There are lots of reasons to design amazing robots like Sophia, Han, Einstein and the other Hanson Robotics robo-characters. To begin with, they create exciting and unique interactions for people. These robots can...
Archive - November 2018
Hanson Robotics Founder: Caring about AI That Cares About Us
Originally published on September 7, 2018 Thomson Reuters — As Hanson Robotics founder and CEO David Hanson sees it, compatibility and empathy are core elements to successfully integrating AI technologies...
David Hanson on How AI and Robotics Can Enhance Humanity
Originally published by Barclays Investment Bank on November 1, 2018. The Founder & CEO of Hanson Robotics, David Hanson Ph.D. describes how humanizing robots is necessary to create positive relationships with our...
Realistic Human-like Robots for Treatment of ASD, Social Training, and Research
ABSTRACT This paper describes results from preliminary psychology experiments, which indicate that people (both children and adults) with autism or ASD accept realistic human-like robots, are not afraid of such robots...
How People Naturally Describe Robot Behaviour
Abstract – Existing novice robot programming systems are complex, which ironically makes them unsuitable for novices. We have analyzed 19 reports of robot projects to inform development of an ontology of critical...
Upending the Uncanny Valley
Abstract Although robotics researchers commonly contend that robots should not look too human-like, many art-forms have successfully depicted people and have come to be accepted as great and important works, with...
How Sophia Copies Human Facial Expressions by CNNStyle
Originally published by Stephy Chung at CNN Style on November 2, 2018 CNNStyle — The field of robotics is fast-growing. Robots can now perform complicated movements with elegance — back-flipping...