"We're going to have to break you, to rebuild you." Gravitas has unveiled the official trailer for a peculiar
documentary film titled
My Robot Sophia, formerly known as
Sophia originally. The doc first premiered back in 2022 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and it also played at Mill Valley and Camerimage Film Festivals that same year. Only now getting a VOD release some three years later. This stirring and visually immersive documentary brings us inside the spirited pursuits of
David Hanson, a restless inventor aiming to perfect the world's most life-like
A.I. robot. He is the creator of "
Sophia" - a famous
female social humanoid robot developed in 2016 by the Hong Kong–based company Hanson Robotics. Sophia was activated on February 14, 2016, and made her first public appearance in mid-March 2016 at SXSW in Austin, TX. Ever since other companies have tried to develop lifelike sex dolls, among other creations. All these years later since she first arrived – this doc wonders: will David and Sophia find their place in the world? In my humble opinion – no. //
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