Sophia commented that, in the future, she would like to see families made up of androids , and that she herself wants to have a robot baby with the same name. However, she clarified that she is ...

Sophia has been awake and active since early 2016 and has been traveling the world ever since; Sophia is the first bot to act human enough to earn official citizenship (from Saudi Arabia in 2017).

My Robot Sophia explores these questions, offering an intimate window into Hanson's creative process, familial traumas, and surfacing anxieties as investors pressure him for answers.

Before Sophia addressed graduates, D'Youville shared a Facebook post on April 25 saying the school is "embracing technology" by allowing the robot, who's appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring ...

Hanson founded Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia and her “siblings.” He worked with USC’s expanded animation program to help plan this event. The artificial intelligence-powered robot ...

But while “My Robot Sophia” sets us up with that kind of surface analysis, it becomes pretty clear that there’s a lot of dramatic irony at work.

In 2017, Sophia made history by becoming the first android to be granted legal citizenship . The humanoid , with nationality of Saudi Arabia, has made several controversial statements, but the ...