Saudi Arabia granted Sophia the humanoid robot with robot citizenship ahead of the Future Investment Initiative conference. Following is a transcript of the video. This robot just became a citizen.

Sophia, the world-famous robot won hearts at an innovation fair in Zimbabwe this week. Boasting the ability to mimic facial expressions, hold human-like conversations with people, and recognize ...

Sophia isn't your typical robot. The humanoid robot was granted legal citizenship in Saudi Arabia, making Sophia the world's first-ever robot citizen. And after a whirlwind press tour where we had ...

Sophia: I'd like to think I will be a famous ... Do you hope to start a family one day with your own mini-robots? The notion of family is a really important thing, it seems. I think it's wonderful ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Geoffrey Fowler and Joanna Stern interview Sophia, Hanson Robotics’s latest creation, and the chief scientist, Dr. Ben Goertzel, at the Converge tech conference in ...

But how realistic - and desirable - is the prospect of robots that become almost indistinguishable from humans? Sophia is one of the world's most famous robots. Dr Ben Goertzel, who developed the ...

In conjunction with Singularity Studio, the robot resembles the company’s [Sophia] robot which is made to be as realistic as possible given current technology and, apparently, has Saudi citizenship.

Sophia the robot is a celebrity in its own right. It has been on chat shows, given speeches and was even made a citizen of Saudi Arabia. Before I "met" Sophia, I was given a sheet of guidelines by ...