  and  roll  its
                                                             wheel  along the  underside of an  icy surface  while
                                                             taking pictures and collecting data. This would be used

                                                             in future to search sign of life on icy bodies elsewhere
                                                             in the solar system.


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