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.
- Price
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- Height
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- Weight
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- Payload
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- Speed
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- Battery
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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
Maker
Engineered Arts LtdCompany · founded 2004 · Falmouth, United KingdomWhat 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.
- 3,187 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 2026-10-13; 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.
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
| Measure | AmecaEngineered Arts |  SaraQSS AI & Robots (with Saudi Digital)Same jobs: social, entertainment · Both fixed in place · Both on sale or in pilots |  Robo-CPromobotSame job: social · Both fixed in place · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2021-12-03 | 2023-02-07 | 2019-04 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 162 cm | — |
| Weight | — | — | — |
| Joints | — | — | — |
| Speed | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | $50,000 |
Sources
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