Ex-Robots in China Pioneers Advanced Humanoid Robots with Realistic Facial Expressions and Emotions
Ex-Robots in China is developing humanoid robots with enhanced facial expressions and emotions. The company focuses on enabling their AI to recognise and express a wide range of expressions. Humanoid robots at Ex-Robots can mimic human movements thanks to tiny motors installed in their heads.
The factory floor is covered in neck-length silicone masks, silicone arms and feet, disembodied heads, and humanoid robots in various stages of development. The walls are covered with drawings of robot ideas, demonstrating the company's commitment to innovation.
Ex-Robots CEO Li Boyang boasts that his team has its own software and algorithm specialists. He emphasises that humanoid robots are the most complex class of robotic products. While there are many basic models and algorithms available as open source, Ex-Robots concentrates on enabling their AI to recognise and express a wide range of expressions and emotions.
One of the most impressive demonstrations at the workplace features an Ex-Robots employee moving her head, smiling, and sticking out her tongue. A humanoid robot mimics her movements using tiny motors in its head. This demonstrates the company's dedication to developing robots capable of producing realistic and complex face emotions.
Li Boyang goes on to say that Ex-Robots is also developing a foundation model that is multi-modal and can communicate emotions. This smart model can understand its surroundings and provide appropriate facial feedback. The company's commitment to developing robots with greater emotional capacities distinguishes them in the business.
Producing a humanoid robot at Ex-Robots takes between two weeks to a month, with prices ranging from 1.5 million yuan ($207,000) to 2 million yuan. Currently, the main purpose of these robots is for display in museums, with one such museum housed in the same building as the factory. However, Li Boyang envisions a future where humanoid robots will play a larger role in the healthcare and education industries.
Li believes that psychological counselling and healthcare are viable applications for humanoid robots. Ex-Robots is already performing related research, looking into the possibility for supplemental treatment and early detection of emotional and psychological illnesses. Furthermore, Li envisions greater implications for emotional contact in service industries, particularly those geared towards children.
Ex-Robots in China is developing humanoid robots with enhanced facial expressions and emotions.
The company focuses on enabling their AI to recognise and express a wide range of expressions.
Humanoid robots at Ex-Robots can mimic human movements thanks to tiny motors installed in their heads.
Source: REUTERS