and arm movements. the company behind the robot says machines like ameca kevin hay has more an industrial estate in falmouth, an ugly looking building but it is far from ordinary. this is amica. the thing that makes it unique is its facial expressions. it can make us happy, sad, surprised, now it is getting bored with me. an ordinary looking building. for this demonstration amica is being controlled by morgan role, the director of operations. that camera is lookin: director of operations. that camera is looking at director of operations. that camera is looking at my director of operations. that camera is looking at my face director of operations. that camera is looking at my face and director of operations. that camera is looking at my face and we - director of operations. that camera is looking at my face and we can i director of operations. that camera | is looking at my face and we can see what my face is doing and i can smile and the robot smiles. move my
so how does it work? for this demonstration ameca is being controlled by morgan rowe, who s the director of operations for engineered arts. we ve got the camera on the system here. that camera is actually looking at my face and we can see what my face is doing and i can smile and the robot smiles. move my head, and the robot moves its head, so the robot s mimicking everything i m doing, i can effectively talk and listen via the robot from anywhere in the world. but as well as being controlled like a puppet. artificial intelligence means that ameca can react to its surroundings. if i get far too close then it will back away. the company has spent £2 million developing aeica, and it employs 22 people here in cornwall. this is not cgi. this is something that we can touch. it s something real right now, and it s in cornwall. from supermarket checkouts to self driving cars, the age of automation is here.