Azi Desktop Context

Market context

Azi Desktop is Engineered Arts' stationary desktop interaction robot with humanoid facial realism and AI-oriented conversation workflows.

  • Target environment: Exhibitions, reception areas, research labs, customer-experience spaces, education settings and demonstration environments.
  • Workflow context: Expressive conversation, AI interaction, public engagement, research studies and human-robot interface demonstrations.
  • Customer context: Brands, venues, universities, labs and organizations wanting a realistic embodied interface without a full mobile humanoid body.
  • Deployment model: Commercial desktop robot offered within Engineered Arts' broader expressive humanoid and social robotics range.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial product with a focused stationary form factor, positioned below full-size humanoids in cost, footprint and deployment complexity.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on interaction design, content quality, support needs, privacy controls, venue fit and integration with the customer's AI stack.
  • Market position: Desktop humanoid-face system for embodied interaction, separate from full-body humanoid labor platforms.
  • Adjacent products: Ami Desktop, Ameca, Pepper, Reachy Mini

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Expressive conversation, AI interaction, public engagement, research studies and human-robot interface demonstrations.

Deployment environment

Exhibitions, reception areas, research labs, customer-experience spaces, education settings and demonstration environments.

Specifications

  • Features: release date: 22 June 2026
  • Height: 525
  • Width Mm: 420
  • Depth Mm: 260
  • Head Dof: 27
  • Neck Dof: 5
  • Camera System: 2 × eye-mounted HD cameras; 1 × chest wide-angle HD camera
  • Audio System: Spatial microphone array; 40 W full-range speaker
  • Connectivity: RJ45 Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt, USB-C, HDMI
  • Safety: CE and FCC certified; mmWave radar sensing
  • Weight: 8.5
  • Total degrees of freedom: 32
  • Camera: 2 x 8 MP cameras
  • Audio Input: 2 x microphones, 1 x 4-channel microphone

Tags

  • Peer Group: Desktop social robot

Comparable Systems

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