Looks like Hanson Robotics are releasing a new version of Sophia for "for research, academic and B2B applications".
Teaser video here
https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia-2020/
Frightening on so many levels :-)
This website and blog support the Virtual Humans book by David Burden and Maggi Savin-Baden published by Taylor & Francis in February 2019. Here you can find links to images, videos, papers, articles and application resources related to the topics covered by the book, and a blog maintained by the authors to track the development of this fascinating and vitally important topic.
Looks like Hanson Robotics are releasing a new version of Sophia for "for research, academic and B2B applications".
Teaser video here
https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia-2020/
Frightening on so many levels :-)
David's talk at AI Tech North on "Enriching Virtual Humans through the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs" is now available on video:
It's a 20min watch, and followed by another interesting session on analysis of language in social media use.