Hanson Robotic’s Robot Boy Zeno

David Hanson has done it again. He’s made international news with Handson Robotic’s new creation Zeno. “It’s a representation of robotics as a character animation medium, one that is intelligent,” and “It sees you and recognizes your face. It learns your name and can build a relationship with you.” Zeno is different from his previous creations which where more life like - it instead is more Anime looking perhaps to capture the young market since Zeno is reported to be in market in the next 3 years for about $300 according to local Fox news.

David Hanson obtained his Ph.D from UT Dallas’ School of Arts and Humanities Arts & Techology Program and was already making news with other creations. He’s no doubt a very talented, what makes him stand out to me is that he is actually artistic too.

His previous creation:

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