Screen-face robots · Rotating display head · OEM / ODM · Shenzhen
A face on a screen,
on a head that turns
A round display is easy to buy. A round display that turns toward whoever is speaking, holds an expression through a sentence and reads as present rather than powered on — that is a mechanism, a latency budget and an animation system working together. We build that whole chain: the gimbal, the display stack, the far-field audio front end, and the expression engine that runs on top.
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- In-house
- PCB · firmware · app · ID
- Custom
- Product development
- Shenzhen
- Development & production
- CE / FCC
- Certification support
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Face-and-head formats we build
Round screen with a turning neck, flat screen with a fixed head, or a small display on a two-axis arm: the format decides viewing angle, which decides the display spec, which decides the price. We build all three shapes.
The latency budget nobody plans for
A face that answers a second late reads as broken, and the second is spent in five places: wake-word detection, uplink, model inference, downlink, and the animation that follows. Teams usually optimise the model and ignore the other four. In practice the biggest wins are on-device endpointing, a pre-rolled animation that starts before the first word arrives, and a face that keeps breathing while it thinks — which is why we treat the animation rig as part of the latency budget rather than decoration.
Screen-face hardware in production
A face on a screen is a display problem, a gimbal problem and a thermal problem at the same time. These are the assemblies we already build; the display-and-gimbal stack is what we reuse when a client wants a different character on the same body.
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Bring the AI stack your market needs
Our firmware is decoupled from any single provider. Depending on where you sell, your data-residency rules and your budget, we connect the device to the right LLM, speech and IoT cloud. These are the kinds of services we have integrated.
For China
- Baidu AI Cloud Solution sales partner Cloud AI and voice services
- Mainstream Chinese LLMs Several to choose from, per project
- Speech recognition & synthesis Major speech engines
- IoT provisioning & branded app Device setup and app under your brand
- Audio / video storage & delivery Audio / video cloud for content
For global markets
- Leading overseas LLMs Chosen per market and language
- Realtime voice dialogue Realtime voice models
- Neural speech synthesis Speech recognition and natural voices
- Device connectivity & fleet management Connect and manage devices at scale
- EU / US data hosting Data kept in the region you sell in
Dialogue languages
60 languages and regional variants, one board for every market
Voice dialogue is up and running, with speech recognition and synthesis in every language below; the China version adds a wide choice of Mandarin voices and four dialects. Pick a voice per market, or have a brand voice made.
Europe
- English (UK)
- French
- German
- Spanish (Spain)
- Italian
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Dutch
- Polish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Czech
- Slovak
- Hungarian
- Romanian
- Bulgarian
- Greek
- Croatian
- Serbian
- Bosnian
- Slovenian
- Macedonian
- Albanian
- Danish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Finnish
- Estonian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
Americas
- Spanish (Argentina)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
Middle East & Central Asia
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Persian
- Turkish
- Azerbaijani
- Armenian
- Kazakh
- Uzbek
South Asia
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Urdu
- Gujarati
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Nepali
East & Southeast Asia
- Mandarin Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Mongolian
- Vietnamese
- Thai
- Lao
- Burmese
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Malay
- Filipino
Africa
- Swahili
China region
- Mandarin (many voices)
- English
- Cantonese
- Sichuanese
- Henan dialect
- Hunan dialect
Developed for your brand and channel
Desktop companion brands
A 15–20 cm desk robot whose face is the product: expression, gaze and voice as one behaviour.
Car aftermarket and accessory brands
A dashboard or console-mounted robot, developed as an aftermarket accessory with mounting and power designed for the cabin.
Smart-home and hub makers
A physical presence for an assistant that currently exists only as a voice.
IP and character licensing
Your own character’s face on a display, with an expression set authored to the style guide.
Why screen-face product teams work with us
👁️ Expression engineered as latency
The gap between the last syllable and the right expression is what makes a face feel alive — we budget it in milliseconds, not adjectives.
⚙️ A gimbal that is quiet and stays centred
Gear train, encoder and homing designed so the head does not drift, hunt or buzz when it is holding still.
🎙️ Far-field audio that works in a car
Beamforming and echo cancellation tuned for road noise and cabin reflections — the part that decides whether it hears you at 100 km/h. Quantity and price quoted per project.
Show us the face you want
A sketch of the face, the distance the user sits at, and whether the head has to turn — with those three we can spec the display, the gimbal and the animation rig, and tell you where the latency will actually come from.
Before you spec a turning-head robot
- Is NomiOem the maker of NOMI?
- No. NomiOem is an independent manufacturer in Shenzhen; NOMI is a trademark of its owner and we are not affiliated with it. We build screen-face robots with a servo gimbal for brands developing their own.
- What decides whether the head movement feels natural?
- The gimbal range, the acceleration curve, and how the screen content moves with it. A head that turns at constant speed reads as a camera; one that eases in and settles reads as attention.
- Can we use an existing body?
- For a body already in production and not committed exclusively to another channel, yes: your screen UI, voice, colours and packaging. A different head shape or a new gimbal is a development project.