Ameca is a

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created by

Engineered Arts Engineered Arts is an English engineering, designer and manufacturer of humanoid robots based in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It was founded in October 2004 by Will Jackson.. History The company was founded by Will Jackson in 2004. While work ...

History

The first generation of Ameca was developed at Engineered Arts headquarters in

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UK. The project started in February 2021 with the first video revealed publicly on Dec 1st 2021. Ameca gained widespread attention on Twitter and TikTok ahead of its first public demonstration at CES 2022 Where it was covered by CNET and other news outlets Ameca presented an

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shown by UK television public service broadcaster

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on Christmas day 2022.

Features

Ameca is primarily designed as a platform for further developing robotics technologies involving human-robot interaction. It utilizes embedded microphones, binocular eye mounted cameras, a chest camera and facial recognition software to interact with the public. Interactions can be governed by either

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or human

telepresence Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance or effect of being present via telerobotics, at a place other than their true location. Telepresence requires that the user ...

. Ameca also features articulated motorized arms, fingers, neck and facial features. Ameca's appearance features grey rubber skin on the face and hands, and is specifically designed to appear genderless.

Public Appearances 2022

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2022 *

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Nuremberg *

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2022 Hosted by Vodafone *

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2022

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