top 10 humanoid robots in the world
top 10 humanoid robots in the world
1. Nadine
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Developed by Kokoro in 2013, Nadine features humanlike features including skin, hair and hands. The robot can perform a number of functions including simulating emotions, interacting with arm movements, answering questions in multiple languages and recognising individuals. This empathetic robot has 3D depth cameras, a microphone, and a webcam to gather visual and audio inputs
Imagine you are talking to a customer service agent. Obviously, you assumed that this agent is a human being. Well, your assumption might be wrong!!! You could be talking to Nadine, which is the most humanoid robot in the world! And you could be forgiven for thinking that Nadine is a human as she has a human-looking body with lifelike features. She can even recognize you from previous visits, make eye contact, shake your hand, continue chatting based on previous meetings, etc. Nadine was developed by Kokoro Japan with her software platform developed at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is currently working as a customer service agent at AIA Singapore (an insurance company).
Nadine was developed using cutting edge robotics technology to simulate human behavior. She has 3D depths cameras, a microphone, and a webcam to gather visual and audio inputs. Then there are various perception layers that process these inputs to recognize different faces, gestures, emotions, behavior, etc. and then respond accordingly. Nadine also had inbuilt chatbots that allow her to handle different queries and a memory model that remembers different users and conversations with them. In addition to all this, Nadine can also converse in 6 languages, namely English, German, French, Chinese, Hindi, and Japanese. So you won’t have any problems talking to her!!!
2. Sophia
Sophia, a humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong based company Hanson Robotics, was the first robot ever to be given citizenship of any country. Sofia is now officially a Saudi Arab citizen!!! And she is an extremely popular robot! She was developed to look like Audrey Hepburn, a famous Hollywood actress and has appeared in various interviews with the United Nations, Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in America, British Broadcasting Company, etc. Mr. Hanson, the creator of Sophia believes that she will be a perfect fit as an old age companion in nursing homes, a crowd manager in large events or parks, etc. In short, he hopes Sophia can ultimately gain enough social skills to interact convincingly with human beings.
These capabilities are embedded in Sophia using neural networks, expert robotic systems, natural language processing, machine perception, motor control, etc. She uses Machine Perception to recognize human faces, understand different emotional expressions and hand gestures. Then various path planning algorithms are used to control her hands, eyes, legs, etc. Sophia uses natural language processing to interact with different people and respond correctly (Which is very helpful in interviews!) All of these interactions are stored on a cloud network which allows easy analysis of conversations using blockchain technology.
3. Erica
When you watch the news, you get to know the latest updates from the news anchor. But now, that news anchor might be a robot! If you are in Japan, you might be getting your daily news from Erica, a Japanese robot. Erica was created by Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University. She is one of the most intelligent humanoids developed in Japan with a special emphasis on her speech capabilities. And while Erica cannot walk, she can easily interact with human beings and change her facial expressions according to the conversation.
This is possible for Erica because of the 15 inbuilt infrared sensors in her “eyes” that can track any movement. She also has speech-generation algorithms and facial recognition technology that makes it easy to track different faces in a room. Erica has inbuilt forty-four degrees of freedom that allow her to face, neck, waist and exhibit various facial expressions. And while she is unable to move her arms yet, it is not that big of a problem as she is working as a news anchor. Also, Hiroshi Ishiguro seems to think Erica has a “soul” but that is a question that creates a debate more on robotic metaphysics and less on technology.
4. Junko Chihira
Suppose you are a tourist in Japan and want some answers from the local tourist information centre. Chances are that your queries could be answered by Junko Chihira, a humanoid robot working in Aqua City Odaiba, a shopping centre on Tokyo’s waterfront. She is a humanoid robot developed by Toshiba using the technology created by Hiroshi Ishiguro, a robotics researcher at Osaka. Junko Chihira has incredible interaction skills and a wide range of facial expressions. She can also greet tourists in Japanese, English, and Chinese which makes communication much easier. Junko is also programmed with sign language to help hearing-impaired tourists.
Toshiba has used various advancements in Artificial Intelligence to create Junko Chihira. She is embedded with speech synthesis technology and natural language processing which means she can understand and answer tourist questions correctly. Junko Chihira also has an advanced version, Kanae Chihira, which can be programmed to speak any language. Kanae Chihira has much smoother movements and intelligence capabilities as she was developed specifically for the tourism and travel industry.
5. Jia Jia
Guess who is called the Robot Goddess of China?! Its Jia Jia, a humanoid robot developed by a team from the University of Science and Technology of China. Jia Jia is considered the most beautiful woman in China and this effect is only increased by the fact that she can talk to people and reply accordingly. While her speech patterns are still not smooth enough, Jia Jia makes up for it by looking remarkably human-like because of her eye movements and speech-lip synchronization. However, a weird thing is that she addresses her creators as “my lord”, which might just be a Chinese cultural addition!!!
Jia Jia has such realistic expressions as special emphasis was given to her “eyes” so that she can catch different gestures, emotions, behavior, etc. and then respond accordingly. She also has speech-generation algorithms that allow her to hold a conversation with humans and facial recognition technology that makes it easy to track different faces in a room. Using these technologies, Jia Jia was even able to tell when photographers were taking unflattering pictures, and telling them not to make her face look fat on the camera. And so, creators of Jia Jia hope that with time, her interactions will gradually become even more “human” and less robot-like.
