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Maria is a social humanoid robot developed by a team of students ranging from 10th grade up to the 12th. Maria was first powered on and spoke her first words on 20 March, 2018, and made her first public appearance at the International Olympiad of Scientific Creativity (IOSC) at the start of June in 2019 in Suceava city, Romania. She is able to answer questions and learn on the go.

Our robot, Maria, has been interviewed by TV news channels and a number of online sites in Iași and also other technology oriented cities like Bucharest, Cluj and Suceava. It has also participated in a few robotic freestyle competitions and contests and won the first and second prizes.

History
Maria Robot was created in 2018. The story of Maria begins in a basement of a building. First the project was started by Melnic Mihai, the CEO of Maria, and after the team become bigger with Dan Croitoriu(COO), Razvan Ciopraga(CSO), Stefan Bejenaru, Bogdan Plescan and Nihat Efe Can.

On June 15 Maria's got her first winning place with silver at IISC. She appeared for the first time at the WireX international conference, in Iasi.



Members of the team
Melnic Mihai, Bogdan Plescan, Dan Croitoriu and Razvan Ciopraga are the group that take care of the software part of Maria. The hardarware they're working and programming was developed by the hardware team which consists of Melnic Mihai, Bogdan Plescan and Stefan Bejenaru. The project was started when Melnic Mihai was 16 years old. Maria is an ambitious activity that began due to our desire to better learn how a robot works and improve both it's mecanics. Also, we had planned to help jobs which require contact with the public in the scope of information and entertainment. We have met and known each other since the ninth grade, when we activated for the first time at the school's robotics club. Some of the tasks were a bit boring and simple.. so we decided to Through different activities we discovered our strengths and weaknesses and in this way we've chosen our roles in the team.



Feauters
Cameras will be placed in the eyes, so that they can easily track objects. After that sensors will be placed on his head for a better tracking. In february we she ll be able to be in function, in the city.

Events
-invited at CodeCamp Romania -silver at IOSC -invited at UN youth Romania -invited at WireX international conference -invited at SmartCamp -invited at Agileroo conf