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    LIFELIKE ROBOTS MADE IN HONG KONG MEANT TO WIN OVER HUMANS

    Jan 19, 2018 3 minutes

    David Hanson envisions a future in which AI-powered robots evolve to become “super-intelligent genius machines” that might help solve some of mankind’s most challenging problems.

    If only it were as simple as that.

    The Texas-born former sculptor at Walt Disney Imagineering and his Hong Kong-based startup Hanson Robotics are combining artificial intelligence with southern China’s expertise in toy design, electronics and manufacturing to craft humanoid “social robots” with faces designed to be lifelike and appealing enough to win trust from humans who interact with them.

    Hanson, 49, is perhaps best

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