Two students
from Britannia University (BU) in Cumilla built a humanoid robot named MIA-1.
The Britania University is a popular private university in Bangladesh, the
campus is located in Paduar Bazar, Bishwa Road, Cumilla.
This year
three students from the Cumilla University have created another Robot. Now two
students from a private university have successfully built another robot.
The students are
from the BU of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department that has built
this humanoid robot. They are second-year student Ashrafur Rahman Minhaj and
third-year student Mahmuda Afreen. The team Leader was Ashrafur Rahman Minhaj. Mentor
was the lecturer of the CSE department of Britania University, Mr. Masum
Bakaul.
The team claims
that MIA-1 it is the country's first open-source humanoid robot. It is named
after the initials of Minhaj and Afrin. The cost of making the robot was only forty
thousand taka and it took two and a half months to build it. The MIA-1 robot
can hear and answer the questions. There is no need to give any command using a
Smartphone.
On 17
September 2019, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Cumilla district Mr. Abul Fazal
Mir inaugurated the meet up ceremony with MIA-1 on the Britania University
campus. Vice-Chancellor of the university Dr. Tofail Ahmed presided over the
ceremony.
Team leader said
that the MIA-1 has a seven-inch touch screen LCD monitor at its base. Using
this screen a user can easily command the robot to gather information from him.
After asking question MIA-1 will answer and will show related pictures on the
LCD screen.
The robot can
see using a sophisticated camera which has been installed in the eyes of the
robot. The robot is capable of teaching and reception also.
Bangladeshi
students are very meritorious. Students of different universities are making
different types of robots every year. On December 2018, in the Digital World
expo, Dhaka the manufacturer of Humanoid robot ‘Sophia’ said that Bangladeshi
developers can build modern robots like using its software. The founder and
chief executive officer of Hanson Robotics David Hanson said, “All of our
software is placed on open platforms and Bangladeshi developers can use those
resources if they want to build robots”.
Now the government,
technology research centers, persons, teachers, students and teams in our
country need to be gathered in one platform to further enhance the research
works.
Source:
bd-pratidin
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