What to know about the 6 feet female igbo character-robot that can speak over eight major languages
Africa’s first humanoid robot has been built by a Nigerian company, Uniccon Group.
Platforms Africa reports that the human look-alike and act-alike robot is called Omeife, an Igbo name.
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Background Information
Somewhere in Mabushi, a crossroad area between the inner and outer districts of Abuja, Nigeria, Uniccon Group, a two-year-old Nigerian technology firm, has built a humanoid: a 6-foot-tall multilingual human-like robot called Omeife.
From an idea that was conceptualised in 2020 to a back-and-forth construction—slow wins and quick-succession learning—that stretched across two years, Omeife, built as a female Igbo character that understands and speaks eight different languages, is now a product ready to meet the world.
Powered by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms developed in-house by the company’s team of scientists, Omeife has a deep understanding of African culture and behavioural patterns.
Speaking about the project, Chuks Ekwueme, who founded the company in 2020 and serves as its CEO, was quoted by TechCabal to have revealed that the humanoid also has a real time understanding of its environment including active listening and the ability to focus on a specific conversation thread as it’s happening.
“It’s not just multilingual, it has the ability to switch languages and interact with specific gestures—hand illustrations, smile and other bodily gestures—that match the tone of the conversation,” said Ekwueme.
It was built as 6 feet female igbo character.
