Q Life Magazine Q Magazine December 2018 | Page 44
| Issue 5
MOHAMMED
AL JEFAIRI
A Qatari innovator and finalist on season
nine of Stars of Science – the Arab
world’s leading scientific ‘edutainment’
TV show — was chosen to be one of the
Innovation Showcases for this year’s WISH
summit. He attended to showcase his SeeDo
robot, designed to communicate with
hearing-impaired children, developed under
his company Abilitx.
them as they learn. It has been heartwarming seeing the
joy on these children’s faces as they realise what Robert
the robot can do for them.
How does SeeDo operate?
On the outside, SeeDo looks like a fun and friendly
character with a large robotic hand that can
communicate in all forms of sign language. It can also
display all kinds of useful visual content on its inbuilt
TV screen. On the inside, SeeDo is engineered with
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