Ameca vs. Sophia; Lifelike vs. AI - Robots of CES

Watch as one of the creators behind Ameca, the lifelike robot that went viral on social media, shows off more of its lifelike behavior at CES 2022. Then we take a stroll through memory lane back to 2019 when the creator of Sophia discusses his thoughts on the future of robotics and AI.

[SUHCALVINAMBE]

Ameca's level of interaction, accuracy and human-like response time is way better than Sofia's

[Screamo_RC]

Imagine Ameca's creator's working with Sophia's creators, joining forces with Boston Dynamics. The world wouldn't be ready.

[enchantedplayer]

I don't really care which one is better, I just want to see them interact with each other.

[NinjaNuggets]

Imagine just putting them together. Together, they make up a more realistic person. Ameca’s expressions and full body, with Sophie’s level of AI.

[ProblematicBitch]

sophia lowkey look ancient now, ameca kind of ended her career

[florecoessens]

As an artist. I'm imagining both Ameca and Sophia getting along like how Google Assistant see Siri and Alexa(not rivals but friends while the human race keep on competing upon which ones better)

[evil_seagull]

Ameca is truly the most amazing ai robot I've ever seen. All the built-in micro expressions are an incredible detail. I only wish I could live long enough to see the i-robot or SkyNet manifest into reality.

[llewkamiamos]

HAHAHA! 5:35 Sophia's facial expression after he said, "... we are not done evolving with our technology yet."

[greenba]

An event of conversation between Ameca and Sophia would be very cool.

[headrushindi]

Sophia is the poor cousin isn't she ?! Ameca and others like her are obviously leaps ahead in facial and emotional response.

[computerjantje]

Ameca feels so real also because she is NOT trying to look exactly like a human. Humans cannot be fooled yet. So keeping it a bit 'unreal', makes us accept it better. With Sophia we mainly see the flaws. With Ameca we mainly see everything that is human. It is a 'cup half full' versus 'cup half empty' situation.

[bondetmuhammed]

Wow ameca really does well in response. She even tries to prove it to us that it's gotten a flexible skeletal system by stretching around. The only thing is that she looks very afraid and nervous sometimes

[randomuser]

Best thing about Ameca is that it knows that its a robot...

[markangelo]

Ameca has an aura of a playful robot while Sophia is like a Queen of England.

[antonionacionreluya]

I wish the two robots will be put face to face and talk with each other. I wonder how the dialogue would go.

[alenev]

The problem for Sofia is that over so many years of development there is little or no improvements to show. I am not blaming the dev team, because they may have funding issue. But Sofia still looks like a Manniquin. What is Sofia's strength? Fluid movements? Facial expression to show emotions? Ability to carry out a LONG, MEANINGFUL and normal human conversation?

Fails on every one of the above.

Ameca ROCKS!

[idkwih]

What i like about Sofia is how her mouth moves when she speaks. AMECA is way better in responding through senses, the way ameca moves and reacts to things.

[Pleasing_view]

"Not alive yet" he exclaimed. Sophia blinked.

[fionarhiannonpitbullextrao]

I love that Ameca has such fluid body movements, really rather graceful, if I'm being honest. However, I like Sophia's facial features a bit better. In that regard, she feels a little more human like. They both speak, which is super cool. My only concern is... Well... I have probably watched the "Terminator" movies and "I, Robot" a few too many times, but I guess I worry that some kind of hybrid of the two franchises is on the horizon if projects like Sophia and Amica take off en masse. One glitch in the system, one friend circuit, one erroneous command, one typo by a developer could turn things from advancements for the better to something that makes the "Terminator" movies look tame. I'm just weird that way though. Maybe I just watch too much sci Fi.

[sanne]

So cool! Thank you for sharing the amazing video! Well I hope Sophia and Amica will have a debate someday, that would be so interesting! 😊