RoboKind

This product line presents new, unheard of possibilities. It is our series of small, fictional characters that can become most any character you can dream of. We have taken the idea of robotic characters to a level previously only dreamed of. We’ve fused vision, speech, hearing, mobility and an expressive face with our Character Engine software. The result is the ability to have unthethered walking character robots that can interact with human companions.

Our first incarnation is Zeno—a character robot that will walk and talk with kids and see them, all wirelessly controlled by a PC. Enlivened by Hanson’s famous conversational artificial intelligence software, Zeno will engage in complete dialogues with kids, see their face, make eye contact, and have his own moods and make his own decisions.

Zeno will be 17” tall, weigh 6 lbs. and run untethered on battery power. The body will walk and balance gracefully, and the face will use Hanson’s Frubber-based skin for best expressivity.

A large part of Zeno’s allure will be the continuing story associated with it. We’ve developed a story set in the year 2027. In the story, Zeno is an intelligent robot child enrolled in an “Inventing Academy”—a school where little robots learn to invent solutions to make the world a better place.

In addition to Zeno, we are available to create new characters for any company that wants to get into the exciting world of character robots.

You can also learn more about Zeno and other Hanson Robotics robots on Bipedal Robots.org.