Hanson Robotics · Humanoid · 2016
Sophia, from Hanson Robotics (David Hanson), unveiled in 2016, is the world's most famous social humanoid robot — the machine that became a global icon of AI and, in 2017, the first robot granted honorary citizenship (by Saudi Arabia). At 1,670 mm and 20 kg with 83 DOF (36 in head/neck, 15 per arm/hand, 3 torso, 14 in a mobile base), her expressive face is built from Hanson's patented Frubber actuated skin over 30+ head motors, producing 60+ lifelike facial expressions. She perceives via Intel RealSense eye cameras and a 1080p chest camera for face detection and body tracking, with microphones, audio-localization arrays, arm force sensors, finger touch sensors and an IMU, running on an Intel Core i7 (32 GB RAM, Ubuntu Linux). Her intelligence blends the Hanson AI SDK with OpenCog for general reasoning, decision-tree dialogue and deep-neural-net-driven expressions, with CereProc text-to-speech that even lets her sing. Designed for research, education, entertainment and public discussion of AI ethics, Sophia spawned a family including Little Sophia (STEM education), Albert HUBO, BINA48 and Han. NOTE: full technical breakdown cross-verified from Hanson + IEEE Spectrum + databases — museum-grade for a social humanoid.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Humanoid |
| Sub-type | Social Expressive Humanoid |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2016 |
| Origin | Hong Kong |
| Announced | 2016-02 |
| Released | 2016 |
| Weight | 20 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 83 |
| Camera | Eye cameras + chest camera |
| Chipset | Intel Core i7 3GHz |
| AI model | Hanson AI SDK; OpenCog + SingularityNET; NLP, speech, facial recognition, visual tracking; cloud-connected |
| Operating system | Ubuntu Linux |
| Actuator type | Frubber (patented flesh-rubber elastomer skin) + servos; head: 5 Dynamixel XM430 + 23 Xpert servos |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth |
| Use cases | Research, Education, Entertainment, AI-ethics public engagement, Media |
| Made in | Hong Kong |
