Saudi Arabia is seeking to intensify its reliance on robots and artificial intelligence, in the future to a stage in which traffic men will be replaced by robots.
According to Dubai Future Observatory, the Saudi General Directorate of Traffic recently unveiled the new approach to keeping pace with the technology and the use of robots rather than traffic in the Kingdom. "We are not unlikely to employ robotics skills to play roles," said General Manager Mohammed Al Bassami. Traffic police in the Kingdom, as part of the work to raise the level of traffic safety, systems development and the enhancement of technology used ».
In his speech at the opening of the Conference on Traffic Safety, which was hosted by the capital, Riyadh, he said: "Considering the current situation of urban expansion, population growth, expansion of urban development, increasing the number of vehicles and dealing with traffic jams, Analyze their data and use artificial intelligence. "
Saudi Arabia is working on introducing artificial intelligence and robots into the country's joints. In the latest steps to strengthen its new direction, the first robot was hired by the Ministry of Education. The Minister of Education, Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa, »First employee card, early this year. The functions of the automated employee are limited to customer service, through an electronic evaluation system, as well as the receipt of messages to visitors of exhibitions and the activities of the General Organization for Technical and Vocational Training.
In mid-February, Saudi Arabia launched a medical robot to provide patients with satisfactory services to save time and effort. Al Nahdi Medical Saudi Arabia has incorporated the pharmaceutical robot service in its branches, in a move it described as necessary to improve customer shopping. The new automated system delivers medicines to patients in less than 10 seconds. It provides pharmacists time to read prescriptions written by doctors, walk around the shelves, bring medicines for patients who can not wait in long queues. The pharmacist also classifies drugs and distributes them, And monitor their safety and expiration dates, in addition to the management of the store. In Saudi Arabia, which was awarded in 2017, the Saudi nationality of the robot Sophia, has been a symbolic gesture to the future of the city of Newum, launched by Saudi Arabia in the hope that robots will play a central role in the management of the future city.