Sophia
The
first robot citizen with AI
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W
e, humans, are magnificent creatures, however
created. Having started the journey with simple
inventions, from wheels and levers to all sorts
of tools, humans have now come to the stage where they
attempt to create creatures just like them all thanks to that
amazing complex organ “brain”! This could be the peak of
human inventions where they create their own resemblance.
All of this began with the intersection of robotics and the
concept of artificial intelligence (AI), which rose back in the
twentieth century.
‘AI’ is a broad area of Computer Science which focuses on the
creation of intelligent machines which behave like humans.
And ‘robotics’ is the technology dealing with robots; which
are a set of programmable machines carrying out a series
of tasks autonomously. The combination of these two gives
rise to Artificially Intelligent robots and those are the robots
controlled by AI programs.
Sophia is one such artificially intelligent robot and is the first
ever robot to get declared as a citizen!
see the metal cap on top of
her head and it’ll knock you
down! Yes, she’s not human!
Sophia is a robot resembling
both the human body
structure and intelligence,
built by Hanson Robotics. She
was first activated on 19th
April 2015. Her manufacturer
is David Hanson and she is
modeled after the actress
Audrey Hepburn. Apart from
the declaration as a citizen,
she is also the first non-
human to receive the title;
“United Nations development
programme’s
first
ever
Innovation Champion”.
Source: https://www.linkedin.com
Who really is Sophia?
The moment you glance at her, you would only see a beautiful
lady with long brown eyes. But after a careful stare, you’d
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