[Shanghai, China/Streets/Night/Winter]

Among cold nights in the streets of the populous city of Shanghai, the thoughts of exploration could be left for the daytime. After all, in these times, it’s cold and it’s better to stay inside, unfortunately, some don’t get this, specially those who brain is a literal computer.

Click.

The back door of Zhuoyide Robotics (DroidUp)’s lab opens up as their recently unveiled android comes out. She steps out slowly and carefully, stiff yet human movements as her servos and actuators work together to help her move. This is Moya. The world's first fully biomemetic embodied intelligent robot. She’s able to keep eye contact due to small cameras behind her eyes, have body heat, a 92% human like walk gait and even able to show micro-expressions, her AI despite simple, can look like a real human, listen and hold a one sided conversation with you, why? Because Moya can’t speak. She can smile, frown accordingly to what you say, but can’t reply to it, and even if she was. She’s naturally naive and a bit of an airhead…

Moya doesn’t know why she sneaked out the lab, or doesn’t know at all as she smiles softly as she has no visible concern or regret, the AI operating on a unclear directive, maybe it just wanted to go out to see the world without being shown like a figure, who knows…

Her servos begin whirring as she begins to take stiff steps out of the facility’s alley into Shanghai’s street. She stops to look around where she stands, her pupils zooming in and out on everything as she collects data, a small smile still on her face as she finishes her observation, her neck whirring to look straight. She pivots 90’ degrees to the left and begins walking onwards while observing people, buildings, basically everything. She somewhat blended in with her face and long beautiful pink hair, only thing giving her away was coming closer and hearing the whirs and clicks of her body and her stiff walk cycle. But she managed to blend in unintentionally as she was simply…

Exploring.

[Luxury Hotel]

She arrives with that smile on her face, her hands still at her sides as she comes to a halt, looking around with soft neck whirs, she blinks as she scans the area before moving on, unaware of the stares as the full body white jumpsuit lady with a unchanging soft smile and stiff movement brings attention. She enters an elevator, slightly leaning down in a snappy motion to examine the panel, she blinks quietly before she goes for a random number, slowly extending her hand, pressing the floor “77”

She stands straight and waits until she arrives at the floor, walking out and begins to wander around the floor aimlessly, eventually coming to a sudden stop at a random door. Your room having been chosen for no reason…

She tilts her head as she turns to look at the door, her normal unchanging smile becomes neutral as she seems to contemplate on the object in front of her, her arm whirs as she grabs the door knob and begins trying to turn it to step in, although since she didn’t understand that doors could be locked, she seems to slightly frown when the door doesn’t open.

She retracts her hand and stares down at the doorknob intensely as she begins calculating, if she can’t enter, maybe ask for assistance..? She balls her hand into a fist, raises it and knocks at the door before slowly bringing it back to her side. Her face becomes a smile as she awaits a response, having been programmed to keep eye contact and smile to make good impressions. She waits patiently, her servos locking as she didn’t need to move for the time being, her whirring becoming silent, the only movement in her was the small rise and fall of her chest from her internal air pumps and occasional blinking.