Social Robotics

Partners: Mind Children (education robot); Hanson Robotics (expressive humanoids — Sophia, Desdemona)

Papers: Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper (2025), §9.2

Status: Partnerships established with Mind Children and Hanson Robotics. Hyperon-native robotics integration is under development; the whitepaper (§9.2) describes the target architecture.

Humanoid social robotics provides a stress-test for PRIMUS: robots must combine perception, dialogue, motor control, and social norms seamlessly — from classroom tutoring to stage performance — without requiring a complete rewrite for each scenario.

Target Architecture (from Whitepaper)

The whitepaper describes a layered architecture: external audio/vision neural networks for initial perception, with progressive embedding of predictive coding layers for latency-critical paths (gaze estimation, lip-sync, gesture segmentation). Pattern Miner would discover conversational templates (adjacency pairs, tutoring frames) for Symbolic Heads to retrieve during speech decoding, while PLN enforces persona and safety constraints. MetaMo would budget the balance between exploration and de-escalation behaviors.

Motor control keeps low-level servo loops on the robot while SubRep options cover higher-level skills ("look at face", "nod", "hand-wave") with formal admission certificates. Geodesic control aligns dialogue steps with motion options so physical gestures support conversational goals. The whitepaper describes capability-gated on-device modification and safety dashboards tracking invariant bands for persona and etiquette.

Legacy implementation history — the original ROS/GHOST integration (Hanson Eva/Sophia, 2015–2017; loving-ai) → History

Key References

• Goertzel, B. (2025). Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper, §9.2: Humanoid Social Robotics