ROBOT SOPHIA
- April 4, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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ROBOT SOPHIA
Subject : Current Events
Context : ‘Artist’ Sophia robot’s digital creations sold for $688,888, aims for a music career
Concept :
- Sophia is the first robot citizen of the world after Saudi Arabia granted her citizenship in October 2017.
- She is a social humanoid robot, which using artificial intelligence (AI) programming, can imitate human gestures and facial expressions, and is able to converse on predefined topics.
- It was developed by the Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics and ‘activated’ on February 14, 2016.
- She made her maiden India debut on December 30, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) during its cultural festival TechFest.