Editing Android (robot) (section)

===United States===
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Dr. William Barry, an Education Futurist and former visiting West Point Professor of Philosophy and Ethical Reasoning at the [[United States Military Academy]], created an AI android character named "Maria Bot". This Interface AI android was named after the infamous fictional robot Maria in the 1927 film ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'', as a well-behaved distant relative. Maria Bot is the first AI Android Teaching Assistant at the university level.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-03-09-the-education-of-an-android-teacher|title = The Education of an Android Teacher – EdSurge News|date = 9 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ndnu.edu/media-center/first-android-teaching-assistant|title=First Android Teaching Assistant at NDNU &#124; Media Center|access-date=15 March 2020|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728055628/http://www.ndnu.edu/media-center/first-android-teaching-assistant/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Maria Bot has appeared as a keynote speaker as a duo with Barry for a TEDx talk in Everett, Washington in February 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tedxeverett.com/william-barry |title=William Barry &#124; tedxeverettcom |access-date=15 March 2020 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728005101/https://www.tedxeverett.com/william-barry |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Resembling a human from the shoulders up, Maria Bot is a virtual being android that has complex facial expressions and head movement and engages in conversation about a variety of subjects. She uses AI to process and synthesize information to make her own decisions on how to talk and engage. She collects data through conversations, direct data inputs such as books or articles, and through internet sources.

Maria Bot was built by an international high-tech company for Barry to help improve education quality and eliminate education poverty. Maria Bot is designed to create new ways for students to engage and discuss ethical issues raised by the increasing presence of robots and artificial intelligence. Barry also uses Maria Bot to demonstrate that programming a robot with life-affirming, ethical framework makes them more likely to help humans to do the same.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://meshconference.com/speakers/maria-bot/|title=Maria Bot}}</ref>

Maria Bot is an ambassador robot for good and ethical AI technology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dxjournal.co/2020/02/mesh-conference-announces-ai-robot-as-keynote-speaker/|title = Mesh conference announces AI robot as keynote speaker|date = 24 February 2020}}</ref>

[[David Hanson (robotics designer)|Hanson Robotics, Inc.]], of Texas and [[KAIST]] produced an android portrait of [[Albert Einstein]], using Hanson's facial android technology mounted on KAIST's life-size walking bipedal robot body. This Einstein android, also called "[[Albert Hubo]]", thus represents the first full-body walking android in history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hansonrobotics.wordpress.com|title=(no title)|website=www.hansonrobotics.wordpress.com}}</ref> Hanson Robotics, the FedEx Institute of Technology,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fedex.memphis.edu|title=FIT – FedEx Institute of Technology – The University of Memphis|website=www.fedex.memphis.edu}}</ref> and the University of Texas at Arlington also developed the android portrait of sci-fi author [[Philip K. Dick]] (creator of ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'', the basis for the film ''[[Blade Runner]]''), with full conversational capabilities that incorporated thousands of pages of the author's works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pkdandroid.org/about.htm|title=about " PKD Android|website=www.pkdandroid.org|access-date=7 August 2009|archive-date=14 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814175623/http://www.pkdandroid.org/about.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2005, the PKD android won a first-place [[artificial intelligence]] award from [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence|AAAI]].