Question

Q16. Consider the following statements:

1. Brabo is touted as India’s first indigenously made industrial articulated robot for micro, small and medium enterprises.

2. Indore has become the India’s first city where robot is being used on an experimental basis to control its ever growing and unruly traffic.

Which of the above statements are correct?

• A. a) 1 only
• B. b) 2 only
• C. c) Both 1 and 2
• D. c) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer 1

The correct option is C

c) Both 1 and 2

Brabo

• Designed and manufactured by TAL, a Tata Motors subsidiary
• It is touted as India’s first indigenously made industrial articulated robot for micro, small and medium enterprises
• Part of the Make In India drive, it took TAL three years to develop it
• Brabo can handle payloads of up to 10 kg, mapping it to human lifting potential

India’s first city to use robot to control unruly traffic

• Indore has become the India’s first city where robot is being used on an experimental basis to control its ever growing and unruly traffic.
• The traffic police in association with a private engineering college of the city for the first time have installed a metallic robot at a busy MR 9 intersection on an experimental basis to control the chaotic traffic in the locality.