Summary:
In 2017, the robot was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, and made the United Nations Development Programme’s Innovation Champion for Asia and the Pacific. Albeit her maiden visit to the city, this is by no means Sophia’s first to the country. She is the work of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics in 2015, manufactured to be media-savvy with exceptional conversational skills. Endowed with 62 kinds of human-like expressions/emotions, she has also been given the gift of mobility at the start of this year. She had earlier made a sari-clad appearance at IIT-Bombay’s annual techfest in December last years, where she called for collaborative coexistence between humans and robots..