30 Jan 2019

SOPHIA, The Humanoid Robot


As we all know, the field for AI and robotics is very fast-growing. Now robots can perform movement like- back-flipping, practicing parkour moves, and even classical sculptures.

Sophia is  human-like robot, created by Hanson Robotics. Sophia is very advanced robot. Sophia was first activated on February 14, 2016, and her public appearance at South by Southwest Festival(SXSW) in March 2016 in Austin, Texas, US.
Sophia is able to display more than 50 facial expressions.

The founder of Hanson Robotics, David Hanson said "We're not fully there yet, but Sophia can represent a number of emotional states, and she can also see emotional expressions on a human face as well,"

According to Hanson, Sophia now has simulations of every major muscle in the human face, allowing her to generate expressions of joy, grief, curiosity, confusion, contemplation, sorrow, frustration, among other feelings. She is human-crafted science fiction character depicting where AI and robotics are heading. In other ways, Sophia is real science, springing from the serious engineering and science research and accomplishments of an inspired team of robotics & AI scientists and designers.

"In some of the work we're doing, she will see your expressions and sort of match a little bit and also try to understand in her own way, what it is you might be feeling," says Hanson.

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