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Engineered Arts
IndustryHumanoid robots
Founded2004; 20 years ago (2004)
FounderWill Jackson
Headquarters
Penryn, Cornwall
,
England
Websiteengineeredarts.co.uk

Engineered Arts is an English engineering, designer and manufacturer of humanoid robots based in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It was founded in October 2004 by Will Jackson.[1]

History

The company was founded by Will Jackson in 2004, with a background in special effects, Jackson was working on exhibitions for London's Science Museum in the 1990s when he came on the need for a machine that could explain concepts and ideas to people repetitively in an entertaining fashion and not to be nervous when talking to a group of people, the company's initial work creating exhibits at the Eden Project in January 2005 with the goal to supply a troop of robotic actors to perform at the "Mechanical Theatre", this led to creation of platform that was the basis of their robots.

Products

Ameca

Ameca is a humanoid robot designed as a platform for Artificial Intelligence research and human interaction applications. It was launched at CES in Las Vegas USA in January 2022 [2] Able to contort it's face into human-like expressions, ranging from disbelief to disgust.[3] it was demonstrated in 2022 mimic an operators face using a mobile phone that had a LIDAR built-in[4] and Apples AR-Kit[5]

Ameca humanoid robot generation 1

Mesmer

An android with its face covered by a skin-like rubber, it does human-like expressions and characteristics, it can express a wide range of human emotions it was created and manufactured using 3D scans of actual people taken in-house, allowing Engineered Arts to accurately mimic human bone form, skin texture, and emotions.[6]

Robothespian

RoboThespian is an interactive, animatronic humanoid robot[7] with LCD screens for eyes,[8] powered by Pneumatic motors, it and speaks more than 30 languages, and can be found on public display worldwide.[9]

Will Jackson (right) of Engineered Arts Ltd with the Robothespian

It is 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) tall, weighs in at 33 kilograms (73 lb), sports an aluminium chassis and a body shell made of polyethylene terephthalate plastic and its body offers over 30 axis of movement.

Internally it uses a Parallax processor for motor control[10]

Over fifty are currently permanently installed worldwide,[11] including:

  • NASA Kennedy Space Center, USA.
  • Questacon, National Science Museum of Australia
  • MUNCYT (Museo Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnología), National Science and Technology Museum in Spain
  • Parc Futuroscope, France.
  • Copernicus Science Centre, Poland (complete Theatre of Robots stage production, comprising 3 RoboThespians, integrated lighting, video projection, multi channel sound).[12]

Academic institutions, including:

Socibot

Innorobo 2015 - Engineered Arts - Socibot

Torso with a projected face, it integrated the core technologies of RoboThespian but in a desktop or kiosk sized robot[16] with a projected computer-generated face and articulated neck a simple and affordable introduction to advanced robotics.[17]


This robot has been sold to places such as[18]

Public installations:

  • Putnam Museum, Iowa, USA
  • Parc Futuroscope, France
  • Espace des Sciences, France
  • Bal Robotov, Russia

Academic institutions, including:

Custom Robots

Ai-Da

Main article: Ai-Da

Ai-Da is a realistic humanoid robot artist based on the Robothespian platform. Completed in 2019, Ai-Da contains no conversational AI capabilities and is tele operated using Engineered Arts ltd Tin Man software. The robot that makes drawings, painting, and sculptures. She is named after Ada Lovelace. The robot gained international attention when it was able to draw people from sight with a pencil using her bionic hand and cameras in her eyes.[19]

Ai-Da was invented by art gallery owner Aidan Meller, in collaboration with the company

Ai-Da Robot at Abu Dhabi Art

Technologies

Rather than use an "off the shelf" operating system such as ROS they use their own called "Tritium" , it is designed to make their robots easy to program by non-technical people and operated from any location.

Tinman a telepresence program[20] that allows the robot's owners to communicate with the robots audience while themselves being remote.

IOServe provides a generic way to link and program all robot hardware and runs under Linux. It has the ability to capture motion  data and replay it and modify existing motion sequences on the fly, including an interface to the open source 3D program Blender [21]

In popular culture

  • A projected-face version of robothespian performed alongside two humans in a play called The Uncanny Valley, which made its New York City premiere at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn in 2015.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ "ENGINEERED ARTS LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Second-Generation Of "World's Most Advance Humanoid Robot" Is Here To Say Hello". IFLScience. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  3. ^ "They Put GPT-3 Into That Robot With Creepily Realistic Facial Expressions and Yikes". Futurism. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Ameca Robot perfectly mimics your facial movements in real time". stealthoptional.com. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  5. ^ Madi (29 August 2022). "Robot Mimics Human Expressions". Mecharithm. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  6. ^ GRACE, HANNAH (14 December 2021). "Humanoid Robot Mesmer Goes Viral for Realistic Facial Reactions: "Real Androids Are Coming"". iTechPost.
  7. ^ "RoboThespian: the first commercial robot that behaves like a person". the Guardian. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Robothespian humanoid robot delivers human-like stage performances". New Atlas. 15 November 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  9. ^ "RoboThespian - ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics". robots.ieee.org. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  10. ^ https://learn.parallax.com/educators/inspiration/robothespian
  11. ^ "RoboThespian At a Glance - Engineered Arts Wiki". Engineered Arts. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  12. ^ Nijholt, Anton (July 2018). Robotic Stand-Up Comedy: State-of-the-Art. pp. 391–410. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0_32. ISBN 978-3-319-91124-3. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  13. ^ "Robothespian".
  14. ^ "'Robot Revolution' Returns to Chicago". WTTW News. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  15. ^ Fitzmaurice, Maurice (30 April 2015). "W5's singing robot is probably smarter than you". BelfastLive. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  16. ^ "SociBot - Engineered Arts Wiki". wiki.engineeredarts.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  17. ^ "Socibot". Robots Of London. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  18. ^ "SociBot At a Glance - Engineered Arts Wiki". wiki.engineeredarts.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  19. ^ "Robot Ai-Da will speak to the House of Lords in Westminster - CBBC Newsround". Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  20. ^ "TinMan Telepresence - Engineered Arts Wiki". wiki.engineeredarts.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  21. ^ https://learn.parallax.com/educators/inspiration/robothespian
  22. ^ "Review: The Uncanny Valley". IEEE Spectrum. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  23. ^ "What's the deal with... RoboThespian?". Time Out London. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  24. ^ Robots (2015) - IMDb, retrieved 10 October 2022
  25. ^ Goldman, Maryann (22 July 2015). "'Robots 3D' Takes You on a Tour of the Latest Advancements in Humanoid Robotics". GeekDad. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  26. ^ "WATCH: YouTuber Buys 'Incredibly Creepy' Robot Doppelganger of Himself". News18. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.

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