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Sophia, a robot that became the world’s first robot citizen [28], is also the first robot that can express feelings. It is a humanoid robot that is the brain-child of the American company Hanson Robotics and was developed in Hong Kong by the head creator David Hanson. The main quality of Sophia is that it understands and learns from human behavior by interacting with people. It looks just like humans, with a face which was designed to look similar to Audrey Hepburn, a British actress. It is her amazing qualities that led the Saudi government to honor her with the first robot citizen of the country at the Future Investment Summit held in Riyadh on October 25, 2017 [29]. Sophia has an attractive female face and her eyes are the camera that can recognize the person and say hello to them by their name [30]. Sophia can make about 62 facial expressions and also has a sense of humor. She keeps on learning and is getting better every day. The gap between humans and robots is decreasing day by day. Sophia is a state-of-the-art humanoid that has changed the robotic world and the day is not far off when there will be no difference between the thoughts of machines and humans.