The all-women robot team made their country proud of a more advanced Afghanistan, and is now frantically looking for a way out of the country to continue to receive artificial intelligence education abroad.

Kimberley Motley, an international human rights lawyer based in New York, told Canadian Broadcasting News That, “These girls are very scared.” Motely is trying to get the girls to go to Canada to complete their studies.

According to Motley, in Herat, where the team is located, they told the girls: “Don’t go back to university.” Women showed up at work but were turned away. When their city was collapsing, they saw this and burst into tears. “

Herat, the third largest city in Afghanistan, was occupied by the Taliban on the way to Kabul, spreading terrorist activities and frantically looking for escaped residents.

The Afghan Girl Robot Team was founded in 2017 by Roya Mahboob, an Afghan technology entrepreneur. She leads the Digital Citizenship Fund, which provides STEM and robotics courses for girls.

The team members ranged in age from 12 to 18 and participated in the 2018 International Robotics Competition. Their project was completed in two weeks instead of the standard four months for other participants. They won the silver medal for “Brave Achievement” in the competition.

The team also created a low-cost, lightweight ventilator for coronavirus patients in 2020. The team took nearly four months to complete the design of the ventilator, which was partly based on the design of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and they also received the guidance of experts from Harvard University.

The team faces war and terror, but still becomes stronger and ready to fight for their love of engineering. During the coronavirus pandemic, they were able to design a low-cost ventilator for hospitals that use auto parts. However, Motley is worried that the Taliban will force them to become child brides-in-laws, thus ending their potential careers in the field of artificial intelligence.