Our Mission is to Realize Friendly Super-Intelligent Machines

Hanson Robotics realizes biologically-inspired robots, that is, machines that behave like living creatures. Specifically, we seek to model the behavior and movements of people in robots that act and react virtually indistinguishably from their human counterparts. Our social robots are capable of mimicking not just human emotions and facial expressions, but eye contact, face recognition, and naturalistic spoken conversation. We feel that these devices can serve to help to investigate what it means to be human, both scientifically and artistically.

Our facial hardware is light and low power enough to put onto mobile robots, yet the hardware makes extremely lifelike facial expressions. These capabilities are thanks to our patent-pending polymer material, Frubber ™, which physically acts more like natural human skin than do previous materials. Additionally, Hanson Robotics' mechanical and artistic innovations also contribute to more beautiful facial expressions and behaviors. Adding in a suite of Artificial Intelligence, speech recognition, and computer vision software, allows Hanson Robots to perceive and respond to people as no robots have before. Engrossingly close to humans in form, movement, and behavior, these devices can be immediately useful in simulation, cognitive science, education, entertainment, and in fine art sculptures.

As we continue to push our technology forward, and as related technology progresses, we expect that Hanson Robotics' robots will evolve into socially intelligent beings, capable of love and earning a place in the extended human family.