At 17 inches tall and 6 pounds, the artificial Zeno is the culmination of five years of work by Hanson and a small group of engineers, designers and programmers at his company, Hanson Robotics. They believe there's an emerging business in the design and sale of lifelike robotic companions, or social robots.

May 2010 Update: Unfortunately it seems that this product is no longer supported. The Hanson Robotics site (hansonrobotics.wordpress.com) does not talk about it anymore and the previous site dedicated to Zeno (zenosworld.com) currently links to a completely different site.