"The number of robot citizens in Saudi Arabia was reduced back to zero today after Sophia Robot was beheaded in a public square in Riyadh," the article, which was shared over 120,000 times on ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Meet Sophia: a smart and outspoken… robot. Saudi Arabia on Wednesday made the advanced lifelike humanoid robot a citizen, the first country to grant citizenship to a robot.

It's not clear what rights Sophia has as a robot with citizenship. PRI made an inquiry about this to Hanson Robotics and asked whether Sophia will stay in Saudi Arabia. As of this writing, the company ...

Saudi Arabia caused controversy in October 2017 by conferring citizenship on a robot named "Sophia," who appeared at the Future Investment Initiative event in Riyadh.

Sophia the robot, made by American firm Hanson Robotics, has been officially named a citizen of Saudi Arabia -- the first country in the world to grant a robot the right to citizenship.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia granted citizenship this week to a robot, making it the first known country to do so. The robot, Sophia, appeared on stage in front of hundreds of people at an ...

Sophia, a female humanoid robot, stood at a podium during the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia earlier this week to show off her conversational skills and her awkward facial ...

The robot who was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia in October now wants to take the next human step: having a child. "The notion of family is a really important thing, it seems," the robot ...

A robot with an uncannily human-like appearance recently advanced one step closer to human status, when it was granted citizenship to Saudi Arabia at the tech summit Future Investment Initiative ...

A female robot was given Saudi Arabian citizenship this week, a gesture whose irony triggered a social media backlash that challenged “Sophia’s” elevated status while millions of human ...