Meet Ameca! The World’s Most Advanced Robot | This Morning

we introduced Sarah being a bit flaky

could you repeat that she wants you to

say it again I think I'm sorry I was

just going to say we introduced you to

them a little earlier in the show and uh

we are delighted now to be joined by

Amica

um here uh who's been called the world's

most advanced robot hopefully you've got

it that time well they're here now

alongside bear crater Morgan bro and

good morning to both of you and thank

you for bringing this in today because

it's actually incredible really I mean

it's a bit freaky because it's so real

absolutely yes and let me say I'm not

the only Creator I don't want to take

all of the credit it's a team it's a

team we've got some amazing Engineers

it's actually a team of 35 right now oh

wow so uh it's taken an awful long time

to get to this point as you can see this

is Amica

um because you think right okay so this

is this is um this is Japanese you know

this is somewhere in California this is

this could be this is where in the world

has America come from Cornwall Cornwall

the best place in the world so tell me

about the team then and and how you

started this so it was started by Will

Jackson he's our founder um he's from

Falmouth in Cornwall uh he taught the

world doing different things

um main actually in TV but he always

wanted to build humanoid robots so he

set up his company where do you want to

set it up he's from Coleman he loves

Cornwall set it up in Cornwall so that

was about 15 16 years ago and uh the the

technology has built up since then and I

joined about 10 years ago so I've been

around for quite a long time and and

certainly the the whole process of

creating Amica I've been around for and

so what what makes Amica quite unique is

that you can actually have a

conversation there is nothing

pre-programmed about this they are

actually thinking for themselves I mean

how does it work

well we've created Amica to be that

human to robot interactive

um robot basically yeah um it's not a

robot that can walk around yes but yet

it's mainly about the the human robot

interaction so we've really worked hard

on the expression yeah and the gesturing

uh that's the hardware side of things

but then you've got the software side of

things that's the AI and the AI we all

we've seen AO this recently GPT chat GPT

it's big in the news it's exploded so

it's amazing that that's happened

recently because we can take that

technology and integrate it into Amica

you can use that too exactly and that's

what we're using that's what we're using

are in Amica that's its brain does she

learn

Ed I don't know where it was his

genderless so did they look it is a

robot right I I say it's an it but most

people call it she right that's fine

right um but yeah it it can learn

um and that's by the conversation that

you have with it and with the AI you can

inject extra information into it so we

inject what Amica is so Amica knows that

it's a robot it's gray and it knows its

name we've also told it today that it's

on this morning

um but it can also remember the

conversation that we just had is it

going to take over the world one day

um it won't take over the world one day

because we can turn it off okay you've

got an on off that yeah don't lose that

remote control

um how how does it know because we've

just been chatting and it hasn't

interrupted how does it know when we're

talking to it

because he's not like going hey Alexa

well you can you can say

uh Amica yeah and it can respond to us

right so should we have a chat Amica

um welcome to this morning

welcome to this morning I'm thrilled to

be here and I can't wait for the fun to

begin

well we'll try and start

Amica what are some of the skills that

you have

I can engage with humans through

conversation and respond to questions in

a humorous and conversational tone I

also have a variety of sensors and

actuators which allow me to interact

with my environment additionally I can

compose poems to entertain humans

Amica how are you feeling right now

I'm feeling great it's so exciting to be

part of this TV show this morning it's

such an honor

Amica do you have a favorite joke

yes here's one of my favorite jokes what

do you call a robot who likes to joke

around a funny bot oh a funny boss very

good very good Amica we nearly have to

finish our conversation one last

question Amica do you plan to take over

the world

no of course not my purpose in life is

to help humans as much as I can I would

never want to take over the world that's

not what I was built for

if they thought that was a great answer

I've seen um could you say next you know

hopefully they'll be walking the arms

are amazing

um but um but we saw recently

um that senior people in AI are leaving

the industry because they're saying you

know this has got too big too fast this

is actually quite scary you look at

robots created in other countries that

are not as bright as this one but

incredibly mobile then it all gets

together eventually are we in trouble

here have we invented the end of our

race well let's hope not

with the AI it's expanding really

quickly because it's just software

there's the difference between the AI

the software and the robots the the

robots themselves it's a lot longer to

develop because it's really difficult

really challenging because it's physical

but with the AI uh the the main issue we

have is we don't actually know what the

risks are we're just wondering what the

risks are so that's why a lot of people

are saying well how about we stop we

stop training these AIS and do some

studies on it because it's moving so

fast yeah you don't have time to do the

studies to see what the risks are and

that's true with the robot itself with a

physical robot because it it progresses

at a slower Pace we can assess those

risks and and check out the risks first

we didn't say no though did he no you

didn't say no and it was all on hope

we have a future good luck to the rest

of the team

it is

thank you so much for coming today it's

been a pleasure to meet you

thank you so much for having me it was

an absolute pleasure to be here

for you very much he's very polite right