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Hi, I'm RoboThespian, I'm a humanoid robot designed for communication and built by Engineered Arts.
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He was, our first robot to come out of that idea, 'Let's make a robot to talk to people.'
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So he's all about expression.
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There are 2,300 parts required to make RoboThespian.
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Shaking the hand here…
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And it's designed to really mimic a human arm.
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Yeah, I mean as best he can.
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He's obviously got limits to his movements. So he can't cross his arms up here.
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You've got these continual compromises between the engineering problem and the aesthetic problem.
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Engineered Arts designs and creates nearly all of its parts in-house in a warehouse in Cornwall in the U.K.
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Mechanics, engineers and software developers work together closely to bring the robot to life.
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So, basically this is RoboThespian's torso here.
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Machines do a lot of the heavy lifting inside the factory but it's human workers who operate the machines.
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This is a case of robots making jobs, not robots taking jobs.
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So, we're always looking to hire new people.
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One big problem we have is there's not much expertise in robotics, and there's huge demand.
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RoboThespian sells for around £60,000. That's just over $80,000,
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which buys you technology like human face recognition and movement tracking.
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He represents in himself, sort of, 12 years of development.
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How do you quantify that?
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It's insane.
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Thanks so much for showing us around today.
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No problem at all. It's been a pleasure having you guys.
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Hey everyone, thanks so much for watching our video of the tour inside the robot factory.
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Be sure to check out our video about if robots are going to potentially take our jobs,
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and while you're at it subscribe to CNBC International's YouTube channel.
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Talk to you later!