Sophia the robot meets Ethiopian PM
Sophia, the famous humanoid robot, has finally met Ethiopia’s prime minister after her lost body parts were found.
A
bag containing some of the robot was lost at Frankfurt airport last
week, which led to the cancellation of a press conference scheduled to
take place on Friday at the Ethiopian National Museum in the capital,
Addis Ababa.
We don't yet know what was discussed in today's
meeting, but we do know that Sophia isn't pre-programmed with answers.
Instead, she uses machine learning and responds by reading people's
expressions.
Designed by Hong Kong firm Hanson Robotics, Sophia
has been programmed to speak Amharic, Ethiopia's official language. She
also speaks English.
Sophia -the first humanoid robot-today visited HE PM Abiy. He was pleased to hear the brilliant Ethiopia AI developers at @iCog_Labs were part of her dev’t. #Ethiopia will increase support to nurture an innovation eco-system and create opportunities for our best and brightest. pic.twitter.com/RC1aAFYVqu— Fitsum Arega (@fitsumaregaa) July 2, 2018
Sophia was activated in 2015.
She shot to fame after becoming
the first robot to gain the citizenship of a country – when Saudi Arabia
gave her nationality last year.
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