Hanson Robotics · healthcare humanoid
Grace
A nurse-styled humanoid built on the Sophia 2020 platform, with a chest thermal camera for temperature checks and conversational AI for social visits and talk therapy.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Pitched as the first humanoid built specifically as a healthcare assistant for elderly and isolated patients during COVID-19.
Real-world use
Company planned a beta production run in August 2021 and deployment in 2022; real hospital use was not confirmed.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Hanson RoboticsCompany · founded 2007 · Richardson, Texas, USA in 2007 (later Hong Kong)USD 1.5 million Texas Emerging Technology Fund grant (2006)
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Grace and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Grace gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Hands
- simple
- Movement
- Stationary
- Actuators & motors
- Face can simulate more than 48 major facial muscles (Reuters via Interaksyon).
- Sensors & vision
- Thermal camera in the chest to take temperature and gauge responsiveness (Reuters via Interaksyon).
- AI & software
- AI to help assess patients; speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese; offers social interaction, talk therapy and biological readings.
- Other details
- Built by Awakening Health, a joint venture of Hanson Robotics and Singularity Studio; cost described as similar to a luxury car.
Lineage
Every Awakening Health (Hanson Robotics and SingularityNET) humanoid in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Prototype in June 2021; company planned to mass-produce a beta version by August 2021 (plan, not confirmed)
- Where it is sold or used
- Planned deployment in Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan and Korea (2022 plan)
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Grace nurse robot unveiled in Hong Kong
Reuters showed the prototype at Hanson Robotics' Hong Kong workshop.
Interaksyon / Philstar
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. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | GraceAwakening Health (Hanson Robotics and SingularityNET) |  ADAMRobopreneur Sdn BhdSame jobs: social, healthcare · Both fixed in place · Both in development |  Mohammad (Muhammad)QSS AI & RobotsSame job: social · Both fixed in place · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2021-06 | 2019-03 | 2024-03 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
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| Weight | — | 44 kg | — |
| Joints | — | 22 | — |
| Speed | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — |
Sources
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