The company Ex-Robots hired women to pose as humanoid robots at the World Robotics Conference.
From August 21 to 25, the World Conference on Robotics was held in Beijing. During this event, robots amazed spectators with the realism of their movements and their gait. And for good reason: they were not in fact e
As reported by the American website Futurism, these machines were actually women disguised as humanoid robots. The Chinese company Ex-Robots hired two women to pose as robots.
“A lot of people think they’re robots without realizing that they’re actually two human beings dressed as robots,” wrote journalist Byron Wan on X (ex-Twitter), who had already published two videos showing “two human beings imitating the movements of robots that ‘looked’ like humans.”
A surprising revelation
In addition to the statements of this journalist, the publication of a photo of one of the two women hired by Ex-Robotst, in which she is seen eating, has definitively put an end to this very convincing illusion.
Ex-Robots did not reveal why it used humans to pose as robots at the conference. That is particularly surprising given that the company showed its progress to Reuters in June, including one of its robots imitating a female employee who moved her head, smiled and stuck out her tongue.
Its CEO, Li Boyang, had then assured that his robot was capable of expressing emotions, but also of “perceiving the surrounding environment and having appropriate facial reactions”.
