Sharjah24 – Reuters: Robot engineers at Cornwall-based Engineered Arts have unveiled a remarkably human-like android, called 'Ameca'. A short promo video released by the company shows Ameca seemingly 'waking up', looking at its hands and then towards the camera. The 40 second clip has racked up well over 10 million views online since Engineered Arts released it earlier this week.

Ameca has grey coloured skin, with deliberately gender and race-neutral characteristics. The company describes it as the "world's most advanced human shaped robot representing the forefront of human-robotics technology."

Engineered Arts designs and manufactures humanoid entertainment robots for science centres, theme parks and businesses. Ameca is now available for purchase or rental, though Jackson believes it is the perfect test-platform for artificial intelligence (AI).

Ameca is the culmination of 15 years of work, and one robot costs over 100,000 GBP (133,000 USD) to buy.