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Nadeen

a Virtual Human escorts elders

and plays with children

Nadia

Magnenat-Thalmann,

Director of Media Innovation

Institute in Nanyang Technological

University has invented a humanoid

robot (Nadeen) or called virtual human

can escort elders and plays with children.

Nadeen is a new type of humanoid robot

with brown hair, soft skin and kind face.

The scientists hope that Nadeen will

escort old people and children and assist

old people who suffer dementia.

Nadeen has been made similar to the

researcher invented it who has spent

almost 30 years in her professional life in

researches for manufacturing humanoid

robots or so –called virtual humans.

Nadeen –humanoid robot with assistance

of software programs to express different

emotions and to tell stories but it has not

been yet commercially offered. However,

the inventor, Thalmann hopes that day

will come in which such robots are used

to escort older people who suffer form

dementia.

She said that if those ill people left alone,

then their mental conditions will be badly

deteriorated, therefore, they are in need

for communication continuously. She

also added that Nadeen-humanoid robot

can make a dialogue and tell stories and

also it can play simple games.

Thalmann and her team work to develop

an emotional robot is able to play with

children. The project is still in the early

stages and no model has been yet

produced. She said that little robot will

be able to answer questions, to express

emotions and to know people in

addition, it is a social escort, it will

be bale to take care of children

in absence of parents and

to inform parents or

nuns in case of

any problems.