Engineered Arts Ameca

A British humanoid robot from Engineered Arts, known for remarkably lifelike facial expressions.

Ameca is a humanoid robot developed by the British company Engineered Arts, based in Cornwall, built in 2021 and first publicly shown at CES in January 2022. It has a grey rubber face and hands, deliberately designed to be gender-neutral, with a large number of small actuators in its head and face able to produce subtle expressions such as blinking, frowning, and looking surprised; it runs on the company's own Tritium cloud robot-operating software, which can connect to a large language model for conversation. Ameca cannot walk on its own and is used mainly for trade shows, museums, reception duty, and human-robot interaction research. It is often invoked in discussions of the uncanny-valley effect, meaning the unease people feel when something looks almost, but not quite, human, and it also illustrates that humanoid robotics has a branch beyond locomotion and manipulation: expressive interaction.

ExampleAt a trade show, Ameca connects to a large language model to converse with visitors, raising an eyebrow and smiling as it answers; the video spread widely on social media.

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Sources

Ameca (robot) - Wikipedia
Ameca Humanoid Robot From Engineered Arts to Debut at CES 2022 - Robotics 24/7

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2026-09