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As CEO of Hanson Robotics, Inc, David Hanson creates robot faces that have been dubbed "among the most advanced in the world" by the BBC, and inspired Science to label Hanson "head of his class" in social robotics. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and dabbling in AI programming at Brown, David Hanson worked at Walt Disney Imagineering, leading development of an autonomous walking robot and electro-active polymer (EAP) actuators. Later Hanson went on to work toward a PhD at the University of TX at Dallas, developing social robots affect naturalistic conversations with face tracking AI, speech recognition, and realistic expressions that use Hanson's patent-pending polymer materials:
Interview: http://electronicsandrobotic.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-with-david-hanson.html
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