
Sophia
Sophia is a Hanson Robotics social humanoid designed for human-robot interaction with expressive facial animations and conversational AI.
- Degrees of freedom
- 74
- Height · h
- 167 cm
- Mass · m
- Not listed
- Payload
- Not listed
- Speed · v
- Not listed
- Form factor
- humanoid
- Family
- Entertainment & Exhibition Humanoids, Commercial General-Purpose Humanoids
Get to know
the platform.
Sophia is a human-form social robot platform used for public engagement, education, and HRI research. It focuses on face-to-face interaction with speech recognition, speech output, and expressive facial mechanisms, and includes onboard cameras for perception (e.g., face detection/recognition). The Sophia 2020 configuration is listed at ~167 cm tall with 74 degrees of freedom.
A few more introductions.

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- DoF
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- Height
- 137 cm
- Weight
- 57 kg
- Payload
- N/A

Mesmer
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- DoF
- 22
- Height
- 175 cm
- Weight
- N/A
- Payload
- N/A

Ami Desktop
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- DoF
- 10
- Height
- 40 cm
- Weight
- 5 kg
- Payload
- N/A
Big ideas start with
a conversation.
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