The Emirates Airlines passenger flight route Dubai – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has recently received a special friend. Special because the friend is not human but a sophisticated robot called Ibn Sina.
Ibn Sina is a robot scientist’s creation in United Arab Emirates and was mentioned as one of the most advanced humanoid robot in the world. He can recognize faces and be able to speak Arabic with people.
Accompanied by one of the creators, Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis who is an assistant professor in the United Arab Emirates University College of Information Technology, the robotic flights as passengers enjoy first-class.
Of course, the presence of the robots made passenger aircraft was both surprised and pleased. Ibn Sina form of human-like make him look like ordinary passengers even have to be led by a wheelchair. Ibn Sina flew to Saudi Arabia to attend an educational exhibition.
As quoted detikINET from DailyMail, Wednesday (10/2/2010), the Emirates are proud to bring claims of Ibn Sina. Even in the future, it is not impossible these robots will more often be a passenger plane.
| Title | : | Sophisticated robot “Ibn Sina” traveled with aircraft |
| Category | : | Robotics News. |
| Tags | : | arabic robot, ibn sina robot, |
The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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