Wednesday, September 18, 2019

MIA-1 Humanoid Robot | Built by Students of Britania University Cumilla


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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