Destiny can run, dance and even perform Kung Fu moves, and Wallace, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, expects to see humanoids programmed to do laundry or cooking and cleaning.
He describes the humanoid as an “embodied AI model with the ability to speak, react and manipulate the real world”.
Like so much of our technology its basic hardware is built in China but NextGen Ri, where Wallace works as head of robotics, has a UK contract to build additional kit and customise those robots commercially.
Wallace designed a robotic dog for a national policing trial last summer, and now he is programming Destiny to perform tasks for businesses using instructions that train it like a pet.
“It might be a reward for staying stood up, but a punishment for falling over, and to get the higher reward it learns how to balance,” he said.