New humanoid robot built for companionship with 90% accuracy in recognizing emotions (Jijo Malayil, Jul 01, 2026, Interesting Engineering)
The full-size humanoid features 88 degrees of freedom and a dual-pivot biomimetic cervical spine that enables it to reproduce up to 90 percent of fundamental human movements. It is powered by what UBTech describes as the world’s first emotion-aware LLM for long-term companionship, capable of identifying more than 20 fine-grained emotional states with over 90 percent accuracy.
…there’s no way there are that many emotions.