Dr. Hanson has built a worldwide reputation for creating the world’s most humanlike, empathetic robots, endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics and interactivity. He has produced many renowned, one-of-a-kind robot characters that have received massive media and public acclaim. Dr. Hanson publishes regularly in materials science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics journals, and AI magazine. Dr. Hanson has been featured in numerous popular media outlets including New York Times, Popular Science, Scientific American, and CNN. He has been labeled a ‘genius’ by both PC Magazine and WIRED, and has earned awards from NASA, NSF, AAAI, and Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. At Walt Disney Imagineering, Dr. Hanson worked as both a sculptor and a technical consultant. He has spoken at venues including MIT, Dartmouth, Brown, Google, UCSD and AAAS annual meeting.