Hanson Robotics has launched a new toy robot aimed at children named Little Sophia, which has been created by utilising technology from its larger humanoid robot Sofia. Watch the demonstration video ...

The brainchild of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, Sophia is the Audrey Hepburn-inspired humanoid robot who has met all manner of politicians and celebrities, and once promised to, err, destroy all of ...

The makers of Sophia the robot are set to mass produce thousands of humanoid machines starting this year. Hong-Kong based company Hanson Robotics will roll out four new models in the first half of ...

While most efforts are mired deep in the Uncanny Valley, roboticists remain determined to create lifelike human automatons. Sophia, the latest creation from Hanson Robotics, brings us one step closer ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Sophia the robot was ...

The field of robotics is fast-growing. Robots can now perform complicated movements with elegance – back-flipping, practicing parkour moves, even “carving” classical sculptures. Then there’s Sophia, a ...

Sophia, an emotionally expressive humanoid robot and new citizen of Saudi Arabia, was in town for a conference, and I got to meet it. It doesn't have legs and couldn't move anything but its face, but ...

It was a typical online class in the Covid era. Emoji, ranging from heart-eyes to clapping hands, flooded the video call in an upward stream while students aged 6 to 18, as well as myself, watched a ...