Facts

• Company: Engineered Arts
• Product type: Service Robot
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Interaction
• Website: https://engineeredarts.com/robots/azi-desktop

Profile sections

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

Summary

Azi Desktop is Engineered Arts compact male-presenting desktop humanoid for social interaction. It brings expressive facial animation, conversation and remote operation into a smaller format for offices, research labs and public-facing demonstrations.

Overview

Azi Desktop is Engineered Arts compact male-presenting desktop humanoid for social interaction. It brings expressive facial animation, conversation and remote operation into a smaller format for offices, research labs and public-facing demonstrations.

Market context

Azi Desktop is Engineered Arts' stationary desktop interaction robot with humanoid facial realism and AI-oriented conversation workflows.

• Target environment: Exhibitions, reception areas, research labs, customer-experience spaces, education settings and demonstration environments.
• Workflow context: Expressive conversation, AI interaction, public engagement, research studies and human-robot interface demonstrations.
• Customer context: Brands, venues, universities, labs and organizations wanting a realistic embodied interface without a full mobile humanoid body.
• Deployment model: Commercial desktop robot offered within Engineered Arts' broader expressive humanoid and social robotics range.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial product with a focused stationary form factor, positioned below full-size humanoids in cost, footprint and deployment complexity.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on interaction design, content quality, support needs, privacy controls, venue fit and integration with the customer's AI stack.
• Market position: Desktop humanoid-face system for embodied interaction, separate from full-body humanoid labor platforms.
• Adjacent products: Ami Desktop, Ameca, Pepper, Reachy Mini

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Expressive conversation, AI interaction, public engagement, research studies and human-robot interface demonstrations.

Capability

interaction

Deployment environment

Exhibitions, reception areas, research labs, customer-experience spaces, education settings and demonstration environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Expressive conversation, AI interaction, public engagement, research studies and human-robot interface demonstrations.
• Capability: interaction
• Deployment environment: Exhibitions, reception areas, research labs, customer-experience spaces, education settings and demonstration environments.

Specifications

• Weight Kg: 8.5 kg
• Total Dof: 32 DoF
• Camera: 2 x 8 MP cameras
• Audio Input: 2 x microphones, 1 x 4-channel microphone

Timeline / Research

• 2023-01-01 - Product Launch - Engineered Arts releases Azi Desktop - Azi Desktop specs list release date as 2023