Is the Ameca actually available for purchase?

Yes, shipping now. Source: https://engineeredarts.com/robot/ameca/.

What does the Ameca cost?

Ameca costs $250,000 one-time (actual sale price). Source: https://engineeredarts.com/robot/ameca/.

Where is the Ameca being used?

No verified field deployments on record.

No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.

Ameca is made by Engineered Arts, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Source: https://engineeredarts.com/robot/ameca/.

Consumer model

Ameca

By Engineered Arts · humanoid

Price: $250,000· actual sale price
Availability: Shipping now.
Maturity: commercial
Real-world use: No verified deployments

Ameca, from UK-based Engineered Arts, is the famous expressive humanoid: 61 actuated movements (27 DoF head/face plus 34 DoF upper body), 50+ facial expressions, and conversational AI via the Tritium software with LLM and speech integration (Generation 3 shown at ICRA 2025). It is a stationary communication and showpiece robot, not a mobile general-purpose worker. It is commercially offered for purchase and rental at about $250,000. The expressiveness and conversation are real; what it is not is a walking, working humanoid.

Readiness

Ameca is shipping now at $250,000 (actual sale price), no capability claims are on file, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.

Availability

shipping-now

Shipping now.

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Price honesty

actual-sale-price

One price on file: $250,000 (actual sale price).

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Capability honesty

no-claims

No reviewed capability claims on file for Ameca.

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Real-world use

commercial

Maturity: commercial. No verified deployments in the registry.

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Safety record

no-incidents

No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.

What it claims to do

No reviewed capability claims on file.

Price

$250,000actual sale price · Engineered Arts (Ameca) ↗ · as of 2025-05-01

Real-world use

No verified deployments on file for Ameca.

Safety record

No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative.

Privacy

No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Ameca.

Specs

notes: [{"label":"Verified","value":"Engineered Arts (founded Oct 2004, Falmouth, Cornwall UK; founder Will Jackson) makes Ameca, an expressive stationary upper-body/face social humanoid for human-robot interaction, research, exhibition, and hospitality. First revealed Dec 2021, public debut CES Jan 2022, Gen 3 at ICRA 2025. Predecessor RoboThespian has a 50+ unit track record (NASA Kennedy, science museums)."},{"label":"What it is NOT","value":"Ameca is NOT a bipedal/locomotion or labor humanoid - it does NOT walk ('not yet mobile') and is explicitly outside the warehouse/factory labor-humanoid race. Will Jackson frames it around face-to-face interaction, not locomotion or payload."},{"label":"Maturity = commercial (niche)","value":"This is the one entity in the Wave-5 cohort that clears the commercial bar: named, independently verifiable museum/institution installs across multiple countries (National Robotarium Edinburgh, Museum of the Future Dubai, Computer History Museum, Deutsches Museum, Copernicus Science Center), a published ~$250k price, an active purchase/rental motion, and a multi-generation product. Commercial for the expressive-HRI/exhibition category, NOT general-purpose labor."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Exact total Ameca install count (the '50+' applies to RoboThespian, not Ameca); precise per-config pricing (only ~$250k has a named-quote source; the $100k-$500k range is secondary-blog); 'world's most advanced humanoid' (marketing superlative); future walking capability (stated in-development, not demonstrated)."}]
specs: Ameca: 61 actuated movements (27 DoF head/face + 34 DoF upper body), 50+ facial expressions, ~187 cm, stationary; Tritium software with LLM/speech integration; Generation 3 shown at ICRA 2025. ~$250,000; offered for purchase AND rental.
formFactor: humanoid (stationary expressive upper-body/face HRI humanoid; does NOT walk)

What's under the hood

No brain on file for Ameca.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Ameca actually available for purchase?: Yes, shipping now.Source: Ameca official product page (61 actuated movements; purchase + rental)
What does the Ameca cost?: Ameca costs $250,000 one-time (actual sale price).Source: Engineered Arts (Ameca)
Where is the Ameca being used?: No verified field deployments on record.
Is the Ameca safe?: No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.
How does the Ameca handle privacy?: No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Ameca.
Who makes the Ameca?: Ameca is made by Engineered Arts, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.Source: Ameca official product page (61 actuated movements; purchase + rental)

Manufacturer

Engineered Arts (registry record: /companies/engineered-arts)

Compared to

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AgiBot Yuanzheng A2by AgiBot · humanoid

Sources

Ameca official product page (61 actuated movements; purchase + rental) · https://engineeredarts.com/robot/ameca/
Ameca (robot): reveal Dec 2021, CES Jan 2022; verified museum install base · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameca_(robot)
Engineered Arts (founded 2004, Falmouth UK; RoboThespian -> Mesmer -> Ameca lineage) · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_Arts
Ameca ~$250,000; does not walk (Will Jackson quotes) · https://www.uniladtech.com/news/worlds-most-advanced-humanoid-robot-368624-20241210
Humanoid robots for rent: Ameca rental model · https://www.axios.com/2022/05/24/humanoid-robots-rent-ameca-android

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