The head of Islamic World Science & Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC) said the Islamic Republic of Iran stood in the first place among Islamic countries in terms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.

According to The Iran Project,Ahmad Fazelzadeh expounded on the outstanding scientific status of Iran in the fourth generation (4G) technologies of the industry and also the rate of the science production in these areas.

The fourth industrial revolution can be regarded as one of the salient achievements in the recent decades that can have many benefits for the businesses, industries and people in society, he emphasized.

This industrial revolution is based on the intelligence, he said, adding that smart equipment and technologies such as the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 3-D printing, communication technologies of the new generation (5-G, robotics, block-chains and drone technology) take the lead in the industrial revolution, Mehr news agency reported. 

The fourth industrial revolution is an emerging reality that would be the source of many changes and developments in the fields of economic, social and educational structures, he added.