She'll be interacting with people autonomously in the virtual realm as part of an auction.

Innovations like machine learning that can lead to emotional intelligence along with robots which have the ability to think for themselves and feel like just any other human being, have paved the way for more realistic humanoids playing a larger role in everyday life. Beyond waiters fascinating visitors at cafes and cops patrolling the streets in the UAE, robots are also being marketed as companions for households and tools for teaching essential life skills to children with conditions like autism.

Just when the world had started embracing robots in public as well as private spaces in the latter half of the past decade, Saudi Arabia had made headlines by becoming the first country to grant citizenship to a humanoid called Sophia in 2017. The realistic android which has since displayed abilities as an artist and is being produced on a massive scale in Hong Kong, is now set to take its place in the blockchain universe as an animated character which has been made up of 100 digital tokens.

In her avatar as a constellation of NFTs, the human-like robot is capable of interacting with netizens in a virtual universe autonomously, as part of an online auction that is bound to raise eyebrows globally. Using the blockchain boom, the firm behind Sophia hopes to facilitate millions of interactions taking place simultaneously, to bring human beings and AI closer in a fast-changing world.

The addition of a new dimension to one of the most revolutionary humanoids known to humanity, is crucial when scientists have managed to create Xenobots which are capable of reproducing. Events like Expo in the UAE have managed to demonstrate the potential for integration of robots in our lives, via androids that can guide, entertain and educate people at live events.

Emotional intelligence developed by a researcher in Saudi Arabia with peers in other countries, also promises to enhance art by predicting how people will react to a certain image.