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Ameca
Photo: Willy Jackson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
CommercialUnited Kingdom

Engineered Arts Ltd · social humanoid

Ameca

A grey-skinned, gender-neutral humanoid built on Mesmer technology, with 17 motors in the head for expressions and a modular body that can be upgraded; it does not walk.

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Why it matters

Its late-2021 facial-expression video went viral and set a new public benchmark for realistic robot faces.

Real-world use

Shown at CES 2022 and sold or rented to museums, companies and research labs from 2022.

Timeline

First shown
2021-12-03
Released
2022
Engineered Arts announcement, then CES 2022, Las Vegas (5-8 Jan 2022)

Maker

Engineered Arts LtdCompany · founded 2004 · Falmouth, United Kingdom

What it has been shown doing

We checked public videos and press for Ameca and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.

Public attention

How much public attention Ameca gets, from open data.

  • 3,207 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Ameca (robot))
  • No recent press stories listed yet

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Hands
simple
Movement
Stationary
Actuators & motors
Current Generation 2.6 (2024): 61 actuated degrees of freedom, 27 in the head and face and 34 in the upper body (Engineered Arts). Modular, upgradable mechanics.
Sensors & vision
Two 8 MP cameras (one per eye), two spatial microphones in the ears plus a 4-channel chest microphone, LiDAR safety sensors, proximity sensors and position encoders; 20 W chest speaker.
Compute
Embedded robot PC plus Engineered Arts' cloud-based robot OS.
Materials & build
Grey skin face with a grey and metal shell; 1,870 mm tall, 62 kg (Gen 2.6).
AI & software
70+ languages and 50+ preset expressions.
Other details
Emergency stop buttons and fail-safes; Ethernet, Thunderbolt, USB and HDMI ports; interaction, conference and telepresence modes

Lineage

Every Engineered Arts humanoid in order.

  1. RoboThespianRoboThespian2005Commercial
  2. Mesmer (frame from the official video)Mesmer2018Commercial
  3. Ai-DaAi-Da2019Commercial
  4. AmecaAmeca2021Commercial

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
Maker's website
Sold or delivered
Sold and rented; Engineered Arts reports 250+ robots deployed across 30+ countries company-wide (not Ameca alone).
Where it is sold or used
30+ countries (company-wide figure)

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose

Full comparison
MeasureAmecaAmecaEngineered ArtsSaraSaraQSS AI & Robots (with Saudi Digital)Same jobs: social, entertainment · Both fixed in place · Both on sale or in pilotsRobo-CRobo-CPromobotSame job: social · Both fixed in place · Both on sale or in pilots
First shown2021-12-032023-02-072019-04
StatusCommercialCommercialCommercial
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Price——$50,000

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

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