David Hanson

CEO at Hanson Robotics

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Dr. David Hanson is Founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong-based robotics company known for developing highly expressive humanlike robots. A roboticist, artist and designer, Hanson previously worked at Walt Disney Imagineering in sculpture and robotics development. His work combines AI, cognitive science, materials science and character design to create social humanoid robots capable of humanlike facial expressions and interaction. He is best known as the creator of Sophia.