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GENEVA, July 5 (Reuters) - Dozens of robots, including several humanoid ones, will take centre stage at a conference organised by the U.N. technology agency in Switzerland this week to showcase their potential to help it reach a series of increasingly improbable global goals...
Among the robot stars of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) event are those with care-giving skills such as 'Nadine', a social robot which simulates emotions and 'remembers' people - skills it has already put to use with retirement home residents...
"The idea is to showcase their capabilities, opportunities and challenges to start a global dialogue on robotics for good," said Frederic Werner, Head of Strategic Engagement, at the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ahead of the Geneva 'AI for Good' event where up to 5,000 people are expected...
"You have the inflection point where material science, battery life, network connectivity, AI and machine learning, all these things will converge to basically make robotics more accessible than they are now," he said.. U.N. agencies are already using AI such as the World Food Programme's HungerMap project which pools data to identify areas sliding towards hunger..
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