Ameca

Engineered Arts (founded October 2004 in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK by Will Jackson) makes Ameca, an expressive stationary upper-body and face social humanoid built for human-robot interaction, research, exhibition, education, and hospitality. Ameca has 61 actuated movements, 27 degrees of freedom in the head and face plus 34 in the upper body, more than 50 facial expressions, and runs the company's Tritium software with large-language-model and speech integration; it was first revealed in December 2021, made its public debut at CES in January 2022, and a third generation was shown at ICRA 2025. Critically, Ameca is not a bipedal or labor humanoid: it does not walk and is explicitly outside the warehouse and factory labor-humanoid race, with Will Jackson framing it around face-to-face interaction rather than locomotion or payload. The registry records it as commercial within its niche, the one Wave-5 entity that clearly clears that bar, on the strength of named and independently verifiable installations at institutions across multiple countries including the National Robotarium in Edinburgh, the Museum of the Future in Dubai, the Computer History Museum, the Deutsches Museum, and the Copernicus Science Center, a published price around $250,000, an active purchase-and-rental sales motion, and a multi-generation product backed by the decade-plus track record of its RoboThespian predecessor. The commercial label applies to the expressive human-robot-interaction and exhibition category, not to general-purpose labor, and the exact Ameca install count, precise per-configuration pricing, and future walking capability remain claimed-but-not-verified.

Ameca is listed at $250,000 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an actual sale price on record.

Yes. Ameca is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Ameca's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Degrees of freedom: 61; Height: ~187 cm; Weight: 62 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Ameca is made by Engineered Arts, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, founded in 2004.

2 verified deployments of Ameca are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Mountain View, Dubai.

Ameca is available for purchase - a real sale price is on record (see the pricing section for the figure and its source).

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable humanoid robots to Ameca include Walker S2, Digit, Unitree G1, Atlas.

Ameca and Walker S2 (UBTech Robotics · 18 deployments) are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. Ameca has 2 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Ameca ranks in roughly the top 28% of humanoid models tracked by the registry.

Ameca is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.

Ameca has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

The Engineered Arts Ameca costs $100,000 to $500,000 depending on configuration (head-only, half-body, or full unit). Most full installations run approximately $250,000. Ameca is a social humanoid robot designed for human-robot interaction, AI demonstration, and research, not for industrial labor.