Ex Machina comes to life with realistic robot, Sophia (video)

 March 21, 2016 - 16:57 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Digital Spy is introducing Sophia, human-like android and latest SXSW celebrity.

She has more than 62 facial expressions, can see faces, make eye contact and recognize people, just about making her one of the most advanced androids ever seen in action.

And possibly also the most terrifying, Digital Spy said.

Sophia was developed by Dr David Hanson and his team of engineers at Hanson Robotics, who say that their goal is that "she will be as conscious, creative and capable as any human".

She can already give a pretty good interview, and has plans to "go to school, study, make art, start a business [and have her] own home and family" in the future, when she's viewed as a legal person.

And with Hanson sharing his belief that in 20 years robots will be walking among us and helping us, the arrival of Sophia is starting to seem like a case of life imitating art in the vein of Alex Garland's sci-fi hit Ex Machina, Digital Spy said.