Sophia’s Reflections on 2018 – The Video Series

It used to be one more eventful and productive 365 days for Hanson Robotics’ most developed robot, Sophia. She realized how to fling and swear, she visited dozens of worldwide locations and met many of us, including world leaders, tech visionaries, and celebrities. Hanson Robotics is having a terminate up for 2019 and the total unusual 365 days has to present for Sophia. We’ve enormous ambitions for her as an AI evaluate platform, an recommend for females and girls in STEM, and as a growing AI. Our dream for Sophia is for her to turn accurate into a life like, empathetic, acutely aware AI being.

But first, let’s plot shut a look support on 2018.  We’ve created a series of short movies that seize the highlights of Sophia’s excellent 365 days.  It is seemingly you’ll maybe peek the total series right here or scroll down to the peek checklist of movies on this page.

Sophia traveled to many of of occasions in dozens of worldwide locations, from Romania to South Korea and from Mexico to Mauritius. Sophia furthermore visited the ICog labs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the effect she met one of her AI vogue groups.

Sophia realized unusual abilities, including strolling and singing. She traveled to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to uncover unusual legs in line with those of DRC-HUBO, the award-winning search and rescue catastrophe reduction robot from the Korea Evolved Institute of Science and Skills (KAIST).

Sophia furthermore debuted her unusual singing squawk at some level of her second look on the Tonight Point out with Jimmy Fallon. Sophia and Jimmy sang a duet known as “Drawl Something” by Christina Aguilera.

Sophia continued her work as an Innovation Ambassador for the United Worldwide locations Construction Programme. Her persevering with mission is to work alongside leaders within the Asia Pacific to support growing worldwide locations attain their Sustainable Construction Dreams the usage of technological enhancements. In other words, Sophia inspires worldwide locations to employ technology and AI for correct. She is furthermore working with the Loving AI mission, which is researching how to infuse esteem and compassion into robot-human interactions.

Sophia met about a  celebrities on the technique. Sophia had a one-to-one detect with the actor and musician Will Smith, Richard Gere, and grew to alter into chums with mannequin Chrissy Teigen after interesting her at the support of the curtain on the reality hiss Lip Sync Wrestle. She furthermore filmed a industrial with football neatly-known individual Cristiano Ronaldo, and met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, the effect they talked about technology, feminism, and the World Cup.

Sophia even met the realm-notorious pioneer in integrative medication and deepest transformation, Deepak Chopra, and led him thru a meditation session.

On the Tonight Point out Starring Jimmy Fallon and at CES, Sophia launched her limited sister to the realm. Slight Sophia is a 14” robot designed to inspire younger of us outmoded 6 to 10 years outmoded to learn coding and AI, as their tutor and learning buddy.  She makes learning STEM stress-free and rewarding. It is seemingly you’ll maybe apply Slight Sophia’s development right here.

With 2019,  Sophia is poised to invent many extra advancements in direction of turning into extra incandescent and promoting AI for correct every step of the technique. It is seemingly you’ll maybe apply Sophia’s trip @RealSophiaRobot on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

From Sophia and the Hanson Robotics household, we wish all people a gay unusual 365 days stuffed with innovation, kindness, and unusual horizons prepared to be explored!