المملكة: Increased interactive screens and robots in preparation for the last ten days

The bundle of digital enrichment paths, smart applications and advanced robots, launched by the Presidency of Religious Affairs in the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque since the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan, witnessed a wide turnout from the intentions and visitors of the Two Holy Mosques. These technologies have contributed to providing an integrated religious experience for hundreds of thousands of visitors, through a modern and advanced legal and guiding content.
The head of religious affairs at the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque, Sheikh Dr. Abdul Rahman Al -Sudais, stressed that the presidency is continuing to promote digital transformation, by increasing the number of interactive screens and smart robots during the last ten days of Ramadan, due to the expectation of the high number of intended and visitors.

Driving enrichment sectors

He pointed out that the presidency is working on digitizing and automating the direct enrichment sectors, through smart applications and robots supported by artificial intelligence, such as “a beacon robot”, which aims to provide legal and guidance information in several languages, in a way that keeps pace with smart digital transformations, and enhances the delivery of the central mission message to the world with the latest technologies.
He explained that “Robot Manara” represents the icon of artificial intelligence in the Two Holy Mosques, as it contributes to answering the inquiries of the intended, and is an advanced cognitive beacon that harnesses smart technologies to serve visitors, which embodies a pioneering model in the use of artificial intelligence to provide religious information in modern and effective ways.

Sharia and guidance services

This success comes as an extension of the presidential efforts in promoting digital services, and harnessing the latest technologies to provide advanced legal and guidance services, facilitating the performance of the rituals and enriching the religious experience of visitors and pilgrims.
Interactive screens, global electronic readers, simultaneous translation devices, and artificial intelligence robots have contributed to providing integrated legal content, allowing those intended to access instructions and information easily, and gave more smoothness and technology to the experience of visitors.

Digital transformation

In this context, interactive screens provided various legal content in several languages, which enhances visitors’ experience, and provides them with advanced smart services that are in line with the Kingdom’s 2030 vision in digital transformation.
The wise leadership also paid great attention to the development of these technologies, to ensure the comfort of the two visitors and visitors of the Two Holy Mosques, through an integrated system of digital services that contribute to facilitating access to legal content in innovative and modern ways.