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David Hanson

Title: Founder and CEO

Institution: Hanson Robotics

Discipline: Technology & Engineering

Appearances: 1

Notable: Creator of Sophia, the world's most famous humanoid robot and first robot granted citizenship; former Walt Disney Imagineer; PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology from UT Dallas; BFA from Rhode Island School of Design; innovated advanced synthetic skin materials ('Frubber') and expressive facial mechanisms; robots include Albert Einstein HUBO and Professor Einstein

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Biography

David Hanson Jr. is an American roboticist who is the founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong-based company that creates human-looking robots with realistic facial expressions. He is best known as the creator of Sophia, the first robot to be granted citizenship (Saudi Arabia, 2017). His work uniquely blends figurative arts, cognitive science, and robotics engineering.

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