At the Ex-Robots factory in Dalian, a seaside city in northeastern China, engineers build humanoid robots with a focus on enhancing facial expressions and emotions.
Engineers create humanoid robots on the floor of the Ex-Robots facility in Dalian, a seaside city in northeastern China, with an emphasis on improving facial expressions and emotions. Silicone limbs and feet rest on a table next to neck-length masks made of the material; nearby, humanoid robots in different states of development and disembodied heads are on exhibit. A wall is covered in sketches of robot ideas.
Humanoid robots are the most sophisticated category of robotic devices, according to Ex-Robots Chief Executive Li Boyang. “We have our own software and algorithm teams,” Boyang stated. Everyone employs a variety of widely used, open-source basic models and methods. But our focus is mostly on developing the AI’s ability to identify and convey facial expressions and emotions.” A humanoid robot mimics the movements of an ex-Robots employee by moving its head, smiling, and sticking out its tongue. This is made possible by tiny motors placed in various locations across the robot’s head.
We’re working on the foundation model as well. We are developing a multimodal model that can express emotions. It is capable of interpreting its surroundings and giving relevant facial reactions, according to Li. Ex-Robots claimed that the production of a humanoid robot costs between 1.5 million yuan ($207,000) and 2 million yuan and that it takes two weeks to a month. Ex-Robots has a museum located in the same building as its factory, and one of its main uses for its robots to date has been exhibition.
Li thinks that in the future, humanoid robots will play a larger part in the education and healthcare sectors. “Health and psychological counseling are undoubtedly future application scenarios. In order to better understand supplemental treatment and early screening for emotional and psychological illnesses, we are now conducting related research,” he stated. “Moreover, I believe that emotional interaction has broader applications in service fields, such as those aimed at children.”
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