DroidUp Rena

Rena (睿娜) is DroidUp's expressive-face robot, and the direct ancestor of the face on Moya, the biomimetic humanoid the company unveiled in February 2026. Where almost every Chinese humanoid of this generation is engineered around walking and payload, Rena is engineered around one much narrower problem: making a mechanical face read as a human one at conversational distance. The mechanism is unusually well documented for a Chinese product page. The skin is high-grade silicone with wax-figure-level texture and skin tone, and a semi-permanent make-up that can be reworked. Under it, the eyelids open and close through a steel-cable and hemisphere arrangement adjustable between 50° and 80°; eyebrows and cheeks are pulled by dedicated cables with a maximum travel of 5 mm. Four servos drive the eyes, four the eyebrows and eight the mouth, and DroidUp counts 25 degrees of freedom of expression in total — enough, in its description, for smiles, frowns and the range in between. The neck is a separate module: three servo motors giving three rotational degrees of freedom, used to track and follow a person's head rather than merely to nod. Below the neck, Rena has two arms and an autonomous navigation base, so she moves through a room instead of standing on a plinth. Unlike a lot of android-style robots, Rena has a working history rather than a demo reel. DroidUp lists three deployment lines. In cultural performance she has appeared in Kunqu opera costume at the Guangfulin relics park in Shanghai, with body control and expression control synchronised to the role. In education she is placed in schools — Kongjiang High School and Chuntian School among them — as a teaching platform for expression control and mechanical design, with jointly built courses. In public service she does exhibition guiding and reception with voice interaction and self-navigation, aimed at stations, banks, museums and shopping centres. What DroidUp does not publish is as telling as what it does. There is no height, no mass, no battery figure, no runtime, no price — the page ends in an enquiry form. The servo count also does not add up to the claimed degrees of freedom on its own (16 servos for eyes, brows and mouth against 25 stated DoF), so the remaining motion presumably comes from the neck module and from cable linkages driving more than one feature. Read Rena as what she is: a specialist head-and-torso platform sold to venues that need a face, not a general-purpose robot.

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Rena — popiersie z silikonową skórą i mechanizmem mimiki, materiał producenta

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