Student Mahmoud Kazem Hashem from the University of Basra, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, was able to create a human robot that approaches the image of a human in form and content with high specifications. This is part of the fourth stage graduation project in the College of Engineering - Department of Electrical Engineering. The cost of the robot is only $700, while commercial models on the market cost no less than $10,000.
The project supervisor, Dr. Israa Sabry Abdel Amir, explained that the student Mahmoud spent four years of diligent work to develop a robot that has human characteristics such as interaction, speaking, discussion, memorizing faces, and other distinctive skills, and that this robot project is considered to be in the testing and study phase and within the framework of research work. Artificial intelligence, especially understanding human-robot interaction and its future service and entertainment applications. Human robots have been a basic feature in science fiction films over the years, but they have now become a reality in the third millennium.
We are now in the process of publishing the student’s first scientific research in an accredited American journal with a high impact factor, where it is being used as part of the Artificial Intelligence Passion Project and can be applied in the fields of medicine, learning, and artificial intelligence research services.
We are now working on developing the robot’s skills by adding a human emotion sensor and making it closely resemble a human, as well as equipping the robot with artificial pores and heat flow sensors for artificial sweating (a robot that simulates thermal functions). It is possible to develop it to make it walkable, as walking is a difficult task for a robot, although we have conducted research that simulates the algorithm, but until now we have not created a complete robot, as it is still under development because it was designed to be standard and updatable