Ameca is a female

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created in 2021 by

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History

The first generation of Ameca was developed at Engineered Arts headquarters in Falmouth, Cornwall UK. The project started in February 2021, with the first video revealed publicly on 1 December 2021. Ameca gained widespread attention on Twitter and TikTok ahead of her first public demonstration at CES 2022, where she was covered by

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and other news outlets. In 2022, Ameca presented an

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for

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. Ameca is currently associated with the

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's robotic family, where she can interact with visitors.

Features

Ameca is primarily designed as a platform for further developing robotics technologies involving human-robot interaction. She utilizes embedded microphones, binocular eye mounted cameras, a chest camera and facial recognition software to interact with the public. Interactions can be governed by either

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or human

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. She also features articulated motorized arms, fingers, neck and facial features. Ameca's appearance features grey rubber skin on the face and hands, and is specifically designed to appear genderless.

Public appearances

* Copernicus Science Center,

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2022 Hosted by Vodafone *

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AI for Good Global Summit 2023 *

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