Video: Humanoid's Alpha reenacts Rowan Atkinson's Love Actually scene

Humanoid, a UK-based robotics firm, released a holiday video featuring its AI-powered humanoid robot HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal reenacting the iconic gift-wrapping scene from the 2003 Christmas film "Love Actually," originally performed by Rowan Atkinson. The one-and-a-half-minute video humorously mirrors the original scene’s tone, showing Alpha as a shop clerk who offers to gift-wrap a small robot. The robot’s exaggerated and increasingly elaborate wrapping, complete with festive decorations, highlights both comedic elements and the robot’s dexterity and learning process. The scene culminates with Alpha recognizing the excess and discreetly replacing the over-wrapped package with a simpler one, underscoring themes of adaptation, judgment, and the trial-and-error nature of teaching humanoid robots. HMND 01 Alpha, standing nearly six feet tall and weighing about 200 pounds, was built in just five months and achieved stable bipedal walking within 48 hours of assembly. The robot has logged