You might do a double take when you see this particular robot - and if you did you would not be alone.

 

看到这个特别的机器人时你可能一时反应不过来——如果是，不只你一个人这样。
 

 

Visitors to a recent exhibition in China were greeted by Jia Jia, a humanoid robot who is not only scarily lifelike, but intelligent and quick-witted too.

 

The female robot has been called a 'robot goddess' by her hoards¹ of online fans, and some who met her at a recent exhibition were taken aback by her lifelike appearance.

 

Jia Jia stood near the entrance of the exhibition hall that hosted this year's 2016 Summer Davos Forum² in Tianjin, in a major port city in North China.

 

She was dressed in a traditional Chinese outfit³, hairstyle, complete with a classic hairpin⁴, and immediately caught the attention of passers-by.

 

This life-like cyborg is the brain child of engineer Chen Xiaoping and his colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China.

 

Her 'brain', which is essentially⁵ a huge online database, is connected to a cloud computing⁶ platform that allows her to enhance her ability to process emotions and speech as new data is uploaded.

 

Jia Jia can hold conversations with those who ask her questions and respond in less than a second.

 

Reports said she is also able to make micro-expressions and recognise the facial expressions of others.

 

She is thought to be one of a kind in China, although in the past few years there have been other similar 'smart' bots made by engineers.

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