World's first robot citizen Sophia to deliver talk at IIT-BHU on Friday

Sophia is a social humanoid robot, which can display more than 60 facial expressions

World’s first humanoid robot citizen Sophia will deliver a talk and interact with students of IIT-BHU in Varanasi on Friday evening.

The event, being organised as part of the premier Institute’s annual techno-management fest ‘Technex’ during February 14-16, will witness Sophia take impromptu questions from the audience, IIT-BHU dean of students Prof B N Rai told Business Standard on Thursday.

Sophia became the first robot citizen of the world after Saudi Arabia granted her the citizenship in October 2017.

“The event featuring Sophia will continue for nearly an hour,” he said and informed that the humanoid robot was being brought to Varanasi