Chennai Boy Designs Robot That Answers Questions But If You Scold It...

A teenage boy from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, has designed a robot that has emotions. The 13-year-old, who has named his invention “Raffi”, claimed that it can detect feelings as well as answer questions, reported, ANI.

The young inventor, Prateek, has stated that while the robot can answer queries posed to him, it may go silent if scolded. Then, in order to make him answer again, one will have to apologise to the robot. Moreover, Raffi is also capable of detecting emotions and can tell when a person is sad.

“Raffi, my robot, can answer queries. If you scold him, he won't answer your queries until you are sorry. It can even understand you if you are sad,” Prateek told ANI.

In the pictures shared by the news agency on Twitter, Prateek can be seen sitting next to his self-designed small robot.

As Prateek's innovative robot came to light, many lauded the teenager's achievement.

For many, the boy shines hope for a bright future in terms of technological advancement. “​​India has so much talent. In the next 10 years, I see it unfolding as tech will reach the last mile of the entire population giving them the power to learn and develop,” wrote a person.

A person said, “Incredible achievement of the boy deserves all appreciation.” 

A termed the robot a “true talent.”

This user urged that the boy must be appreciated for the hard work he has put in.

One tried to decipher the functioning of the robot. He wrote, “I feel, it has been feed up with data of faces and voices like this is angry face. This is a happy face and also with a voice, so some training might have been done on that. Vision training or something like that. Whatever doing this at 13 is still a big task.”

Many were left amazed to know the capability of the robot.

“Wow.. more power to you boy. Kudos,” another person wrote.

So what do you have to say about the robot?