Creepy Chinese machines go on display at the World Robot conference

With long flowing hair and rosy red cheeks, you might do a double take when you see Jia Jia, a humanoid robot.

Dubbed the “robot goddess”, Jia Jia is being taught deep learning abilities, including understanding human language, and detecting facial expressions.

The life-like cyborg was displayed at the 2016 World Robot Conference, where she pulled in huge crowds eager to see her abilities, the Daily Mail reports.

Jia Jia is the brain child of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, who displayed her at the World Robot Conference in Beijing this week.

The humanoid robot is programmed to recognise human and machine interaction, with autonomous position navigation and services based on cloud technology.

At the event, JiaJia demonstrated her ability to communicate with humans, detecting facial expressions and responding to questions.

When asked by an audience-member 'What kind of skills do you have?', Jia Jia replied: 'I can talk with you. I can recognise faces. I can identify gender and age of people standing front of me, and I can detect your facial expressions.'

But these skills are no mean feat for Jia Jia's developers.

Speaking to The Mirror, Lu Dongcai, who leads the Jia Jia project, said: 'There are a few challenges about her.

“Firstly, she has to receive not only language but also facial expressions.

“Like what she showed just now, she can observe your facial expression, and give a natural response, so that you can see her intelligence.”

Alongside Jia Jia, several other advanced robots were showcased at the World Robot Conference. 

In the exhibition area, a badminton robot demonstrated a badminton match with staff, while a bionic bird and butterfly was also on display.