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A twenty-four year old Nigerian, Bobai Ephraim Kato, has built a fully functional artificial intelligence robot for his final year project at the International College of Business and Technology (ICBT) in Sri Lanka.
After his secondary school education in Nigeria in 2009, he wrote JAMB exams twice trying to get an admission into Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria to study medicine, but all to no avail. He couldn’t get into the remedial school at ABU, and Kaduna State University (KASU) did not accept him either. It was not until he started a program at KASU’s remedial school that opportunity presented itself through the NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology) scholarship exam. Kato’s success story took shape over the next four years as he eventually ended up in Sri Lanka and studied Software Engineering.


Kato admits that the idea of artificial intelligence was random. The knowledge he gained from previous classes on Artificial Intelligence Systems set the pace for his work with the robot. His first work with Artificial Intelligence was “Wine Quality Test”, a piece of software which uses artificial intelligence to determine the quality of wine. When the directive came to his class to create software that uses Artificial Intelligence for predictions and solutions, he couldn’t think of anything. It was not until he did some research that the idea of a robot, which could solve puzzles struck him.


A Nigerian Software Engineering student, Kato personally built and developed the algorithm that enabled the robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube in a matter of minutes – a feat he admits to have never achieved himself.
Kato, who hails from the Atyap tribe in Karina said, “ My first 5 tests were a failure. The robot always shot a scanning error, and this was a week to my final submission. All I could do was pray. I didn’t know what to do again. I was confused and restless. I kept grinding and it finally started working. At that stage, the robot wasn’t intelligent enough and I had to train it to solve many puzzles to get more skills to save in the database.”
Kato spent two nights building the robot. After construction, he installed the software which served as the brain into a memory card for testing. A week to Kato’s final submission, the robot was still not functional. It took six tries to get the robot to work, and then a few days to increase its intelligence quotient. It was hard work for Kato, as he could not solve the Rubik’s Cube himself.
In the spirit of giving back, his new focus is on forensic computing, cyber security, and digital investigation, which he hopes to put to full use when he goes back to Nigeria.
“I’m happy to return back to Nigeria as a Cyber Security and Digital forensic Tech,” he says. “If anything, that’s what Nigeria needs more. We need people who are savvy and sincere in Digital Investigation, Cyber Security and Forensic

See d link to the video below

http://hotfixtech..sg/2015/09/a-24-year-old-nigerian-builds.html

Your construction is very poor

wow, thats soo cool...

Congrats to him and keep on making a good name for urself and this country.

Name Checkers Association(NCA)

Touchey:
Your construction is very poor

u fit construct am?

Touchey:
Your construction is very poor

you be winch? This ur bad belle too much abeg

Touchey:
Your construction is very poor

Which one your whole qeneration combined don construct ..........(cuts) Thank God say na Hausa create ahm sef.......... No be igbo or yoruba

ThePeacemaker:
Which one your whole qeneration combined don construct ..........(cuts) Thank God say na Hausa create ahm sef.......... No be igbo or yoruba

I was talking about his grammar

EverestdeBliu:
you be winch? This ur bad belle too much abeg

His sentence construction is poor

Touchey:
His sentence construction is poor

hey don't lie,you actually meant the work. By the way,was the post talking about grammatical construction? Even if it were,the write up above falls in line.

Ok

I advice you not to rush back home, gather enough knowledge about the field of artificial intelligence before coming back to Nigeria. The tools you need to succeed are easily accessible over there in asia especially in China. If you intend leavng Sri Lanka in order to further your area of specialty, I suggest you head to China.

Up Nigeria!!. We r getting there

Nice one . Africans but we no want robot take over like in that will smith movie oo

Touchey:
Your construction is very poor

Fault finder.

Nigeria education is the worst in the whole wide world.

Can he also build a functional brain for the dullard?

Touchey:
Your construction is very poor

Touchey:
I was talking about his grammar

You are to put a full stop after you have made a complete sentence.

If you don't know that, I may be forced to ask the young inventor to build a robot to perform the functions of your brain.

No be Nigerian name na

I was expecting Bolanle or Ahmed.

He sounds middlebeltian....na dem carry Asian name for head. Hand a friend named Gabriel Tang.

Congrats!!! Many more to come. I'll join you guys next year

[quote author=MrMcJay post=38498613][/quote]ok

So creative!

That's good

Good, but not newsworthy.
Kids in the west build this in their basements all the time.

Wow

nice one

nyc development

Good one

nigerians are gifted

Touchey:
His sentence construction is poor

biggest lie of the century . .

agabusta:
He was referring to his grammatical construction. I knew from the onset, and I also knew a lot of people will bash him thinking he was referring to the project. That is nairaland for u. People just bash anyhow without properly understanding the point of view of the poster.

He will continue to progress while people like you will continue analysing his grammatical structure. Albert Einstein was recognized and celebrated by America not because he had the best command of English but because he was intelligent. If this guy studied in Nigeria he would have been branded 'unemployable' by Nigeria. Foreigners will continue to help us value our great minds.

EverestdeBliu:
hey don't lie,you actually meant the work. By the way,was the post talking about grammatical construction? Even if it were,the write up above falls in line.

He was referring to the grammatical construction of the blog. I knew from the onset, and I also knew a lot of people will bash him thinking he was referring to the project. That is nairaland for u. People just bash anyhow without properly understanding the point of view of the poster.