Humans.and.Robots.

Thank you Associate Prof. Dr. Hanafiah Yuss of for accepting me to be your student, way back in 2011. It was an honour working with such an inspiring supervisor, who continues to guide and support me even after my PhD completion. May Allah swt grant you all the success in this world and the hereafter. Amin.

Assalamualaikum Dear everyone, As an academician/researcher, I always have this strong notion to make the university a close partner to the community as much as possible. Apparently, this idea is not only shared by many but also by our beloved former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as I had found in an article published on 7th September 1996. Source: library.perdana.org.my  One of our programs for 2016 at the Department of Robotics and Automation, FKP UTeM is to conduct a hands-on training with primary school teachers. The ripple effect resulting from this is the foundations of setting up a Robotics Club at the particular school. Thus, on 14th April 2016 recently our department had successfully organized such program with 3 teachers from SK Kota Kulai II, Johor. Here are some of the pictures taken during the one-day workshop: Our trainer for the day: Dr. Ahmad Yusairi Bani Hashim. Kudos for the expertise and passion Dedicated school teachers ...

Assalamualaikum time flies so fast and April is here again. Alhamdulillah, on 31 March 2016 the Permata Kurnia Centre in Sentul was officially launched by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. On the other hand, many interesting events have been lined up by NASOM in conjunction with the Autism Awareness Month 2016. April 1st - 3rd Persidangan Kebangsaan Autism (PEKA) April 1st - 10th Festival Seni Kraf & Seni Persembahan Autisme April 9th - Aqua Olympics April 10th - Autism Film Fest & Media Literacy Seminar And on 22nd May, the annual event ' NASOM Walk for Autism 2016 ' will take place at Mutiara Damansara.  Nasom is thrilled to announce that we will be targeting 5,000 participants that will be joining us for an annual walk event. The objective is to promote awareness for autism and raise fund for our cause towards the well being of children with autism. Registration is Rm50 only for each participant. Kindly make ...

hello everyone! My husband went to Tokyo recently and had the opportunity to meet Aldebaran's Pepper and a new robot called RoboHon: a new smartphone robot that can talk, walk and dance besides other regular features of a telephone. It is so awesome! This little humanoid-robot-smartphone can send/receive email, download apps, walk, sit down, dance, identify people through facial recognition, take photos, play music and many more! RoboHon's price has not yet been released, in case you are thinking of buying it :)