Teaching robots | David Hanson | TEDxHongKongED

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Creating Robots to cultivate creativity is the though provoking talk by David Hanson about the work Hanson robotics is doing to create robots that can really be of benefit to our lives. The robots that are designed by Hanson Robotics are used in the a number of internationally recognized Universities in order to serve a large variety of science and engineering research from autism therapy to cognitive science as well as mechanical engineering. Hanson Robotics really are robots that rock.

David Hanson
Award winning artist, scientist and creator of human robots

David Hanson is the founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, a company that aims to create robots as socially adept as any human being.

At Hanson Robotics, he developed a robotic facial hardware that establishes eye contact, recognizes faces and carries out natural spoken conversation. Hanson hopes these robotic faces prove useful to cognitive science and psychology and to the entertainment industry.

A former Walt Disney Imagineer, this young entrepreneur and roboticist has been labelled a "genius" by both PC Magazine and WIRED, and has earned awards from NASA, NSF and Cooper Hewitt Design. Dr. Hanson aims to create a socially intelligent robot that may have a place in the human family in the near future.

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