Virtually Human

Jeanne Lim, co-creator of Sophia the Robot and founder of beingAI, has spent the past decade shaping AI beings that engage, inspire and uplift. Now, she’s on a mission to show that AI can be a force for good

By Rachel Duffell

When Jeanne Lim first met David Hanson, the founder of Hanson Robotics, it was at the Hong Kong Science Park and Hanson was carrying around his humanoid robot, Han. “He put down this robot and gave me a talk and it was like being sprinkled with fairy dust,” recalls Lim, who subsequently signed up to a full-time marketing position at the robotics start-up. Lim had spent more than two decades in corporate tech at Apple, Cisco and Dell as a product marketer before stepping away to become an angel investor, where she encountered Hanson Robotics. Despite a love for technology, she says she “had no experience in robotics and was not interested in sci-fi”. Yet that meeting with Hanson would prove pivotal. Hanson’s robotics company, which he founded in 2013,…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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