Sara the Saudi robot has been welcoming visitors to LEAP23, using a local dialect.
According to a report by the Saudi Press Agency Sara is the first robot to use the Saudi dialect.
Sara has been welcoming visitors to the Kingdom’s Digital Pavilion at the LEAP23 conference in Riyadh.
Sara the Saudi robot
LEAP23 is being staged at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre and has seen massive investment in the technology sector in the Kingdom.
More than $9bn in technology investments were announced on the sidelines of the LEAP23 event on its first day, but Sara is attracting attention away from the big money deals.
Sara was manufactured in cooperation between Saudi Digital and Qss Company and can communicate with visitors, interact with them, perform popular dances and even respond to queries.
A built-in camera uses artificial intelligence to recognise when people standing in front of the robot. It will start a conversation when a visitor welcomes it with the phrase “Hello Sara”.
Sara contains a pre-trained model that recognises different dialects from within the Kingdom, analyses sentences and understands their content, then provides the appropriate answer and sends it in the form of text.
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