# Ameca: robot model

Canonical ID: `87fda895-5c96-4bad-b554-b4ac57a97f03`

- **Slug:** engineered-arts-ameca
- **Form factor:** humanoid
- **Maturity stage:** commercial
- **Lifecycle:** active
- **Deployments registered:** 0

## Specs

- **notes:** [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
- **specs:** Ameca: 61 actuated movements (27 DoF head/face + 34 DoF upper body), 50+ facial expressions, ~187 cm, stationary; Tritium software with LLM/speech integration; Generation 3 shown at ICRA 2025. ~$250,000; offered for purchase AND rental.
- **formFactor:** humanoid (stationary expressive upper-body/face HRI humanoid; does NOT walk)

## Deployments

_No deployments registered for this model._

## Supply chain

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model's suppliers._

_Suppliers appear when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is 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.

### Who makes Ameca?

Ameca is made by Engineered Arts, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, founded in 2004.

### Where is Ameca deployed?

No verified deployments of Ameca are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

### What is Ameca's maturity stage?

Ameca is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.


## Sources (5)

1. https://engineeredarts.com/robot/ameca/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameca_(robot)
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_Arts
4. https://www.uniladtech.com/news/worlds-most-advanced-humanoid-robot-368624-20241210
5. https://www.axios.com/2022/05/24/humanoid-robots-rent-ameca-android

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