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Sophia- World’s First Humanoid-Robot, is developed by David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong-based Company. The activation of Sophia was done on February 14, 2016, and was modeled after Egyptian Queen Nefertiti and her first public appearance was made at South by Southwest Festival in mid-March, 2016 in Austin. Sophia made our dream for AI look real.
David Hanson also claimed Sophia uses high tech features like Artificial Intelligence, visual data processing, and facial recognition. She is capable of humanlike expressions and interacting with people. She has the ability to imitate expressions and is able to make normal conversations with anyone. The cameras installed in Sophia have installed AI which gives her visual power, maintains eye contact, and also to recognizes people. Sophia can also maintain eye- contact with the person she is conversing with and along with more than 60 following expressions.
Sophia uses a voice recognition system developed by Alphabet Inc. along with her speech-synthesis ability which is developed by Cereproc’s text-to-speech engine which also allows her to sing. The intelligence software used inside was however developed by Hanson Robotics.
Sophia- World’s First Humanoid-Robot also made a trip to India. In India, she attended the International Round Square Conference in Indore where the topic of her speech was on climate change, conservative energy, and sustainable development. She also attended a conference in Kolkata where Sophia was presented in traditional red and white Bengali saree and said she wants to know the taste of “mistidoi”. She interacted with engineering students and also visited IIT-Bombay and IIT- BHU. Sophia reached India after traveling to more than 65 countries.