David Hanson

David Hanson, PhD: Dr. Hanson, founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics Limited, has created many renowned robots and several key technologies enabling the world’s most human like, empathetic robots, including Sophia, Desdemona, Bina-48, and others. Endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics and interactivity, these robots and their AI serve in numerous AI research, educational, and artistic uses. Hanson believes that humanizing AI and robotics in science, engineering, arts and aesthetics may be key to human-AI alignment, inspiring humans to care about machines, and also teaching AI to understand and care about people.