Ibn Sina Robot is joining Facebook, seeks friends
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 6th 2009 5:05AM
posted May 6th 2009 5:05AM
Named for a medical doctor, the Ibn Sina Robot (pictured, scowling at a meat-bag) wants to shed his scholarly ways and you know, hang out, make friends, have a bit of fun. The prototype robot is based on a PeopleBot machine from ActivRobots. It features face recognition and language modules that allow it to carry on real-time conversations with its database of friends. The plan is to put the bot on Facebook where according to the BBC: The page will be populated with interactions the robot has with people as well as photos of the time it spends in human company. Its creators hope that embedding it in a social web will give rise to a sustainable friendship can grow up between man and machine.See, Dr. Nikolaus Mavridis and his co-researchers are hoping that they'll learn to overcome people's reluctance to interact with robots. Hey doctor, here's a hint: try giving your robot a less menacing expression -- perhaps make it female even, with big doeful eyes and a taste for short mini-skirts. Then your robot will have more "friends" looking to interact than she'll know what to do with.
hey man..iran was big country in old age.and abo ali sina (ibn sina) was 1 savant in this contry...now arabian own he...this is a joke...
and iranian not muslim .. are zardosht.....understand........
squeeze me? sphincter said wha?
Arab Robot FTW!!
That's so unfortunate to scientists to accept this robot with name ibn sina...
Every learned person know that ibn sina's dress is like graduating dress, not like this robot's.
EVERY BODY KNOW, IBS SINA IS PERSIAN.
THE GULF IS PERSIAN.
ARABS ARE STEALING PERSIAN'S CULTURE...
hey James why do u say that?
Racial stereotypes?
ffs, the world is bigger than your country, get out and learn yourself some cultures.
This is what millions of people wear, not just a bunch of militants in the mountains.
Those guys are all you've you bothered your fat ass to see of that culture.
And btw, Ibn Sina was a real person, pioneer of modern clinicology.
This is how he really looked. Again, like a lot of people from his time/culture.
i am a arabian man. ibne sina is a Persian Scholar .
Ibn sina was Smart Persian man.
He wasn't an Idiot Arab..
understand it my friends...
BBC resolve the name of ibne sina .