11-Year-Old From Pakistan Builds AI Assistant With Robot Head

Pakistani 11-year-old who recently passed sixth grade has created an AI assistant that can speak through a robotic head. This AI assistant is called Muhammad Ali and he was created by Hasnain as part of his summer project for a free training course in robotics.

Muhammad Ali, the voice-controlled AI assistant robot, can provide recipes, answer questions, and even operate home appliances. Need to play a movie or search online? Muhammad Ali can handle that too. Hasnain told Arab News: 

This is Muhammad Ali, my AI assistant robot. He’s designed with a personality and a face, so you really feel like you’re interacting with another person. It has some extra features such as home automation through which it can control home appliances or open [search] anything on your command. Apart from that, it is also an assistant for me, so if I am making some other projects, it can be helpful there too. 

Hasnain has always been fascinated by science and technology. His passion led him to build a Bluetooth-powered car in 2022 during his summer break. He followed this up with a virtual reality game in 2023. Now, Hasnain has created “Muhammad Ali,” an AI assistant robot.

What sets Muhammad Ali apart from other AI chatbots like GPT, Gemini, and Claude, according to Hasnain, is its unique “personality and face,” something he believes the leading chatbots lack. He also said that this robot is Muslim and Pakistani. Its main goal, according to Hasnain, is to be “kind and helpful.”

Hasnain built the AI assistant robot largely on his own. While his robotics teacher, Shakeel Abbas, helped him obtain the necessary equipment, the design and creation of the robot were all Hasnain’s work, according to Abbas, who runs the institute where Hasnain took the robotics class.