David Hanson, CEO of Hanson Robotics, discusses expressive humanoid and affordable home robots with Tom Green on Asian Robotics Review’s Great Ideas in Robotics program, from Hong Kong.
Hanson says his team of several dozen works at Hong Kong Science Park, where lab facilities and access to Shenzhen support design and production. The company is developing both human-scale robots with expressive faces and lower-cost personal robots.
Hanson describes a roughly 14.5-inch Einstein robot with facial movement, a tracking camera, Wi-Fi, speech recognition, and links to tablets or phones. He gives its retail price as $299 and says the company offers an API and SDK for apps, including educational activities and games.
Hanson says Hanson Robotics incorporated Ben Goertzel’s OpenCog platform into its AI work, which the company calls Robo, and wants its tools to support outside developers and researchers. He sees expressive characters as a way to make interaction with robots more natural and to encourage AI that better responds to people’s emotions and needs.
Hanson describes AI progress as a series of advances, with near-term work on machine learning, adaptive systems, creativity, and combining neural methods with symbolic reasoning. He gives a speculative estimate of five to fifteen years for machines to reach human-level performance across Turing tests, while stressing that the company can make useful products with current capabilities.
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