David Hanson, Leading Roboticist, CEO of Hanson Robotics and Creator of Sophia the Robot

David Hanson, a leading roboticist, CEO and Founder of Hanson Robotics and creator of Sophia the Robot, among others, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.

David Hanson is a global authority in AI and robotics. Through his company, Hanson Robotics, David develops robots that are widely regarded as the world’s most human-like in appearance. To accomplish these goals, Hanson integrates figurative arts with cognitive science and robotics engineering, inventions novel skin materials, facial expression mechanisms, and collaborative developments in AI, within humanoid artworks like Sophia the robot, which can engage people in naturalistic face-to-face conversations and currently serve in AI research, education, therapy, and other uses.

David Hanson Interview Focus

1. Profile, and background;
2. As someone that has made a bridge between fiction, the Science Fiction, Art, Poetry, Music and advanced tech, AI, robotics - How do you see yourself?
3. You created multiple robots and after you created Sophia the Robot. This creation of robots is the most advanced stage of humanity's next evolution - how do you position the creation of Sophia the most advanced robot?;
Hanon open platform - open AI, 10. Sophia DAO - Decentralised Autonomous Organisation - decentralised AI?;
4. Robotics, Androids - Human evolution - AI - Singularity;
5. Regarding NFTs, Hanson Robotics and Sophia have collaborated with artist Andrea Bonaceto to create digital artwork. How do you see creativity, robotics, art and blockchain NFTs?
6. Will Sophia explore further her creator footprint? And What is Next regarding Sophia and Robotics?
7. What can you tell us about Hanson Robotics, its Business model, entrepreneurship, DeFi, NFTs, collective intelligence, crowdfunding?
8. How do you see Sophia and utilitarian robotics and their impact on humanity?
9. Future of Humanity - humanoids

David Hanson Biography

Hanson worked as a Walt Disney Imagineer, both a sculptor and a technical consultant in robotics, and later founded Hanson Robotics. As a researcher, Hanson published dozens of papers in materials science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics journals — including SPIE, IEEE, the International Journal of Cognitive Science, IROS, AAAI, AI magazine and more. He wrote two books including “Humanizing Robots” and received several patents. Hanson was featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Scientific American, WIRED, BBC and CNN. He also received awards from NASA, NSF, Tech Titans’ Innovator of the Year, RISD, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and the co-received the 2005 AAAI first place prize for open interaction of an AI system.

Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Interactive Arts and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a BFA in film Animation video from the Rhode Island School of Design.

David Hanson Links

https://www.ted.com/profiles/169694/about
https://www.hansonrobotics.com/david-hanson/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hanson_(robotics_designer)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUb1bZLNfEbTV1IiDb9kSVw
https://www.thinkingheads.com/en/speakers/david-hanson/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hanson-a51162/
https://www.aurumbureau.com/speaker/dr-david-hanson/
https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/AI/Pages/hanson.david.aspx
https://pro-motivate.com/speaker/david-hanson/
https://jccspeakers.com/speakers/david-hanson/

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