Having the third decade of the twenty-first century, the scientific world has constructed at least a dozen worth-knowing humanoid robots. Sophia, Ameca, Amelia, Pepper, Beomni, or Atlas these ones are names of the robots that we have available on the market today, among others. In this article, you can read my synthesis of these particular projects and you can find references to videos presenting their performance. These six projects, as far as I know, are good benchmarks for the others currently available on a market.
(Category: Human-oriented)
Sophia by Hanson Robotics
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Ameca by Engineered Arts
Undoubtedly, these are the best robots resembling human appearance. Sophia and Ameca are characterized by sophisticated interactivity. Besides looking like a human they behave like a human. Advanced facial expressions, understanding a natural language, and responding to it, and body movement are basic features that these robots can perform. The best way to get a better understanding of their skills is to see them in action, and you can do this through the following links:
Ameca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWACmFLvpHE
Sophia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRHdnkUjcZg&t=2s
(Category: Movement-oriented)
Atlas Boston Dynamics
The most sophisticated in terms of reflecting a human movement. Jumping, squatting, pushing, dancing, or even flipping are not activities that Atlas cannot perform. It has been developed to revolutionize the capabilities of robotic movement. It can perform parkour you can see this through the following link:
Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk
(Category: Utility-oriented)
Beomni 1.0 by Beyond Imagination
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Pepper by Humanizing Robotics
These two robots share most of the features that characterized Ameca and Sophia robots apart from the following one: Reflection of human appearance. These ones are available to buy, which means that you can take advantage of them even tomorrow (Beo. They have been used in a few industries so far. This feature gives their producers a competitive advantage over the owners of robots that I wrote about before. So let’s see their performance through the links below to figure out their possible application in your life:
Beomni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjC4PBj6SKU
Pepper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti4NiaQj8q0
(Category: Virtual-oriented)
Amelia by Amelia Ai
Amelia differs from previous ones because is the only one that is fully digital one. Amelia is the most advanced conversational AI, that is known as a successor of chatbots. It is a highly sophisticated virtual assistance that is used for customer services. The neural networks implemented in Amelia are comparable to those ones that are implemented in Ameca and Sophia. But this project is worth highlighting because it shows other filed of AI utilities. The functionalities of Amelia you can check via the link below. Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9u3yiJGmSI
Summary of the article
Hopefully, you’ve brought something new for you with this short article, my main purpose to write it has been to collect links and make it easier to you to catch up with news on humanoid robots. Personally, I reckon that human-like machines are our future, which will bring many opportunities for humanity, for example, providing accompany for solitude people helping them with simple daily chores, holding conversations to overcome loneliness, or providing customer services for businesses. We need them, and it depends on us how we will use them. If creators take responsibility for developing them in a direction of helping out rather than reducing the freedom and privacy of people, it will take the world by storm in the following decade.
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References:
https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/
https://www.engineeredarts.co.uk/robot/ameca/
https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas
https://humanizing.com/en/
https://www.beomni.ai/
https://amelia.ai/