Alex Omenye
United Nations technology agency is hosting a summit in Switzerland this week, dozens of robots—including some humanoid ones—will take the front stage to demonstrate their ability to assist the organization achieve several increasingly impossible global goals.
The U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals were established in 2015 to better human lives and the environment by 2030, but they are now widely seen as an impossibility.
‘Nadine,’ a social robot that simulates emotions and remembers,’ is one of the robot stars of the International Telecommunication Union event. Nadine has already used these abilities with the inhabitants of senior homes.
The two-day event will come to a close with the first human-robot press conference, which will take place on Friday and feature a panel of robots answering questions from reporters.
The World Food Programme’s HungerMap initiative, which pools data to identify regions at risk of starvation, is just one example of how U.N. organizations are already utilizing AI. Additionally, it is creating remote-controlled trucks to transport aid in dangerous areas.
The ITU unites 193 nations and more than 900 organizations, including academic institutions and businesses like Huawei Technologies and Google.
In addition to allocating the world’s radio spectrum and satellite orbits, it also participates in establishing AI standards.
