This Robot With a Working Human Face Is Incredibly Unsettling
Victor Tangermann
created: Feb. 8, 2026, 11:45 a.m. | updated: Feb. 12, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — plus sweaty human engineers, who were forced to accompany them along the way.
Coming in third place was a bipedal robot called Walker 2, by the Shanghai-based robotics company DroidUP, an impressive feat that required no battery swaps after an exhausting four hours and 25 minutes of running.
Now, the firm has turned its attention to something far more unsettling than watching a robot scuttle across the finish line.
DroidUP recently showed off Moya, a “warm” robot that features human-like skin and eerily animated moving facial features.
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