Giving Robots Personality

Embodied character design for robots and interactive AI

As robots become more intelligent, another question becomes increasingly important:

Who are they?

I help robotics and AI companies create the character layer of an embodied machine—its personality, voice, humour, movement, timing, reactions and emotional behaviour.

People read enormous meaning into tiny choices: a pause, a glance, a hesitation or the way a robot reacts when it makes a mistake. These details can turn a machine that performs tasks into a character people genuinely enjoy interacting with.

I can help with

• Character and personality development

• Voice and conversational style

• Humour and comedic timing

• Movement, gaze and physical behaviour

• Emotional reactions and readability

• Character bibles and behavioural rules

• Prototype interaction testing

• Ongoing character and performance direction

I don’t make robots more human. I help make them more characterful.

If you’re building a robot people will live with, work beside or talk to, let’s give it a little more life.