The 2016 World Robot Conference is underway in Beijing, and has drawn big industry names from countries such as the United States, Japan and South Korea. One of the highlights of this year's event are so-called 'humanoid-robots', which have the ability to accurately interact with humans.

Human-like robots attract attention of many

This intelligent human-like robot is jiajia. Developed by the University of Science and Technology of China, Jiajia has the ability of understanding human language, detecting facial expressions, and making body movements.

With uncanny physical similarities to humans, such human-like robots have been stealing the show at the 2016 World Robot Conference in Beijing.

"There are a few challenges about her. Firstly, she has to receive not only language communication but also facial expressions. Like what she showed just now, she can observe your facial expression, and give a natural response, so that you can see her intelligence," Exhibitor Lu Dongcai said.

And check out another human-like robot who impressed visitors with his calligraphy skills, by using a similar style of calligraphy used by legendary philosopher Wang Yangming.

Despite the rapid development in human-like robots, experts say the technology is far from mature.

"Artificial intelligence has to go through three stages. The first stage is being made-by-humans. The second stage is copying humans, and the third one is replacing humans. Right now, we are in the stage of made-by-human. If we continue at this pace, we still have a long way to go before we reach the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence, which is that humans will be replaced or made by robots," Xia Jiantong, Director of Recon Group, said.

The World Robot Conference kicked off last Friday. Around 150 exhibitors showcased their latest robot inventions there and the conference will last through to Tuesday.