"Fedha" as she is called speaks Arabic and asks in a video on Twitter what news viewers want to see. "Fedha is a popular old Kuwaiti name that refers to silver.
We have always imagined robots as silver or metallic in color, so we combined this," says the station's deputy editor-in-chief, Abdullah Boftain. Earlier this year, the news station India Times featured an AI presenter and already in 2018, the state-run news agency New China has used "virtual newscasters"