A humanoid named Moya has attracted attention on Chinese social media in recent days. Unveiled in Shanghai by the company DroidUp, Moya is being described as the world's first fully biomimetic AI robot built into the world, meaning in practice that it is a robot designed not only to think, but to essentially exist in a human-like manner.

In the videos released by the Soft China Morning Post, Moya appears walking with stable steps, slightly swinging his arms, adjusting his trunk, maintaining eye contact and showing micro facial expressions, and I know, he is still a little cross-eyed and quite artificial, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt at this start, because he even showed subtle smiles.

The company claims that the robot's gait reaches 92% accuracy in relation to the human pattern, it's not about running, it's not about jumping, it's about looking natural, at 1.65 cm tall and about 32 kg, Moya was built with proportions close to those of an adult woman, according to DroidUp, it also maintains a surface temperature between 32º and 36º, a detail designed to make the interaction more realistic, but the central point is in the concept behind it, built-in artificial intelligence.

Instead of living only on servers, Moya was designed to perceive, reason and act within a body. This approach completely changes the relationship between software and hardware, the body stops being just a support and becomes part of intelligence itself.

The public's reactions reflect a known phenomenon, some people are fascinated, others uncomfortable. It's the so-called valley of strangeness, when something is almost human, but not quite yet, DroidUp apparently isn't trying to escape that valley, it's trying to go through it.

Instead of focusing on factories or heavy industrial tasks, the company is targeting applications in healthcare, education and commercial environments, places where presence, communication and appearance matter as much as function. Moya was not designed to carry boxes, she was designed to talk, help and accompany.

The robot is expected to hit the market around the end of 2026 with an estimated starting price of about $7,700, and yes, friends, when machines start imitating human gestures, expressions, and behaviors, you might wonder, where do they learn all that? The answer may lie in worlds that do not physically exist.