Named for a medical doctor, the Ibn Sina Robot (seen to the right scowling at a meat-bag) wants to shed his scholarly ways and you know, hang out, make friends, have a bit of fun. The prototype robot is based on a PeopleBot machine from ActivRobots. It features face recognition and language modules that allows it to carry on real-time conversations with its database of friends. The plan is to put the bot on Facebook where according to the BBC: The page will be populated with interactions the robot has with people as well as photos of the time it spends in human company. Its creators hope that embedding it in a social web will give rise to a sustainable friendship can grow up between man and machine. See, Dr. Nikolaus Mavridis and his co-researchers are hoping that
