Roboy is an advanced humanoid robot that was developed at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, and was publicly presented on March 8, 2013.

Originally designed to emulate humans with the future possibility of helping out in daily environments,[1] Roboy is a project that has involved both engineers and scientists.

Both the team members and the partners of the Roboy project share a commitment toward continued research in the area of soft robotics.

Led by Owen Holland of the University of Sussex,[4] the ECCE project developed a new kind of robot that was modeled after the human anatomy.

[7] Unlike more traditional robots, which have motors in their joints, Roboy is tendon-driven, allowing for more fluent, human-like movements.

Today, Roboy Junior is meant to be an initial spark to trigger the work towards a generic anthropomimetic research platform[citation needed].

Their goals are to find insights on how to control complex soft robots and also to bring virtual brains into physical reality.

[7] The robotics research group at the University of Melbourne has a strong theoretical background in controlling muscle-like tendon-driven systems.

At Ars Electronica Festival 2019, Roboy naturalized people via a chatbot and contributed to the formulation of a constitutional right for artificial intelligences .