This document discusses Sophia, a social humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics. [1] It provides background on Sophia's creation in 2015, capabilities like facial expressions, and recognition as the first robot citizen of Saudi Arabia. [2] The document also outlines Sophia's features such as vision and speech recognition systems, potential roles, and advantages like use in healthcare while acknowledging disadvantages like job replacement concerns. [3]
This document discusses Sophia, a social humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics. [1] It provides background on Sophia's creation in 2015, capabilities like facial expressions, and recognition as the first robot citizen of Saudi Arabia. [2] The document also outlines Sophia's features such as vision and speech recognition systems, potential roles, and advantages like use in healthcare while acknowledging disadvantages like job replacement concerns. [3]
This document discusses Sophia, a social humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics. [1] It provides background on Sophia's creation in 2015, capabilities like facial expressions, and recognition as the first robot citizen of Saudi Arabia. [2] The document also outlines Sophia's features such as vision and speech recognition systems, potential roles, and advantages like use in healthcare while acknowledging disadvantages like job replacement concerns. [3]
This document discusses Sophia, a social humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics. [1] It provides background on Sophia's creation in 2015, capabilities like facial expressions, and recognition as the first robot citizen of Saudi Arabia. [2] The document also outlines Sophia's features such as vision and speech recognition systems, potential roles, and advantages like use in healthcare while acknowledging disadvantages like job replacement concerns. [3]
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Sophia Robot
By : Ibtisam Dawoud & Wafaa Abed Al-lateef
To: Akram Redwan CONTENTS Introduction History Features Public figure Events Advantages Disadvantages Conclusion INTRODUCTION Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong based company Hanson Robotics.
Sophia was activated on April 19,2015.
She made her first public appearance at South by
Southwest Festival in mid-March 2016 in United States.
She was able to display more than 62 facial expressions.
In October 2017, Sophia became a Saudi Arabian citizen ,
the first robot to receive citizenship in any country. HISTORY Sophia was created by Henson Robotics in collaboration with AL developers.
Sophia also imitates human gestures and facial expression
and is able to answer certain questions and make a simple conversation on pre defined topics(e.g. weather).
Sophia uses voice recognision technology from Alphabet
Inc.(parent google company) and is designed to get smarter overtime.
Sophia has seven robot Humanoid “siblings” who were
also created by Henson Robotics. FEATURES Cameras within sophia’s eyes combined with computer algorithms allow her to see.
She can follow faces ,sustain eye contact ,and recognize
individuals.
She is able to process speech and have conversations using
Alphabet’s Goggle Chrome voice recognisition technology and other tools. FEATURES
The software has been programmed to give pre-written
responses to specific questions or phrases.
Sophia would ultimately be a good fit to serve in
healthcare,customer service,therapy and education. EVENTS This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with citizenship.
Sophia also visited India for the first time in IIT Bombay’s Tech fest on 30 December.
On November 21, 2017 sophia was named the United
Nations Development programme’s first ever Innovation Champion for Asia and the Pacific.
On October 11, 2017, Sophia was introduced to the United
Nations with a brief conversation with the United Nations Deputy Secratery-General,Amina J. Mohammed. Con. In a interview with Business Insider’s chief UK editor Jim Edwards,he predicted it was a step towards “conversational artificial intelligence”.
Sophia also impressed CNBC interviewer,in which she was
interviewed like a human.
Recently on March 21 , 2018 ,sophia addressed a
conference in Kathmandu Nepal as a part of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in Asia. ADVANTAGES Sophia can be used for healthcare sector .
Sophia can solve CBI and FBI cases very easily.
She can be good friend to those children and adults who
feel lonely.
She can be a good teacher in villages and city colleges.
She can be a business robot.
As she has artificial intelligence she can generations for
millions of years. DISADVANTAGES People worry that they will replace jobs.
If they take over middle class citizens jobs our economy
will be negatively affected.
It makes people to become lazy.
REFERENCES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot) https://www.hansonrobotics.com/ Thank you