Recently unveiled at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the so-called Guanghua No 1 is about 165 cm tall, weighs about 62 kg and reportedly displays facial expressions.

Source: Fudan University

The emotionally responsive humanoid robot comes with 45 intelligent joints that have a hierarchical generative embodied brain model that enables it to move its hands appropriately and to walk with an upright posture.

Additionally, Guanghua No 1 is equipped to display four emotions — happiness, anger, sadness and joy — on its facial screen. This, according to its developers, is expected to make the robot ideal for elder care applications.

“Providing care with an emotionless, mechanical entity would fail to offer the warmth akin to that of a family member. Genuine care necessitates emotional intelligence,” the researchers explained.

Guanghua No 1’s emotional intelligence was influenced by a brain-inspired motivation and dopamine reward mechanism. It also uses multi-level coordinated incentive algorithms that produce human-like perceptions and behaviors.

Trials of the Guanghua No 1 robot will begin later in 2024.