Bangladeshi developers can build modern robots like Sophia using its software, said the manufacturer of the humanoid robot at a session of Digital World expo in Dhaka yesterday.
“All of our software is placed on open platforms and Bangladeshi developers can use those resources if they want to build robots,” said David Hanson, founder and chief executive officer of Hanson Robotics.
The Hong Kong-based robotics company, which also works on artificial intelligence, developed Sophia one and a half years ago.
Capable of chatting, smiling and even telling jokes as per media reports, the humanoid robot garnered attention around the world recently. It is based on state-of-the-art innovations in artificial intelligence, visual data processing and facial recognition.
Saudi Arabia, a conservative Muslim country, even provided citizenship to the robot, which uses voice recognition technology from Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, and is designed to get smarter over time.
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