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Iran's robotic technology has attracted a lot of attention. With its second humanoid robot it showed Monday that it could walk across a stage and enact several movements, including "arm gestures and bending backwards".

Called Surena III, the robot was built by a team of researchers at the University of Tehran. The team used the robot to study" challenges in robotics" such as bipedal locomotion and robot-human interaction. The robot can also interact with humans using its vision, voice and speech modules running on custom software based on the Robot Operating System, according to Gizmag.

The robotic technology team wants Surena III to inspire students to take up engineering careers, as it looked at as an icon of Iranian technological achievement "in the direction of peace and humanity," Dr. Aghil Yousefi-Koma, leader of the Surena project, told Spectrum IEEE.

However, robots developed in other countries such as Japan's human companion Pepper, or Yamaha's motorcycle-riding Motobot, still rank higher than Surena III.

Although Surena III can move just 7 inches per second, it uses Microsoft's Kinect sensor for sight and operates on an open source software. Developers of the robot target to convert it into a useful mechanized assistant during disasters.

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