Students program humanoid robot Nova at university in Bogota, Colombia

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - JUNE 14: Students programmed a humanoid robot called Nova at the Universidad de Los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia.The Sinfonia Uniandes team, made up of professors and students from electronic engineering, electrical engineering, systems, mechanical engineering and law from the Universidad de Los Andes, have been working on the project.Juan Jose Garcia, Professor of Electronic Engineering at Universidad De Los Andes and Project Leader Sinfonia Uniandes stated that the SINFONIA project is a student research initiative to encourage research in Artificial Intelligence in Colombia.The university aimed to be pioneers in research in social robotics, that these types of robots serve the community in different spaces.“A PEPPER-type robot is a standard platform robot developed by a Japanese company, which were intended for commercial and domestic use, but what we do is go further, program at a lower level and exploit all the skills in addition to implementing different branches research,” David Ortiz, Systems Engineering and Mechanics Student at Universidad De Los Andes said.The robot called NOVA is currently capable of recognizing faces, objects, interpreting certain words, recognizing words that they have inscribed on it and relating those words to a name, according to Carlos Torres, Mechanical Engineering student at the university. “We are working on the manipulation area so that it can manipulate objects or have dances, for example,” he added. (Footage by Juan David Moreno Gallego/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)