US technology company FotaHub, Inc. has decided to invest in the first Moroccan humanoid robot, Shama, developed at the Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech.
FotaHub, Inc. will provide the researcher at the origin of the project, Hajar Mousannif, one million dirhams in order to design a 2.0 version of Shama.
A convention was signed on January 13 to this effect by President of the Cadi Ayyad University, Pr Moulay Hassan Hbid and FotHub CEO Abdelghani El-Kacimi.
The collaboration will make it possible to initiate projects aimed at accelerating the convergence between the world of connected objects and that of AI, according to El-Kacimi.
"We built Shama, the Moroccan robot, out of almost nothing, and now Shama will gracefully move to Shama 2.0 thanks to FotaHub Inc. an exceptional young company in the United States," said Hajar Mousannif professor and coordinator of the Master Data Science, of the computer science department at the Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University.
In December, Mousannif was announced as the winner of the 2020 golden WomenTech Global AI Inclusion Award.
