Erica
![Erica, a highly realistic humanoid female robot with golden skin, almond shaped eyes, and shoulder length brown hair wears a black button up shirt and purple sweater.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/d300407cfeb4a75eb074b0e6167a6fdb2ab19f6c-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
Erica is an advanced android designed as a research platform to study human-robot interaction. It understands natural language, has a synthesized human-like voice, and can display a variety of facial expressions.
- Creators
Ishiguro Lab, Kyoto University, and ATR
- Year
- 2015
- Country
- Japan 🇯🇵
- Categories
- Features
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Did you know?
When Erica is listening, it blinks and moves its eyes and head, just like a person.
![Hiroshi Ishiguro, a man with black hair, glasses and a black outfit looks at Erica, a female humanoid robot with golden skin, almond shaped eyes, and shoulder length brown hair.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/791b7ca19c065d8227a579dcb4f159c2ae858e2c-2048x1536.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
![A close-up of female robot Erica's face, which has smooth peach color skin, pink lips, brown almond shaped eyes, and brown hair.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/244fda4394cd8922201a72c33c33f168f63f1ad1-3000x2000.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
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![Female robot Erica wearing a new long bob hairstyle that is lighter brown while sitting in a brightly lit atrium with plants in the background.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7p2whiua/production/98dc61d83607d9a859cf3f3e67acb32c8ca24887-3000x2000.jpg?w=900&auto=format)
Specs
- Overview
Natural dialogue and motion-generation capabilities. Ultrarealistic human-like appearance. Facial expressions and gesture motions.
- Status
Inactive
- Year
2015
- Website
- Height
- 166 cm
- Sensors
Two CMOS cameras and two microphones in the head
- Actuators
44 pneumatic actuators
- Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
- 44 (Face: 13 DoF; Neck: 4 DoF; Arms: 9 DoF x 2; Torso: 3 DoF; Hands: 3 DoF x 2)
- Materials
Silicone (face, arms, and hands)
- Compute
Sensor network connected to multiple PCs. One PC to control actuators.
- Software
ROS, Java, Python
- Power
0.7-MPa compressed air to drive the pneumatic actuators and 24-V DC power supply to control the valves