That the Parliament congratulates Heriot-Watt University on its success in the Amazon Alexa Prize; notes that a group of seven Heriot-Watt Mathematical and Computer Science PhD students and two faculty advisers finished an impressive third in the global final of the competition for university students, which is dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational artificial intelligence; believes that the team’s success exemplifies that the university and Scotland are at the forefront of the development of artificial intelligence and robotics; understands that Heriot-Watt was the only UK team to reach the final and that it beat fierce international competition from the likes of Harvard and Princeton to do so; highlights that, during the course of the competition, thousands of Alexa customers put the software to the test by conversing with the three finalists’ socialbots on a host of popular topics and gave their feedback based on whether the conversation flowed naturally and the technology was up to the task; recognises that the Heriot-Watt’s Alana software came second for average length of coherent and engaging exchange and, on the final day of public testing, gained the highest average rating of all the teams; congratulates the Heriot-Watt students on winning $50,000, and wishes them well in their future studies.