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 Zeno Could Be Next Robot Boy Wonder

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Date posted: 06/09/2007

David Hanson is president of Hanson Robotics, a company that's made its name creating lifelike robot heads of dead, famous figures.

Earlier today, he introduced a prototype of what could become the next personal robot. This is a 17 inch tall, 4.5 pound humanoid robot boy named Zeno. The prototype, which will have a formal unveiling at Wired Nextfest in California next week, is described as an intelligent "conversational robot" and will ultimately be part of Hanson's "Robokind" line of personal, interactive bots.

Hanson has high hopes and big ambitions for Zeno. "We're combining the best artificial intelligence with this theater for fiction so that the way that it's crafted the artistry makes the robot seem like it's more intelligent. It turns robotics into an art medium."

"There will be compromises. The kind of animation that we're able to deliver in our high-end unit, we think we can get the essence of that into consumer products?It may not have 30 servos, but if you're clever in the way you're engineering the product, the technical compromises will be invisible to the user, because the essence of the character will come through."

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