Chinese robotics company shows off a Westworld-style robot face

A video from a China-based company showing a human-like robot face is spreading online. It's giving major Westworld vibes.

AheadForm is a Chinese robotics company founded in 2024 working on combining realistic humanoid robots with artificial intelligence in order to interact with humans.

"With expressive facial features, moving eyes, and synchronized speech, the robot can convey emotions and understand human non-verbal cues, making interactions more natural and engaging," AheadForm says on its website.

The video making the rounds shows only the face portion of the robot and features the robot blinking, moving its eyes, and making human-like facial expressions.

According to AheadForm, the face robot in the video, which is called the AheadForm Origin M1, "integrates a full facial actuation system with up to 25 micro motors" in order to achieve gestures that look real and human.

AheadForm's website features humanoid robots as part of the company's Lan Series as well as an Elven character dubbed ELF V1.

“Within ten years, we might interact with robots and feel like they are almost human; maybe in 20 years, they could walk normally and perform some tasks just like a human,” AheadForm founder Hu Yuhang said last year in an interview with the South China Morning Post.