A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes. In general, humanoid robots have a torso, a head, two arms, and two legs, though some humanoid robots may replicate only part of the body, for example, from the waist up. Some humanoid robots also have heads designed to replicate human facial features such as eyes and mouths.
Androids are humanoid robots built to aesthetically resemble humans.
Top 4 (AI) Humanoid Robots
Sophia
Sophia is a
social humanoid robot developed by the Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics.
Sophia was activated on February 14, 2016
And made her first public appearance in mid-March 2016 at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, United States.
Sophia is marketed as a "social robot" who can mimic social behavior and induce feelings of love in humans.Sophia has been covered by media around the globe, and has
participated in many high-profile interviews. In October 2017, Sophia was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, becoming the first robot to receive legal personhood in any country.
In November 2017,
Sophia was named the United Nations Development Programme's first Innovation Champion, and is the first non-human to be given a United Nations title.
According to founder David Hanson, Sophia's source code is about 70% open source.
A paper describing of one of Sophia's open-source subsystems, called "Open Arms",
was submitted to 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022).
Nadine
Nadine is a gynoid humanoid social robot that is modelled on Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. The robot has a strong human-likeness with a natural-looking skin and hair and realistic hands
Nadine is a socially intelligent robot which returns a greeting, makes eye contact, and can remember all the conversations had with it.
It is able to answer questions autonomously in several languages,simulate emotions both in gestures and facially, depending on the content of the interaction with the user.
Nadine has been programmed with a "personality", in that its demeanour can change according to what is said to it.
Nadine has a total of 27 degrees of freedom for facial expressions and upper body movements. With persons it has previously encountered,
it remembers facts and events related to each person
It can assist people with special needs by reading stories, showing images, put on Skype sessions, send emails,
and communicate with other members of the family.
Geminoid
Geminoid DK is a realistic android designed
for research into human-robot interaction.
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR and Kokoro Co. Ltd. developed a realistic humanoid called Geminoid-DK.
It has involuntary muscle movements and breathing activity like a human.
In particular people's emotional responses when they face an android representing another person.
All of the movements and expressions of Geminoid DK are remotely controlled by an operator with a computer,
who uses a motion-capture system that tracks facial expressions and head movements.
Nadine has a total of 27 degrees of freedom for facial expressions and upper body movements. With persons it has previously encountered,
it remembers facts and events related to each person
It can assist people with special needs by reading stories, showing images, put on Skype sessions, send emails,
and communicate with other members of the family.
Erica is an AI-powered virtual assistant that uses predictive analytics and cognitive messaging to help Bank of America's
clients make smarter banking decisions.
Erica was created byHiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University.
She is one of the most intelligent humanoids developed in Japan with a special
emphasis on her speech capabilities.
Erica cannot walk, she can easily interact with human beings and change her facial
expressions according to the conversation.
It understands natural language, has a synthesized human-like voice,
and can display a variety of facial expressions.
