Sophia is a social humanoid robot created by Hong Kong-primarily based organization Hanson Robotics. She has grow to be a media darling, appearing on main media outlets about the globe, even gracing the cover of a single of the best style magazines.
With Saudi Arabia honouring it with a citizenship in October 2017, Sophia entered history books as the very first robot to obtain citizenship of a nation. Apart from that she was named the world’s very first United Nation Innovation Champion by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and will have an official part in functioning with UNDP to market sustainable improvement and safeguard human rights and equality.
The summit is set be launched and addressed by Sophia, mentioned Dr Sidhic A Muhammed, managing director of Abrim International Consultants, the organisers of the summit, at a media gathering in Muscat.
The two-day summit will go over applications of blockchain technologies, artificial intelligence, digital marketing and advertising technologies and tools and innovations and inventions to cope with altering globe exactly where technologies is going to rule the globe, the organisers stated. The summit is organised by Abrim, an Indian primarily based organiser of trade expos, in collaboration with Omani firm National Technology & Services, which is founded by Dr Sharif al Bakry, Dr Waleed al Sulaimani and Said bin Hilal al Ismaily.
Information Source: Muscat Daily