Meet Nadine, the robot who can one day help seniors

Prof Nadia Thalmann (right) with her AI robot Nadine, who is being developed to be a social robot to accompany the elderly. Photo: Prof Nadia Thalmann

She looks like a human, talks like a human and even emotes like a human. But make no mistake – Nadine, the receptionist at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a robot, albeit the most human-like robot the world has seen to date.

The brainchild of Swiss-Canadian computer graphics scientist Professor Nadia Thalmann, Nadine is a social robot that’s still “very much in development”.