What is Ameca?

The short answer

Ameca is an expressive social humanoid from Engineered Arts (Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, founded October 2004 by Will Jackson). It is famous for its uncanny, lifelike facial expressions. It is built for human-robot interaction, research, exhibition, education, and hospitality, not for physical labor.

What it is, and what it is not

Ameca is a stationary upper-body and face robot: 61 actuated movements (27 degrees of freedom in the head and face, 34 in the upper body), more than 50 facial expressions, roughly 187 cm tall, running the company's Tritium software with speech and large-language-model integration. A third generation was shown at ICRA 2025. Critically, Ameca does not walk. It is explicitly outside the warehouse and factory labor-humanoid race; Will Jackson frames it around face-to-face interaction, not locomotion or payload. Future walking is stated as in-development, not demonstrated.

What is verified

The registry records Ameca as commercial within its niche, on the strength of named, independently verifiable installs at institutions such as the Computer History Museum and Dubai's Museum of the Future, and a published price around $250,000 (recorded as an actual sale price, with purchase and rental both offered). What stays claimed rather than verified: the exact Ameca install count and the marketing label of world's most advanced humanoid.

For that verified-versus-claimed line, see verified-vs-claimed.