1. SOPHIA-The
Robot
By- Manjari Porwal

2. INTRODUCTION
•SOPHIA, First Citizen Robot of
the World.
•Humanoid Robots
•Artificial Intelligence
•Technology
•Society

3. Who/What is SOPHIA
• Sophia is a social humanoid robot.
• It was developed by the Hong Kong-based
company Hanson Robotics.
• Sophia was activated on February 14, 2016.
• It made its first public appearance in mid-March
2016.
• It made its appearance at South by Southwest

4. DESCRIPTION :-
1.Attractive Female Face.
2.Face Recognizing Eyes.
3.Skin made up of Silicone.
4.Perform 62 facial expressions.
5.Electronic Synthetic Voice System.
6.Ability to learn from the experience.
7.Familiar with culture, customs, emotions, feelings
and linguistic styles.

5. ADVANTAGES
As she has AI, she can generations for millions of
years.
As she can feel emotions, it will help her to
understand people’s feelings better.
She can be an encouragement to people who are
depressed.
She can be helpful in investigation.
She can help people do great things.
She can be a business robot.

6. DISADVANTAGES
 They can replace jobs of people
leading to unemployment.
 If they take over middle class
citizens’ jobs, then our economy will
be negatively affected.
 It can lead to laziness among people.

7. Sophia marks the beginning of new era in humanity.
Sophia’s debut is gaining worldwide repercussion because it
is a robot with some remarkable human psychological
features.
These new advances in AI are causing commotions.
Sophia is a good evidence that the human mind is not only
feasible to be mapped and imitated by machines, but even to
be overcome.
David Hanson designed Sophia to be a suitable companion