Las Vegas : When the world first saw Ameca pulling facial expressions in a lab, it was like something from a movie. But now this humanoid is out in the public at CES 2022

UK robotics firm Engineered Arts offered a sneak peek of its new humanoid robot last month ahead of a full reveal, and the preview was both incredible and unsettling. Ameca is presented as "the world's most advanced human-shaped robot," and a brief look at this "future face of robotics" suggests it might just live up to this claim.

"We were incredibly surprised," says Morgan Roe, Engineered Arts' director of operations. "Overnight, it became a sensation. We got 24 million views on one Twitter post."

Roe, said in an interview with Cnet that Ameca's not-quite-robot, not-quite-human appearance. Its body is all metal and plastic, its face is a deliberately genderless and nonhuman gray. It has 17 individual motors inside its head controlling its movements and expressions. But its facial features are surprisingly vivid and emotive. And it's this combination of artificial and lifelike that Roe says speaks to our collective vision of what humanoid robots will look like in the future.

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The company said that Ameca is the world’s most advanced human shaped robot and represents the forefront of human-robotics technology.

Image courtesy Engineered Arts