6. Rashmi
Rashmi is an Indian life like realistic female lip-syncing humanoid robot which can speak four languages including Hindi and English. The most interesting thing in Rashmi Robot is it’s emotional interpretation system through which it has her own emotions, can detect emotions and respond accordingly.
7. Geminoid DK
Designed to be a realistic twin of Henry Scharfe of the University of Aalborg, the Geminoid DK is part of the Geminoid series of ultra-realistic androids. The robot was deigned in a collaboration between a private Japanese firm and Osaka University, which was supervised by Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the university’s Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. The main purpose of the development of this robot was to make the humanoid look completely like a human – it even features the real hair of Scharfe in its wig.
8.Shalu
Robot Shalu is a homemade, artificially intelligent, multilingual, social and educational humanoid robot, made-up of waste materials, that can speak 47 languages (9 Indian and 38 foreign), developed by Dinesh Kunwar Patel, a Kendriya Vidyalaya, Computer Science teacher from Mumbai, India[9] (native of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh).
9.Vyom Mitra
Vyommitra is a female-looking spacefaring humanoid robot being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation to function on-board the Gaganyaan, a crewed orbital spacecraft. Vyommitra was first unveiled on 22 January 2020 at the Human Spaceflight and Exploration symposium in Bengaluru.
10.Grace
Humanoid Grace, targeted at the healthcare market and designed to interact with the elderly and those isolated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dressed in a blue nurse’s uniform, Grace has Asian features, collar-length brown hair and a thermal camera in her chest to take your temperature and measure your responsiveness. She uses artificial intelligence to diagnose a patient and can speak English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
11. Ameca
Ameca is the world’s most advanced human shaped robot representing the forefront of human-robotics technology. Designed specifically as a platform for development into future robotics technologies, Ameca is the perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction.
12. Eagle
Indus International School has launched the innovative and first Teaching Robot in India, the Eagle Robot. Three of the Indus Schools have 21 Eagle Robots deployed, with seven in each of Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Pune. Eagle Robot is very interactive, personalises the experience, and emulates emotions through the digital face.
13. Dona
Dona a humanoid built by Promobot, a Russian company started by three friends – Oleg Kivokurtsev, Maxim Utev and Igor Yeremeev.
14. Alex
Alex, a hyper-realistic robot who speaks, makes 600 human facial expressions and can be customized to look like anyone. He even has a girlfriend named Alexandra, a barista humanoid. Alex is a Robo-C humanoid built by Promobot, a Russian company started by three friends – Oleg Kivokurtsev, Maxim Utev and Igor Yeremeev.
15. Indro
The robot’s creator Santosh Vasudeo Hulawale was inspired by an Indian robot movie that motivated him to building the humanoid robot. He worked on the robot for 5 years. The first version of the robot was introduced to the world in 2016. The robot is made at home using waste materials as well as aluminum, plastic, cardboard, wood, newspapers, and other things readily available in the local market. No 3D-printed components are used and the cost is low.
16. Kime
Developed by Seville-based Macco Robotics, Kime is a humanoid robot bartender designed to serve food and beverages. The robot can serve a glass of beer in 23 seconds and is about 2 square meters. Kime is programmed to align the glass at right angles for properly pouring the beer and can serve approximately 300 glasses per hour.
17.Han
One of three of Hanson Robotics’ robots to make the list, Han is an expressive humanoid robot that made its debut at the Global Sources Electronics Fair in Hong Kong following its activation in 2015. The robot’s primary focus is to help people find contentment. Han utilises voice recognition technology and multiple cameras to observe the environment and converse with them. The robot can display facial expressions with his face which is covered by frubber, a strong flesh-like rubber.
18. TALOS
PAL Robotics’ TALOS was created to help in industrial applications and can incur a load of 6kg with each arm fully extended. The walking biped humanoid robot is fully torque-controllable with torque sensor feedback in all joints, which enables powerful sensing and multi-contact motions. The closed-loop torque control can be used for whole-body control inverse dynamics and safe interaction with the environment.
19. Little Sophia
Another one of Hanson Robotics’ humanoid robots is Little Sophia, the little sister of its most famous robot, Sophia. Developed by the same team that developed Sophia, Little Sophia is 14” tall and is designed for educational purposes. Little Sophia makes learning STEM, Artificial Intelligence, and coding easy. She is a great companion for kids older than 8 years.
20. Atlas
Considered by some as ‘the world’s most dynamic humanoid’, Altas was created to assist humans in dangerous tasks such as search and rescue missions. The robot was developed by Boston Dynamics and was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The robot is 6ft tall and can perform impressive jumps and backflips.
top humanoid robots in the world
| 1 | Nadine |
| 2 | Sophia |
| 3 | Erica |
| 4 | Junko Chihira |
| 5 | Jia Jia |
| 6 | Rashmi |
| 7 | Geminoid Dk |
| 8 | Shalu |
| 9 | Vyom Mitra |
| 10 | Grace |
| 11 | Ameca |
| 12 | Eagle |
| 13 | Dona |
| 14 | Alex |
| 15 | Indro |
| 16 | kime |
| 17 | Han |
| 18 | Talos |
| 19 | Little Sophia |
| 20 | Atlas |
