Fathima Alkaabi, a 16-year-old come up with her new innovative idea of developing robots that can attend school for sick students. She is helping Ajman becomes the first in the country to have robots attend classes instead of sick students who are not able to come.
Al Kaabi who came up with her first invention at the age of seven. she is known as the UAE’s youngest inventor who received UAE Pioneers Award and first-place winner of the UAE Robotics Olympics.
“It is a robot that attends physically for students who are unable to do so, and it’s targeted specifically for kids with cancer who spend long periods of time in hospitals in their home countries or outside,” Al Kaabi told
“With the help of the school, I was able to bring one (robot) and use it in our school towards developing the prototype I’m working on. We are still working on a mechanism that enables students who are injured or sick to use the one we have currently,” she explained.
An absent student using the robot would be able to control it around the school through a website. The robot includes a screen that projects the student’s face, along with sensors to prevent it from falling off the stairs or bumping into people in the hallway. “There are a few features that use artificial intelligence, which I hope to add in the future,” said the project’s mastermind.
The high school student has developed 12 inventions so far including a Braille printer, photographer robot, a collection solar-panelled bags, a smart wheel that prevents drivers from being distracted and using their phones on the road, an electronic belt for the hearing impaired, and electronic bracelets which are being developed to enhance security at Dubai Expo 2020, among others.
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