Khaled el Fakharany(Egyptian)

Robotic Personality

As children we are taught that feelings can only be present in humans or animals but we never considered robots . Khaled el Fakharany saw the possible in the impossible, he believes that humans think they only have the right to express there emotions when in fact the artificial intelligence today proves them wrong.

From the age of 6 when Khaled first received his robotic kit to make a car and he was fascinated and inspired to make his own model, he joined the World Robotics Olympics at the age of 15 and proved himself by making the first robot to detect the user’s mood using a brain activity reader , if the user is sad or depressed the robot automatically cheers him up with finding an item or an object he loves like a teddy bear for a child. He won second place in Egypt and 1st place in the Arabian Semi-finals.

“The deep connection between robots and humans exceeds logic and emotion” he said with great determination before the next competition. Khaled always found new ways to enhance his robots artificial intelligence , in 2013 Khaled entered  an international  university competition called National Instruments while he was still in high school he ranked in 9th place world wide . He made a robotic submarine which can fix oil drillers in the sea without risking any human lives.

“People think a robot is just a stupid piece of metal with no thoughts of its own, a robot is like a child , you feed him data and he develops it to adjust with the circumstances around him “ he explained with great passion.Khaled el Fakharany a 20 year old student in Nile University who invented many robots to help people with basic and complex tasks , such as the robotic painter .

Many workers get lead poison through inhaling paint and toxic gas when painting a ship or even a wall , so the robotic painter automatically measures the barriers needed to be painted and paints it with great technique and without putting any human lives in dangerous circumstances.

Some people attack the robotics industry by saying how it seeks to replace humans in the workplace and in Japan they even replace humans in social gathering and sports , robots now have their own sports league , education, health and even in entertainments business , but Khaled saw the matter in a different way he explained that humans are crucially needed in various aspects and can not be replaced but in many areas we can not allow human error or the risk of human lives. Surgeons use robotic arms in the field of neurology to ensure precision  but the mind and decision of a surgeon can never be replaced. “Robots and humans need to co-exist together, they are both equally needed” said Khaled.

“ I refuse to call any robot as it or a thing , each robot has their own identity and their own way of thinking” Khaled added. In a hospital in Korea they place Humanoids (Robots made to look human) in patients’s bedroom to cheer them up and motivate them to beat cancer, the patients talks about his life and the robot responds like any human being and in fact even better as its programmed to find solutions for any problem any patients face. “This humanoid is very complex as its program has hundreds of thousands of codes to mimic the human brain and human responses , this shows how the brain is the most complicated and magnificent organ in the world” added Khaled.

“Most importantly we must raise our horizon and our imagination to expect the robotic revolution to come” said Khaled with great passion,Khaled believes that one of the main problems we face as a 3rd world country is our ignorance on the importance of scientific research and development , although some people might see technology as a luxury this country can’t afford he discussed how its the only way we can become a fully developed country and this will only happen if the Egyptian people are aware and up to date with the breakthroughs of science that happens every minute .Khaled el fakharany is a true genius in the robotics field he wishes to enhance this field in Egypt and dreams one day of make his country to be the centre of the robotics industry and excel the world in every aspect , he believes in the Egyptian engineers and in their potential to concur the industry with just a little funding from the government and imagination.