Facts

• Company: Engineered Arts
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Interaction
• Website: https://engineeredarts.com/robots/ameca

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Ameca is Engineered Arts full-size social humanoid robot for human-robot interaction. It combines expressive facial movement, speech, cloud AI and telepresence tools for research, events, customer engagement and public demonstrations.

Overview

Ameca is Engineered Arts full-size social humanoid robot for human-robot interaction. It combines expressive facial movement, speech, cloud AI and telepresence tools for research, events, customer engagement and public demonstrations.

Market context

Ameca is Engineered Arts' full-size interactive humanoid robot built for entertainment, education and embodied AI interaction.

• Target environment: Exhibitions, entertainment venues, research labs and public interaction spaces.
• Workflow context: Human-robot interaction, conversation, expressive animation and programmable communication in public-facing or research settings.
• Customer context: Entertainment venues, research labs, educational institutions and AI interaction developers.
• Deployment model: Commercial product sold to entertainment, research and educational customers.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available platform with wide visibility as an interaction benchmark.
• Adoption constraints: Stationary base limits mobility. Designed for interaction rather than physical manipulation or workplace tasks.
• Market position: One of the clearest benchmark systems for social humanoid interaction. Distinct from industrial humanoids by focusing on communication rather than physical work.
• Adjacent products: Ameca Desktop, social robot platforms

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Human-robot interaction, conversation, expressive animation and programmable communication in public-facing or research settings.

Capability

interaction

Deployment environment

Exhibitions, entertainment venues, research labs and public interaction spaces.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction, conversation, expressive animation and programmable communication in public-facing or research settings.
• Capability: interaction
• Deployment environment: Exhibitions, entertainment venues, research labs and public interaction spaces.

Specifications

• Commercial Status: Commercial humanoid robot platform
• Height: 1870 mm
• Weight: 62 kg
• Dof: 61
• Face Dof: 27
• Neck Dof: 5 DoF
• Arm Dof: 10 arm DoF total, 5 per arm
• Hand Dof: 8 hand DoF total, 4 per hand
• Torso Dof: 3
• Camera System: 2 x 8 MP cameras, one in each eye

Tags

• Peer Group: Social interaction humanoid
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction
• Deployment Environment: Public interaction space
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product
• Market Signal: High-visibility demo

Timeline / Research

• 2026-06-24 - Deployment - Altus Schools pilots two Engineered Arts Ameca humanoids - One Ameca unit was operating at Altus Charter School of San Diego in Tierrasanta during the reported classroom pilot.
• 2025-12-09 - Research Publication - SensHRPS: Sensing Comfortable Human-Robot Proxemics and Personal Space With Eye-Tracking - The study evaluates user comfort with Ameca at four controlled distances from 0.5 m to 2.0 m.
• 2025-04-22 - Research Publication - Beyond Attention: Investigating the Threshold Where Objective Robot Exclusion Becomes Subjective - The study examines social exclusion in robot-led group interviews conducted by Ameca.
• 2024-12-17 - Funding - Engineered Arts raises USD 10M Series A - The financing supported humanoid robot product refinement, manufacturing readiness and production scale-up.
• 2024-10-24 - Research Publication - UGotMe: An Embodied System for Affective Human-Robot Interaction - UGotMe combines multimodal emotion recognition with denoising strategies for multiparty conversations.
• 2022-01-08 - Demonstration - Engineered Arts presents Ameca at CES 2022 - Ameca made its first public CES appearance in Las Vegas in January 2022
• 2021-01-01 - Product Launch - Engineered Arts releases Ameca humanoid robot platform - Ameca specs list release date as 2021

Comparable Systems

• Eggie - Tangible - Semi Humanoid
• LG CLOiD - LG Electronics - Semi Humanoid