Partnership
Alphabet Google x Hanson Robotics (Sophia Speech Recognition AI)
Hanson Robotics embedded Alphabet/Google's speech recognition technology into Sophia the robot, designed to get smarter over time. Combined with Hanson's Frubber skin and expressive AI platform, Sophia became the world's most advanced social humanoid robot.
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- technology
- Status
- Activeoperating
- Announced
- 2018-01-018.7 years ago
- Active for
- 8.7 years
Who’s involved
Hanson Roboticscustomer
Hanson Robotics is a Hong Kong-based [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai) robotics company developing expressive social robots including Sophia, the world-famous humanoid robot known for advanced facial expressions and conversational AI.
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- Alphabet/Google · technology provider
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