elder care
Patient engagement, wellness checks, temperature reading
Real-world demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Facilitated sessions; operator involvement varies
Research record R-027Public demonstration
Grace
By Hanson Robotics · Hong Kong · announced June 2021
Sophia's nurse-styled sister, built for healthcare in the pandemic and still looking for her ward.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
Grace is Hanson Robotics' healthcare android, unveiled in mid-2021 through Awakening Health, a joint venture with SingularityNET. Dressed as a nurse with the same Frubber expressive skin as Sophia, she was designed for elder care and patient engagement: talking with isolated patients, running through wellness checklists and reading temperatures with a chest thermal camera.
The pandemic-era pitch outpaced deployment. Grace has appeared at care facilities, conferences and trials across Asia, but no sustained commercial care deployment has been documented, and Hanson's chronic funding constraints (chronicled in the 2025 documentary about Sophia) apply to her program too.
Grace remains the most serious attempt to point hyper-realistic androids at care work, and a live test of whether human likeness helps or unsettles in a hospital room.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Real-world demo
Care-facility demonstrations and trials; no sustained commercial deployment documented
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
2 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Real-world demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
conversation
Multilingual care conversation
Real-world demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Operator curation common
Hardware record.
- Height
- 168 cm
- Weight
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Locomotion
- Stationary or wheeled base
- Payload
- None; interaction only
- Runtime
- Session-based
- Charging
- Mains
- Top speed
- Not applicable
- Degrees of freedom
- Facial articulation focus (Frubber face); arm gestures
- Hands
- Gesture hands
- Face / expression
- Frubber expressive face with 48 major muscles simulated (company figures)
- Sensors
- Eye cameras, chest thermal camera, microphones
Software record.
- AI platform
- Hanson AI with SingularityNET services; LLM integrations in later demos
- Voice
- Multilingual care conversation (English, Mandarin, Cantonese demonstrated)
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
- Visual recognition
- Face tracking; temperature reading
- Memory
- Patient-interaction personalization (claimed)
- Processing
- Local plus cloud
- Autonomous abilities
- Conversational autonomy; care workflows facilitated
- Teleoperation
- Operator curation common, as across the Hanson line
- Software updates
- Program-based
- Developer access
- Research partnerships
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Program-controlled; health-data handling not publicly documented
- Remote operation possible
- Yes
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not standardized
- Camera / microphone controls
- Operator controlled
- Data deletion
- Not documented
- Account required
- Not applicable
- Emergency stop
- Operator controlled
- Children and pets
- Supervised settings only
- Security updates
- Program-based
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Prototype
Grace unveiled via Awakening Health
- Public demonstration
Global appearances including UN AI for Good
Source register
2 linked sources.
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