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Responsible: Ben Goertzel (architecture);(architecture)
Partners: Mind Children (education robot); Hanson Robotics (expressivehumanoids)humanoids — Sophia, Desdemona)
Papers: Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper (2025), §9.2
GitHub:GitHub (legacy OpenCog): ghost_bridge (ROS-GHOST bridge), ros-behavior-scripting (Eva robot control)control, production 2015–2017)
Status:Active pilot. Partnerships established with Mind Children (education robot) and Hanson RoboticsRobotics. (Sophia, Desdemona). Legacy OpenCog ROS integration operational;exists (ghost_bridge, ros-behavior-scripting). Hyperon-native robotics integration is under development.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 normsseamlessly.seamlessly The— cognitive substrate must handle everything from "explainclassroom fractionstutoring to astage third-grader"performance to "comfort an anxious student" to "perform on stage" — without requiring a complete rewrite for each scenario.
PartnersTarget
MindChildrenArchitecture —(from developingWhitepaper) a 3.5-foot education robot for classroom interaction.
Hanson Robotics — creators of Sophia (world's first robot citizen) and Desdemona (robot performer), bringing expertise in expressive humanoid robots for public engagement.
Technical Architecture
The whitepaper describes a layered architecture: external audio/vision neural networks for initial perception, with progressive embedding of predictive coding layers inside via QuantiMORK for latency-critical paths (gaze estimation, lip-sync, gesture segmentation). Pattern Miner discoverswould discover conversational templates (adjacency pairs, tutoring frames) thatfor Symbolic Heads to retrieve during speech decoding, while PLN enforces persona and safety constraints. MetaMo budgetswould 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")."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.
LegacyCurrent OpenCogImplementation
Theinfrastructureexisting includesrepo thesurface is legacy OpenCog infrastructure:
ghost_bridge — ROS package(connectingconnecting Hanson Robotics hardware to the GHOST chatbot system tovia robotAtomSpace. hardware)Bridges andspeech, gaze, gestures, emotion recognition.
ros-behavior-scripting(Eva— ROS nodes for Eva robot sensory input (vision, audio) and motor control,control. productionProduction use 2015–2017).with Hanson Robotics 2015–2017.
Hyperon-native equivalents of these components are part of the development roadmap.
Key References
Goertzel, B. (2025). Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper, §9.2: Humanoid Social Robotics
Partners: Mind Children (education robot); Hanson Robotics (expressive
Papers: Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper (2025), §9.2
Status:
Humanoid social robotics provides a stress-test for PRIMUS: robots must combine perception, dialogue, motor control, and social norms
Mind
Hanson Robotics — creators of Sophia (world's first robot citizen) and Desdemona (robot performer), bringing expertise in expressive humanoid robots for public engagement.
Motor control keeps low-level servo loops on the robot while SubRep options cover higher-level skills ("look at face", "nod",
The
ghost_bridge — ROS package
ros-behavior-scripting
Hyperon-native equivalents of these components are part of the development roadmap.
Key References
Goertzel, B. (2025). Hyperon for AGI⇒ASI Whitepaper, §9.2: Humanoid Social Robotics