Gentle Robots is part of the Neurobotics group of companies, specialising in anthropomorphic (human-like) robotics and the software that drives it. The company was founded in 2016 in Zelenograd; the group itself has been operating since 2004.
We build robots you want to talk to. Every appearance is recreated from a living prototype, from a photograph or from a portrait, and the moving facial expression — a silicone face powered by up to 20 actuators — lets the robot show emotions and hold a natural conversation. The robots understand speech, follow the person they talk to with their eyes and recognise their mood.
We have more than ten years of development behind us: from the first Alice of Zelenograd to mass-produced medical simulator robots. We are certain that a robot should be not only smart but also polite — which is why politeness is right there in our name.
The first Alice of Zelenograd: 9 facial actuators, microphones in the ears and a speaker in the mouth.
The robot Alex was created — with a new silicone face technology.
Alice MKII: 18 actuators in the head, 13 of them facial, and a new facial muscle called “skepticism”. The robot Oleg appeared with a moving neck.
The robot “A. S. Pushkin” was created: the likeness was recreated from paintings, a self-portrait and a death mask.
The Alan Turing robot was built for the Skolkovo Robotics Centre — with speech recognition and a chatbot.
Gentle Robots was founded. It was followed by an updated model of the “Pushkin” robot.
Alice received a body with moving arms and neck; AIRA, a robot with a projected face, and the xoRDE development environment appeared.
The robot Betsy became a doctor's assistant, and a simulator robot began teaching how to recognise the signs of a stroke.
The team was selected for the worldwide ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition.
A dental robot with a replaceable jaw was created.
We build anthropomorphic (human-like) robots with lifelike facial expressions, speech and non-verbal communication — and we create custom appearances: from a photograph, a portrait or a living prototype. The robots run on our own RoboStudio software.
The company's first anthropomorphic robot. A silicone face with a real likeness: the appearance is either copied from a living prototype or recreated from a photograph or portrait.
The company's most popular robot. Alexander Sergeyevich's likeness was recreated from paintings, the memoirs of his contemporaries, a self-portrait and a death mask.
A robot with a futuristic appearance, created in 2018. It holds a conversation and has non-verbal communication skills.
Developed together with the Research and Education Centre for Modern Medical Technologies. It helps with initial diagnostics and reduces the workload on medical staff.
An anthropomorphic training robot for learning to recognise the symptoms of a stroke — for medical students and schoolchildren.
A social robot whose face is an animated projection. It lets one device change its appearance and show unlimited facial expression.
An interactive exhibition and education exhibit with a set of behavioural scenarios.
Our own software for the whole robot line-up: facial expression, speech and computer vision in a single interface.