New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch
AI AND ML
They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support
One of China’s emerging humanoid robotics companies has launched its most-realistic looking models yet and says it has already taken over 13,000 orders for the $17,600/ £13,300 machines.
Here’s a shot of the new machines.
You’re looking at the UWORLD U1, which Chinese company UBTECH says enjoys 88 degrees of freedom thanks to use of “a proprietary dual-pivot biomimetic cervical spine, enabling it to replicate up to 90 percent of fundamental human movements.”
The company says the machines are suitable for “long-term companionship” due to what it claims is “the world's first emotion-aware LLM … capable of recognizing more than 20 fine-grained emotional states with an accuracy rate exceeding 90 percent.”
In its breathless announcement, UBTECH says the bots use a “biomimetic fast-and-slow brain architecture” that “draws on cognitive neuroscience principles, enabling a...
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