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Hanson Robotics develops the world’s most humanlike robots, endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics and interactivity. The Company and its founder, Dr. David Hanson, has built a worldwide reputation for creating robots that look and act genuinely alive, and produced many renowned robots that have received massive media and public acclaim.
The lifelike appearance and behavior of the Company’s robots spring from a unique combination of robotic technology, skin technology, character design/animation, and AI. The patented nanotech skin closely resembles human skin in its feel and flexibility. Proprietary motor control systems enable Hanson robots to persuasively convey a full range of human emotions. The Company’s AI will ingest emotional, conversational, and visual data that will spawn uniquely rich insights into how people think and feel.
The Company’s mission is to develop empathetic, smart living machines that will learn from human interaction and establish trusted relationships with people. These robots will teach, serve, provide comforting companionships, and through these interactions dramatically improve people’s lives. The Company envisions that one day these super-benevolent and super-intelligent machines will help us solve some of the most challenging problems of our times.
One of the robot characters that the company has recently unveiled is Sophia, which is a celebrated global personality. Sophia is the most endearing, expressive, and empathetic robot that the world has ever seen. Her charm will initially stem from her incredible human likeness, unbelievable facial expressions, and verbal and nonverbal interactivity. Over time, her growing intelligence, charismatic personality, and remarkable story will enchant the world and connect with people regardless of age, gender, and culture.
The Company aims to radically disrupt the consumer and commercial robotics market with affordable robots that have high-quality expressions and verbal and nonverbal interactivity. This enables the robots to engage in rich emotional dialogs with people, conveying and perceiving feelings along with thoughts, and over time develop deep and meaningful relationships with humans.
The Company’s robots have immediate applications as media personalities in movies and TV shows, entertainment animatronics in museums and theme parks, and for university research and medical training applications. The Company will be introducing a new range of robots that will entertain, educate, and enrich the lives of mass consumers, as well as serve businesses and delight their customers in a broad variety of commercial applications, including building traffic and promoting products and services in retail, tradeshows, auto showrooms, and banks, and entertaining and guiding customers in hotels, shopping outlets and malls, and residential developments. Their engaging expressiveness and conversational abilities, combined with empathetic AI, will empower the robots to be likeable, perceptive, and trusted companions for the humans whose lives they touch.
The Company has an unusually broad range of strengths and competitive advantages. Hanson Robotics is the acknowledged world leader in humanlike facial robotics. The founder, Dr. David Hanson, has more than fifteen years’ experience creating robots with facial expressiveness so realistic that observers often mistook them for real human beings. A combination of patented skin technology and deep know-how provide a significant barrier to competition, regardless of how large or wellresourced.
The Company also has deep expertise in character creation and storytelling. In addition to making robots look alive, it is vital to endow them with personalities, quirks, expressiveness, memories, self-awareness and motivations. Key Company team members learned their character development craft in Hollywood studios, and are now building both robot characters and the toolkits to expedite the creation of personas for future robots.
The Company’s location in Hong Kong puts it on the doorstep of the “world’s toy factory” in Guangdong. The rich electro-mechanical know-how in Guangdong is analogous for robotics to the depth of IT know-how in Silicon Valley. Guangdong toy engineers and factories are uniquely capable of designing and building high performance, inexpensive, reliable and scalable products for a small fraction of cost of producing similar items elsewhere. Key Company team members have been responsible for the creation, engineering, manufacturing and marketing of hit robotic toys that sold in the many millions of units worldwide.
Finally, the Company has deep expertise in the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The Company’s chief software scientist is one of the foremost leaders in the “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) movement. Where conventional AI reasons with narrow rationality, AGI thinks likes humans do, with subjective inference and emotionality.
Dr. David Hanson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Former Walt Disney Imagineering senior designer, recipient of numerous awards
from
NASA, NSF, AAAI, Tech Titans’ Innovator of the Year, and Cooper Hewitt Design
Triennial,
heralded as a robotics “genius” by Wired and PC Magazines, BFA film/video Rhode
Island
School of Design, PhD in interactive arts and engineering/aesthetic studies
University of
Texas, additional studies at Brown, UCLA and UCSD.
Dr. Ben Goertzel, Chief Scientist
Renowned thought leader in AI and AGI. Leads the development of the MindCloud
architecture, using OpenCOG AI platform. Developed trading and sentiment
analysis
systems for Webmind, Clarium Capital, StockMood, Cerrid Capital, and Chaikin
Trading.
Mathematics PhD from Temple University, adjunct professor at Xiamen University.
Dr. Jeanne Lim, Chief Marketing Officer
Prior Asia Pacific marketing director roles in 3Com, Cisco-Tandberg, Dell,
Danaher. Retail
and consumer business manager at Apple--launched Apple’s most innovative
products in
Asia, including Newton, PowerBook, iMac. Founded marketing consulting company
and was
the corporate head of marketing of an internet startup. MBA and Ph.D in Energy
Medicine.
David Chen, Chief Financial Officer/Director
Shanghai-based investor/entrepreneur. Formerly a product manager at Honda
automotive,
Chen holds an MBA from Harvard and electrical engineering degrees. Founder and
Director
of AngelVest private equity fund, through which Chen is the lead investor
instrumental in
bringing Dr. Hanson to Hong Kong.
Contact
Hanson Robotics Limited
Unit 209B, 2 Science Park East Avenue, Shatin, Hong Kong
info@hansonrobotics.com
www.hansonrobotics.com