Humanoid
AheadForm 首形科技
Builds the most lifelike expressive robot heads publicly shown — Origin M1 and the singing Origin F1. A face and human-robot-interaction specialist, not a walking-humanoid maker.
Key facts
- AheadForm (首形科技) was founded in 2024 by Yuhang Hu, who built the expression-predicting robot 'Emo' at Columbia's Creative Machines Lab.
- The Origin M1 head, revealed around October 2025, uses roughly 25 micro-motors for lifelike blinking, gaze shifts, and nods, and later gained a matching half-body.
- The Origin F1 head, demonstrated March 8, 2026, performed a live singing routine, switched between custom character skins, and ran on a multimodal 'Omni' model for vision, audio, and language.
- AheadForm's facial micro-expression realism is among the most lifelike publicly demonstrated by any robotics group to date.
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