A Look Back at 2016’s Robot Debuts
Social media is flooded right now with posts waxing nostalgic about the year 2016, which happened to be a crazy year for robotics.
My Robot Sophia is a 2025 documentary film directed by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle that follows roboticist David Hanson and his team at Hanson Robotics as they develop the humanoid robot Sophia. The film explores the intersection of science, emotion, and ethics in creating machines designed to mirror human empathy and intelligence.
Social media is flooded right now with posts waxing nostalgic about the year 2016, which happened to be a crazy year for robotics.
As the AI companion market explodes, the technology is quickly jumping from the digital to the physical world through robotics.
Hanson Robotics has spent over two decades chasing a bold idea: Lifelike machines that can think, feel, and connect.