Get to know the AheadForm project, a startup focused on facial expressions for robots.

Different from other startups, AheadForm is focusing on the heads of robots, trying to create facial expressions and emotions in a natural way. Thus avoiding getting close to the “uncanny valley effect,” because we know that nobody wants to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and see a robot with a completely deformed face standing in the hallway like a haunting.

Until something at this level reaches the public, it should still take a few years, because even if it looks real in the video, there are probably only a few test models in laboratories, something totally different when it comes to mass production, which first needs a lot of money or demand.

Another problem I see is that the video may be showing the part that looks good, but it’s possible that from other angles and expressions it is still within the uncanny valley effect.

Even a paper on science was released with the project.

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There is a website from aheadform that shows more models being built in laboratories. But the truth is that I don’t know how real and functional the project is, only time will tell.