BREAKING:BORNO STUDENTS BUILD ROBOT

 

A team of secondary school pupils from Borno State has unveiled a homegrown humanoid robot teacher designed to teach children in hard-to-reach and crisis-affected areas of the Northeast.


The prototype, named "Max Zulum" after Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, was displayed on Tuesday at the graduation ceremony of the "Empowering Ideas, Empowering Communities" Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp and Data-Analytics Fellowship in Maiduguri, marking the end of a six-month training funded by Maxzeeton Technology and supported by Borno State Information and Communication Technology Development Agency, BICTDA.


The students, drawn from six schools, were trained in coding, robotics, AI and data analytics before collaborating to build the robot. The Managing Director of Maxzeeton Technology said after six months of intensive training, the students turned theory into a functional prototype that can support pupils at home and in class, adding that 100 youths have also been onboarded into Data Analytics, AI and Robotics Fellowship.


BICTDA Executive Secretary, Engr Kabir Wanori, said the digital transformation agenda is about building talent that solves real-world challenges, describing Max Zulum as first of many locally-crafted solutions for education, agriculture, health and industry, with plans to expose students internationally.


One of the developers, Al-mustapha Kabir Matazu, said the robot stands about 1.2 metres tall, with a chest display screen and speaker-microphone for two-way interaction. Powered by a custom AI engine, it recognises spoken questions, responds verbally, displays step-by-step visual solutions in primary-level maths and science, and adapts pace to learner response.


Another participant, Fatima Abdulrahman, who won the bootcamp innovation award, said the experience showed her technology can keep children learning even when classrooms are unsafe. The innovation is expected to address teacher shortage, as Borno has average learner-to-teacher ratio of 46 to 1, with peaks of 124 per teacher in remote conflict-affected schools according to UNICEF reports.

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