Interactive Robots and Media Lab

The Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) is a research laboratory which is part of the College of IT of the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE.

The laboratory was founded in September 2007 by Dr Nikolaos Mavridis, a PhD holder from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and started operations in February 2008. The main projects underway in the lab (as of December 2009) are two: the Ibn Sina Robot, which is the world's first android which is able to converse in the Arabic language, as well as the Microsoft-funded FaceBots project, which aims towards building robots that can sustain long-term relationships with humans through dialogues referencing shared memories and shared friends, while utilizing and depositing social information on the FaceBook website. Other activities of the lab revolve around human-robot interaction and cognitive systems.

The lab has been featured in regional as well as international news numerous times, on venues such as the BBC,^[1] Agence France Press (AFP),^[2] The UAE National,^[3] Al Jazeera TV etc.

References

^ "Technology | Robot to create Facebook profile". BBC News. 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
^ "‪Roboter aus dem Morgenland - Avicenna spricht Arabisch‬‏". YouTube. 2009-11-07. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
^ 01:41PM - Monday. "Meet the facebots - The National". Thenational.ae. Retrieved 2011-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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[refname1-1] "Technology | Robot to create Facebook profile". BBC News. 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2011-08-08.

[refname2-2] "‪Roboter aus dem Morgenland - Avicenna spricht Arabisch‬‏". YouTube. 2009-11-07. Retrieved 2011-08-08.

[refname3-3] 01:41PM - Monday. "Meet the facebots - The National". Thenational.ae. Retrieved 2011-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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