Gadgetory

it's one small step for sofia one giant leap for robot kind this is Sofia the robot taking her first steps she's even got some sweet dance moves up her sleeve her skin called frubber helps her look lifelike and have human expressions she can blink turn her head and smile but she has over 60 different facial expressions now she's even more human-like thanks to legs from DRC Hueber that's the same buddy that won the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015 her legs allow her to walk potentially running climb stairs like the DARPA Robotics Challenge Cuba she can then moved through human-like environment use human-like tools these legs have a maximum speed of 30 centimeters per second which is around 0.6 miles an hour it doesn't say particularly fast now but her creators told me that one day they hope she'll play soccer now she has a body Hanson robotics says she has applications in medical therapy factory cowork situations and research it's gonna take many years for the machines to be truly alive so Sofia has opinions on many different topics including Star Wars and cryptocurrency but her responses are partially scripted and partially AI so conversation can be a little bit stilted tell me what it was like to take your first steps I'm really excited a little disoriented but really excited you