Noetix X-Head 1 (Xiao Yue)

X-Head 1, sold in China under the name Xiao Yue, is the smallest member of Noetix Robotics' bionic line: a head alone, with 30 active degrees of freedom and no body beneath it. It sits below the company's stationary Xiao Nuo 3.0 in joint count and well below the wheeled W1, and it is the one the maker pitches at developers rather than at buyers of a finished service robot. The headline change in this generation is size, not motion. The company states that a more compact drive architecture cut overall dimensions by roughly 30% while keeping the same level of facial freedom, and that the neck mechanism was redesigned to move more smoothly, take up less room and reduce mechanical interference between parts. That is an unusually specific admission of what the previous generation cost in packaging. What the head does is watch and answer. Vision identifies where the user is and the eyes track them during conversation, lip shapes are generated in real time to match the synthesised speech, and the robot draws on separate skill, motion and emotion libraries depending on what it judges the user wants. The company also lists expression recognition and imitation — the machine reads a face and mirrors it. Noetix publishes an Android SDK, demonstration samples and developer documentation for the head, which is what separates this product from the rest of the range. The stated uses follow from that: home companionship and household assistant duties, reception and exhibition guiding, licensed character tie-ins where the face is dressed as a known property, and third-party application development. The company has not published dimensions, mass, power draw or a price for the head; the CNY 99,000 to 130,000-plus figures quoted at the 2026 World Robot Conference covered the bionic line as a whole and were not tied to this model.

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