Before being granted citizenship, Sophia had a real 7

These robots are all prerequisites for Hanson Robotics to create Sophia.

As we know, Hanson Robotics company launched in early October, especially she and Saudi nationality.

However, before Sophia, Hanson Robotics also created seven other robots, each with an extremely human appearance. So I don't know what they look like? Below is Sophia's 'robot family' :

Albert Einstein HUBO

Hanson Robotics was founded in 2005 and its first robot produced was Albert Einstein HUBO, whose head was similar to the eminent physicist.

Specifically, in November 2005, founder Hanson Robotics revealed his robot project at the Apec Summit event in Seoul, Korea at that time. The project is a combination of this company and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.

Jules

In 2006, at the Wired Nextfest event, Hanson Robotics continued to release the next human-like robot model called Jules. The company describes: 'Jules is a miraculous human-like robot, bringing with it interesting features'.

Although Jules was produced more than 10 years ago, Jules has also been equipped with machine learning that allows people to chat smoothly. This robot also has the feature to monitor and identify faces to create appropriate emotions when chatting.

A computer in the robot's head will follow the eyes of the opposite person, allowing the robot to move its head in the direction of the person walking in the room.

Zeno

In 2007, at the Wired Nextfest event, David Hanson unveiled a 43cm high, 2kg, high-powered robot named Zeno - named after the son of the company's founder.

As described, Zeno is a 'smart' communication robot, which will become part of Hanson Robotics ' robokind family.

Alice

In 2008. Hanson Robotics developed Alice, a robot created for MIRA Labs in Genava, Switzerland.

Alice has been developed to achieve limits in human expressions. All the parts of this robot's face, from the chin, mouth, eyes, and eyebrows, can reproduce the emotional state of people, such as surprise, joy, anger and sadness.

Philip K. Dick Robot

Has been developed since 2005, but only later, Hanson Robotics rebuilt the new Philip K. Dick robot with more complex hardware.

The company said: 'By' regenerating 'PKD robots, we want to find out the level of intelligence of artificial intelligence with compassion and creativity. Although there is still a long way to go, new versions of this robot have been a powerful step forward for us to achieve that goal. '

Han

In 2015, Hanson Robotics created a very advanced robot model, named Han. This robot was launched at the Global Electric Energy conference in Hong Kong.

Here, Han had questions for both audiences and journalists in a very clear English language. Designed to be able to express emotions as much as possible, inside the Han robot has many mechanisms that work exactly the same as that of Sophia robots now.

 

Once again Hanson Robotics was inspired by Einstein physicist, but this time Professor Einstein's robot will have a smaller shape, only 35cm tall, for indoor use. Robot has been developed since 2016 and launched in January 2017

After successfully calling in a Kickstarter translation, Hanson Robotics began selling this 'robot' to customers.

Professor Einstein is equipped with 8 motors and sensors that allow to perform more than 50 facial expressions, can connect via Wifi to the company's database to provide information for the robot during the interaction process. with people.