Company Profile Hanson Robotics To dramatically improve people’s everyday lives with highly “Our robots are endowed with intelligent robots that teach, serve, entertain, and provide remarkable expressiveness comforting companionship. and interactivity, with the ability to simulate a full range of facial expressions so they can The product Website www.hansonrobotics.com engage with people deeply Hanson Robotics’ humanlike robots, like Sophia, will and emotionally.” be able to engage in rich emotional dialogs with people, Industries Robotics conveying and perceiving feelings along with thoughts, Artificial intelligence Dr. David Hanson Consumer electronics and over time develop deep and meaningful relationships Founder and CEO Founder with humans. These robots have applications as media Dr. David Hanson personalities in movies and TV shows, entertainment Foundation year What are the venture’s key achievements to date? animatronics in museums and theme parks, and for 2013 Hanson Robotics and its founder, Dr. David Hanson, have built a worldwide university research and medical training, in healthcare Legal form reputation for creating robots that look and act genuinely alive, and produced and education, as well as in sales and customer service. BVI holding company Hong Kong private limited company many renowned robots that have received massive media and public acclaim. Headquarters The company has launched a series of renowned character robots including The market Hong Kong Jules, Albert HUBO, Phillip K. Dick, BINA48, Han, Sophia, and a consumer The business of AI and robotics is growing quickly. For Key executives robot. Sophia has become a media personality and generates almost a million interfacing with people, natural humanlike interactions David Hanson, Founder and CEO David Chen, CFO dollars in sponsorship and rental fees. Professor Einstein, which over-achieved have proven highly profitable, in a growing segment of Jeanne Lim, CMO its funding goals on Kickstarter, is currently shipping on the company’s online AI applications. Today many commercially successful Frank Chernek, EVP store, Amazon, as well as e-tailers and retailers. conversational speech interfaces exist, however these Number of employees 40 are incomplete without animated character display. An What are the plans for future development? estimated 70% of information transfer is nonverbal in We plan to add increasing levels of abilities to our humanoid robots, especially human-human interactions – via gestures and facial in areas of AI and physical capabilities. In the near-term, we just launched a expressions. Therefore the future of AI interfaces is toy-scale robot for education and entertainment. We are also expanding the in animated characters. Hanson Robotics solved all manufacturing and capabilities of our human-size robots, exploring immediate these problems with their light-weight, low-power, applications and usage as a platform for improving AI. In the mid-term, we inexpensive animated character robots, that are widely will expand our consumer robot business, exploring additional characters. In regarded as the world’s most expressive. the longer term, as our intelligent machines become truly, generally intelligent, we will expand our robot and AI platforms into new vertical markets. Fundraising plans (next 12 to 24 months) USD 50 –100 million .