HumanoidEngineered Arts2021GB

Ameca

Name: Ameca
Brand: Engineered Arts

Expressive social humanoid focused on facial expression and human interaction, used at events, museums and in research. Commercial units are mains-powered upper-body robots on a fixed pedestal; no walking version has shipped.

activeBuyL0 Indexednot buildable

Difficulty index

10.5/13

10.5

Index breakdown
Class	humanoid	+5
Cost	unknown · midpoint	+1.5
DOF	61 DOF	+3
Parts	unknown · midpoint	+1

How the index works

Top of the ladder. This robot lives on the humanoid domains.

humanoidrobots.systems/engineeredarts/ameca ↗
Full spec sheet and comparisons
humanoidrobot.build/engineeredarts/ameca
Closed hardware. Buy link only.
humanoidrobots.training/engineeredarts/ameca
No public URDF or MJCF.

Specimen photographs

3 items

Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).Willy Jackson, via Wikimedia Commons · CC-BY-SA-4.0 · source
Ameca Humanoid Robot AI PlatformEngineered Arts · official video, embedded · source
Ameca InteractionEngineered Arts · official video, embedded · source

Spec card

6/13 known

Degrees of freedom: 61
Height: 187 cm
Mass: 62 kg
Actuators: Electric; 27 DOF head/face, 34 DOF upper body
Compute: Embedded robot PC; Tritium robotOS (Linux/Yocto)
Sensors: 2x 8MP eye cameras, binaural mics, 4-ch chest mic, LiDAR safety sensors

Not in the registry: payload, speed, runtime, battery, price, bom total, part count. Left blank rather than guessed.

What you learn building it

+Whole-body controlclass: humanoid
+Dozens of actuators on one busclass: humanoid
+Balance and fall handlingclass: humanoid
+Safe bring-up of a full-size machineclass: humanoid

Openness

0/100

not publicCAD
not publicBOM
not publicFirmware
not publicSim model
not publicSoftware
not publicPolicies

Score 0/100 computed from what is public: CAD 25, BOM 20, sim 20, firmware 15, software 10, policies 10.

Repos & models

github.com/engineeredarts/tritium_remote

Site Buy

Build it

Closed hardware. Buy link only.

humanoidrobot.build/engineeredarts/ameca · Closed hardware. Buy link only.

Simulate

humanoidrobots.training/engineeredarts/ameca

No public URDF or MJCF.

Next rung

None. This is the top. Find people building it on humanoidrobots.team.

This is the top of the ladder.

NoteCurrent full-size model is Gen 2.6 (2024). An Ameca Desktop Gen 3 (head-and-shoulders) was reportedly released June 2026.

Sources

[1]Engineered Arts - Amecachecked 2026-09-24
[2]Wikipedia - Amecachecked 2026-09-24