David Hanson

**Airicist** · 18th October 2013, 16:13

Founder, Chairman, CEO of Hanson Robotics

Visionary of Robokind

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David Hanson on Wikipedia

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SingularityNET

Adam Z1, mini humanoid robot

**Airicist** · 5th May 2014, 22:24

David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"

Uploaded on Oct 14, 2009

David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an "emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans.

**Airicist** · 18th April 2015, 10:08

The future of robotics: David Hanson at TEDxTaipei 2012

Published on May 26, 2013

David Hanson is the founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics -- a company that aims to create robots as socially adept as any human being. Through his organization, he has seen the success of robotic facial hardware that establishes eye contact, recognizes faces and carries out natural spoken conversation. Hanson hopes these robotic faces prove useful to cognitive science and psychology, and to the entertainment industry. A former Walt Disney Imagineer, this young entrepreneur and roboticist has been labeled a genius by both PC Magazine and WIRED, and has earned awards from NASA, NSF and Cooper Hewitt Design.

If Hanson succeeds, he will create a socially intelligent robot that may even one day have a place in the human family. Hanson is also a speaker for TED 2009.

"This moment is the Kitty Hawk of androids. We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention." --David Hanson, in TIME.