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The robot is integrated into the Tomorrow Today experience, which explores how technology can shape the future across five domains: waste management, environment, food security, agriculture, and city planning.\n\nThe Museum of the Future is operated by the Dubai Future Foundation and is one of the world's most recognized modern architectural landmarks. An updated version of Ameca was deployed at the museum in 2024, demonstrating enhanced AI capabilities and more fluid motion. By 2025 Engineered Arts reported 29 Ameca units deployed globally across museums, science centers, research labs, and universities.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Exhibition","value":"Tomorrow Today exhibition, Museum of the Future"},{"label":"First deployed","value":"October 2022"},{"label":"Role","value":"Interactive visitor attraction: Q&A, directions, facial expression demo"},{"label":"Operator","value":"Museum of the Future / Dubai Future Foundation"},{"label":"Update","value":"Enhanced Ameca unit deployed 2024 per museum announcement"}],"reviewNote":null,"exposureHours":null,"exposureBasis":null,"customerSegment":null,"scaleTier":null,"contractValueUsd":null,"contractValueBasis":null,"customerCompanyId":null,"customerExternalName":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-11T22:50:01.838Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-12T00:10:59.463Z","model":{"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. 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