{"id":"87fda895-5c96-4bad-b554-b4ac57a97f03","companyId":"374c3995-78fc-45fa-8a5b-cf55fc76c397","modelName":"Ameca","slug":"engineered-arts-ameca","description":"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.","formFactor":"humanoid","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Engineered Arts (founded Oct 2004, Falmouth, Cornwall UK; founder Will Jackson) makes Ameca, an expressive stationary upper-body/face social humanoid for human-robot interaction, research, exhibition, and hospitality. First revealed Dec 2021, public debut CES Jan 2022, Gen 3 at ICRA 2025. Predecessor RoboThespian has a 50+ unit track record (NASA Kennedy, science museums)."},{"label":"What it is NOT","value":"Ameca is NOT a bipedal/locomotion or labor humanoid - it does NOT walk ('not yet mobile') and is explicitly outside the warehouse/factory labor-humanoid race. Will Jackson frames it around face-to-face interaction, not locomotion or payload."},{"label":"Maturity = commercial (niche)","value":"This is the one entity in the Wave-5 cohort that clears the commercial bar: named, independently verifiable museum/institution installs across multiple countries (National Robotarium Edinburgh, Museum of the Future Dubai, Computer History Museum, Deutsches Museum, Copernicus Science Center), a published ~$250k price, an active purchase/rental motion, and a multi-generation product. Commercial for the expressive-HRI/exhibition category, NOT general-purpose labor."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Exact total Ameca install count (the '50+' applies to RoboThespian, not Ameca); precise per-config pricing (only ~$250k has a named-quote source; the $100k-$500k range is secondary-blog); 'world's most advanced humanoid' (marketing superlative); future walking capability (stated in-development, not demonstrated)."}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://engineeredarts.com/robot/ameca/","title":"Ameca official product page (61 actuated movements; purchase + rental)","sourceName":"Engineered Arts (official)"},{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameca_(robot)","title":"Ameca (robot): reveal Dec 2021, CES Jan 2022; verified museum install base","sourceName":"Wikipedia"},{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_Arts","title":"Engineered Arts (founded 2004, Falmouth UK; RoboThespian -> Mesmer -> Ameca lineage)","sourceName":"Wikipedia"},{"url":"https://www.uniladtech.com/news/worlds-most-advanced-humanoid-robot-368624-20241210","title":"Ameca ~$250,000; does not walk (Will Jackson quotes)","sourceName":"UNILAD Tech"},{"url":"https://www.axios.com/2022/05/24/humanoid-robots-rent-ameca-android","title":"Humanoid robots for rent: Ameca rental model","sourceName":"Axios"}],"aliases":["Ameca","Engineered Arts Ameca"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:24:19.884Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T19:24:19.884Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/engineered-arts-ameca","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/engineered-arts-ameca","name":"Ameca","alternateName":["Ameca","Engineered Arts Ameca"],"description":"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.","identifier":"87fda895-5c96-4bad-b554-b4ac57a97f03","category":"humanoid","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}