David Hanson, founder and chief creative officer at Hanson Robotics, and CEO Jean discuss Little Sophia’s design, programming, capabilities, and launch plans at the company’s Hong Kong facility.
Jean describes Sophia as a platform for building AI and robotics projects. She says Little Sophia could help children explore STEM, while David adds that people of any age can use it.
David lists Blockly, ScratchX, and a Python SDK as ways to program Little Sophia, with Raspberry Pi, phone, and cloud options. He says her face has nine degrees of freedom and her body has two, all accessible through the SDK and app.
David says users can create question-and-answer interactions with Blockly and develop more advanced personalities with the SOUL Engine tools. He describes Little Sophia as adaptable through interaction and coding, and says personal information stays on the robot or phone while only anonymized device data may be sent to the cloud.
David outlines three operating modes: standalone, Bluetooth-linked to a phone or tablet, and connected to a network or cloud. Offline, she can respond to phrases, detect faces and obstacles, turn toward sounds, and react to touch; a mobile device adds broader speech recognition and chatbot features.
David gives a U.S. price of $159 and says Kickstarter backers would receive code examples, tutorials, computer vision features, and the phone app. He says the company planned to begin in the United States before bringing Little Sophia to other markets.
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