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Engineered Arts

Engineered Arts is a British robotics company (Falmouth, Cornwall; founded 2004) making expressive humanoids including the Ameca humanoid robot, Mesmer, and…

Track Engineered Arts
Founded
2004
HQ
Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Status
private

Funding

$10.0M

Models

1

Overview

Engineered Arts is a British robotics company (Falmouth, Cornwall; founded 2004) making expressive humanoids including the Ameca humanoid robot, Mesmer, and RoboThespian. Ameca is commercially available and widely known for its lifelike facial expressions and human-robot interaction capabilities.

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Key facts

Product

Ameca expressive HRI humanoid (61 actuated movements; does not walk); ~$250k; purchase + rental.

Niche

Commercial in expressive-HRI/exhibition category; verified multi-country museum install base.

Company type

British robotics company

Position

Leading maker of expressive human-robot-interaction / exhibition humanoids

Data & sources

Press releases

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Web sources

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Models (1)

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Current platform

Ameca

Engineered Arts (founded October 2004 in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK by Will Jackson) makes Ameca, an expressive stationary upper-body and face social humanoid built for human-robot interaction, research, exhibition, education, and hospitality. Ameca has 61 actuated movements, 27 degrees of freedom in the head and face plus 34 in the upper body, more than 50 facial expressions, and runs the company's Tritium software with large-language-model and speech integration; it was first revealed in December 2021, made its public debut at CES in January 2022, and a third generation was shown at ICRA 2025. Critically, Ameca is not a bipedal or labor humanoid: it does not walk and is explicitly outside the warehouse and factory labor-humanoid race, with Will Jackson framing it around face-to-face interaction rather than locomotion or payload. The registry records it as commercial within its niche, the one Wave-5 entity that clearly clears that bar, on the strength of named and independently verifiable installations at institutions across multiple countries including the National Robotarium in Edinburgh, the Museum of the Future in Dubai, the Computer History Museum, the Deutsches Museum, and the Copernicus Science Center, a published price around $250,000, an active purchase-and-rental sales motion, and a multi-generation product backed by the decade-plus track record of its RoboThespian predecessor. The commercial label applies to the expressive human-robot-interaction and exhibition category, not to general-purpose labor, and the exact Ameca install count, precise per-configuration pricing, and future walking capability remain claimed-but-not-verified.

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Engineered Arts, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

  • What is Ameca?

    Ameca is Engineered Arts' expressive humanoid, famous for its lifelike face. It is a stationary upper-body robot for human-robot interaction and exhibitions. It does not walk, and it is not a labor humanoid.

  • Is Ameca autonomous?

    No, not in the way viral clips suggest. Ameca's conversation is scripted or LLM-driven and its facial expressions are pre-programmed, and it is sometimes teleoperated. It is not sentient, self-aware, or independently acting.

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Founders (1)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Engineered Arts.

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Recent coverage

Engineered Arts in third-party press

Why Is a San Diego Charter School Spending $500,000 on Two Humanoid Robots? - Gizmodo

Jun 29, 2026

Ameca Review: Price ($300K) & Full Specs [2026] - RoboZaps

Jun 10, 2026

Talking humanoid robot 'Ameca' makes appearance at San Mateo County Fair - ABC7 Bay Area

Jun 7, 2026

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