We know that Engineered Arts’ Ameca can clone voices, but what happens when it encounters Azi, the company’s latest desktop robot? A simple joke ensued, but this new video was more to showcase their expressive capabilities rather than garner laughs.
Engineered Arts’s new desktop robots feature 32 actuators, with 27 for facial control alone, and 5 for the neck. Their AI conversational ability is enhanced, thanks to the inclusion of GPT-4o support, which makes them great robotic companions or conversation partners. We imagine that all future humanoid robots having the ability to converse just like their actual human counterparts.
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The use case for these robots are in hospitality or as characters, so I don’t think it’s meant to be necessarily totally unscripted. However I have seen previous videos of Ameca where she is capable of unscripted interactions (pre-ChatGPT as well). The main innovation with this company is the ability to have realistic facial expressions without being uncanny,” said one commenter.
