iCog Labs

iCog Labs is a software development and research company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, focused on artificial intelligence research and applications. It provides research and development services to international customers, including work in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, machine learning-based data analysis and application software development. The company collaborates with international partners including SingularityNET, the US artificial intelligence firm Novamente, the US bioinformatics firm Biomind, and the nonprofit organisation Humanity+. iCog Labs also runs a blog covering technological, philosophical and social themes connected to its work, and has organised a robo-soccer competition for university students as a community project involving programming humanoid robots.