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China: Dog Dressed in Human Clothes Sits Upright on Sofa

On February 4, 2026, in Hebei, China, a pet dog dressed in a padded jacket, pants, and a headscarf sat upright on a sofa, creating a humorous, human-like scene that drew laughter as it calmly looked ahead.

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China: ‘Smiling Face’ Optical Illusion Box Created by Parrots

On January 21, 2026, in Anhui, eastern China, a video showed a white box with two round holes and a curved opening below, forming the shape of a strange smiling face. When the filmer touched the holes, two large eyes suddenly appeared inside, giving the illusion of a human-like face staring outward. The image looked unsettling at first. The effect was created by two parrots positioned behind the holes. Their dark pupils and surrounding white feathers produced the illusion from the chosen angle.

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China: Raccoon Sits Cross-Legged While Playing With Prayer Beads

A small raccoon in Qingdao, Shandong Province, was captured sitting upright and holding a long string of prayer beads on Tuesday, January 13. The raccoon appeared unusually focused as it slowly manipulated the beads with its front paws in a human-like pose.

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AI-powered industrial robot

A Yaskawa Electric Corp. robot packs a parcel during an international robot exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2025, with its arms having a human-like range of movement.

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AI-powered industrial robot

A Yaskawa Electric Corp. robot packs a parcel during an international robot exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2025, with its arms having a human-like range of movement.

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High-tech industry in China

Photo shows a robot with a human-like face at a robot exhibition in Beijing on Aug. 21, 2024.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A human-like robot performs face-changing in Sichuan opera for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Human-like robots perform lion dance for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Human-like robots perform lion dance for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A human-like robot performs face-changing in Sichuan opera for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Human-like robots perform lion dance for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Human-like robots perform lion dance for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A human-like robot performs face-changing in Sichuan opera for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Human-like robots perform lion dance for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A human-like robot performs face-changing in Sichuan opera for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Human-like robots perform lion dance for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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Robot Show

HANGZHOU, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A human-like robot performs face-changing in Sichuan opera for visitors at the Hangzhou Wensan Digital District Lantern Festival event in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Feb 12, 2025.

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CIFTIS

BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 - Meituan showcases the world's first human-like robot smart pharmacy solution at the 2024 China Beijing International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China, September 14, 2024.

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2023 World Robot Conference Public Open Day

BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 19, 2023 - The audience interacts with a "human-like dexterous manipulator robot" at the 2023 World Robot Conference in Beijing, China, August 19, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - A human-like intelligent service robot shoots a basket during the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - A human-like intelligent service robot shoots a basket during the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - A human-like intelligent service robot shoots a basket during the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - A human-like intelligent service robot shoots a basket during the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots perform a thousand-hand Guanyin dance at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robot booth at the 2023 WAIC in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Human-like Intelligent Service Robo at The 2023 WAIC in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robots booth at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Held in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 6, 2023 - Human-like intelligent service robot perform for the audience at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.

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Female robot

OSAKA, Japan - Guests chat with a robot resembling a woman at Takashimaya department store in Osaka on May 1, 2013. The humanoid developed jointly by robot researcher Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International is capable of speaking and makes human-like facial expressions.

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Robot researchers develop 'android' phone

TOKYO, Japan - A woman holds prototypes of the Elfoid, an android (not Android) mobile phone, developed by the Kyoto Prefecture-based Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, during a media event in Tokyo on March 3, 2011. The phone, with its human-like appearance, is intended to make users feel closer to their conversation partners and is soft to the touch, like human skin.

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Human-like robot

TOKYO, Japan - A woman-like robot smiles during a demonstration in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2010. A group of institutes including the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Osaka University, jointly developed the robot using silicon for her skin.

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Institute develops robot that can pose like fashion model

KOBE, Japan - A robot developed by the Robot Research Institute at the New Industry Research Organization imitates a pose taken by a woman. The 160-centimeter robot can assume human-like postures by simultaneous control of its 16 joints used for limbs, neck, waist and other body parts. The institute hopes the robot will be used for fashion and other promotional events after its metal frame is furnished with polyethylene sheets to give it a human-like look.

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(2)Group unveils artificial muscle that works like fingers

KYOTO, Japan - An artificial hand using a human-like material that is capable of holding objects like real fingers holds a plastic bottle. Nobutaka Tsujiuchi, a professor of mechanical dynamics at Doshisha University, and the Kyoto-based software development company Squse developed the artificial muscle, probably the world's smallest.

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(1)Group unveils artificial muscle that works like fingers

KYOTO, Japan - An artificial finger using a human-like material moves like a real finger. The artificial muscle, probably the world's smallest, was developed by Nobutaka Tsujiuchi, a professor of mechanical dynamics at Doshisha University, and the Kyoto-based software development company Squse.

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(2)Group unveils artificial muscle that works like fingers

KYOTO, Japan - An artificial hand using a human-like material that is capable of holding objects like real fingers holds a plastic bottle. Nobutaka Tsujiuchi, a professor of mechanical dynamics at Doshisha University, and the Kyoto-based software development company Squse developed the artificial muscle, probably the world's smallest. (Kyodo)

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(1)Group unveils artificial muscle that works like fingers

KYOTO, Japan - An artificial finger using a human-like material moves like a real finger. The artificial muscle, probably the world's smallest, was developed by Nobutaka Tsujiuchi, a professor of mechanical dynamics at Doshisha University, and the Kyoto-based software development company Squse. (Kyodo)

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Institute develops robot that can pose like fashion model

KOBE, Japan - A robot developed by the Robot Research Institute at the New Industry Research Organization imitates a pose taken by a woman. The 160-centimeter robot can assume human-like postures by simultaneous control of its 16 joints used for limbs, neck, waist and other body parts. The institute hopes the robot will be used for fashion and other promotional events after its metal frame is furnished with polyethylene sheets to give it a human-like look. (Kyodo)

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Robot exhibition

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Honda displays its human-like robot ASIMO on April 2 at a robot exhibition ''ROBODEX2003'' in Yokohama. (Kyodo)

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Human-like robot

TOKYO, Japan - A woman-like robot smiles during a demonstration in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2010. A group of institutes including the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Osaka University, jointly developed the robot using silicon for her skin. (Kyodo)

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Robot researchers develop 'android' phone

TOKYO, Japan - A woman holds prototypes of the Elfoid, an android (not Android) mobile phone, developed by the Kyoto Prefecture-based Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, during a media event in Tokyo on March 3, 2011. The phone, with its human-like appearance, is intended to make users feel closer to their conversation partners and is soft to the touch, like human skin. (Kyodo)