What is Merchi-AI Robot? , It’s the humanoid robot program initiated by Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEIE), Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, In view of promoting robotics and agent technology worldwide. The project carries on under the supervision of Mr. Eranda Jayathunga, the head of the Agents and Robotics lab of Faculty of Engineering University of Ruhuna and currently working as senior lecturer attached to DEIE, Mr. Gaveen Ranabahu le ads the team of 20 undergraduate students from DEIE and DMME (Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering ) having a common passion for the field of robotics. Team Merchi will put its efforts to build a robot having a human- like appearance with artificial intelligence voice recognition and facial recognition, overcoming the difficulties of building an effective system to automatically detect humans with the normal cameras available on the robot and applying computer vision ,designing graphical user in...