Rocking with robots

Young minds: (From left) Lim, Wong and Yong built a deep-sea mining robot using Lego Mindstorms. — KIT WONG YUEN CHEK

By all accounts, robotics and artificial intelligence are the wave of the future, as many commercial companies are increasingly interested to employ robots in the workforce.

In the near future, you could walk into a telecommunications outlet or a bank and be greeted by a cute robot, says Dr Hanafiah Yussof,  associate ­professor and head of centre of excellence for Humanoid Robot and Bio-Sensing at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Mara.