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A Chinese robotics company named AheadForm has developed a humanoid robotic head that can express a wide range of realistic emotions. In a YouTube video, the robot’s head glances around with a ...

China’s humanoid robotics industry is entering a new phase, not just focused on mobility and industrial automation, but increasingly on something more human – the face. Recent developments in ...

Researchers at Columbia University published a study (via Science) in January 2026 that details their methods for getting a humanoid robot to look and sound a lot more like a person. They got it to ...

China has reportedly developed a robot that can respond with natural human facial expressions. The robot was created by Liu Xiaofeng, a professor at Hohai University in Jiangsu Province, and his ...

On the floor of the Ex-Robots factory in China’s northeastern coastal city of Dalian, engineers develop humanoid robots with a focus on enhancing facial expressions and emotions. Neck-length silicone ...

MACHINES could soon be able to read people’s facial expressions, no matter how subtle they are. So-called automatic expression analysis is difficult because people’s faces vary so much. Existing ...

China has reportedly created a new robot that supports a new algorithm that gives the humanoid human-like natural facial expressions. Liu Xiaofeng, a professor at Hohai University in Jiangsu Province, ...