“I come from a family of geniuses and criminals,” confesses inventor David Hanson. And it’s not at all apparent if Hanson is the former, or a less pernicious version of the latter.
For years, Hanson has spent his days and nights developing “Sophia:” an android billed as “the most realistic humanoid robot in the world” and the namesake of this documentary.
He can often be found hunched over at a workbench, pulling together synthetic materials to create more artificial faces for Sophia (there’s more than one version of her), gregariously charging his employees to push the technology at hand, or at conferences showing off a Sophia prototype in the hopes of raising money from prospective investors.
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