Take a look inside China's 'Westworld' — a museum that's making customizable humanoid robots with 'goosebumps' and 'veins'

• The Dalian EX Future and Science Museum has an array of customizable robots.
• It features technology that involves scanning and 3D printing one's facial features and limbs.

A museum in China has taken a page out of science fiction and is creating lifelike robots with veins in their legs and goosebumps on their skin.

The EX Future and Science Museum in the Chinese city of Dalian shows off advanced forms of robotic technology aimed at making robots as customizable and lifelike as possible.

According to a tour of the museum's research and design center published by the Chinese state-linked media channel CGTN, the technicians at the museum can scan features and limbs to create dynamic 3D robots.

In a clip posted on YouTube, a journalist has her facial features scanned to "customize an android of her own." Parts of her body are then 3D printed. The video shows her controlling the movements of a 3D printed robotic limb via a wearable glove.

"The skin is made of medical-grade bionic silicone, and the goosebumps on the skin, the veins on the feet, and the palm lines — they're all very realistic," the museum's vice president, Yang Jianguo, told CGTN.

The museum's robots have also ventured outside of its compound. In a video uploaded to Facebook in November, one of the museum's robots wears a face shield and guides people to COVID-19 test sites in Dalian.

The museum, which opened in September 2021, also features robots modeled after Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs. The two robots are featured in a promotional clip for the exhibit uploaded in February, waving and wishing visitors a joyous Chinese New Year.

China has in recent years taken steps forward in the artificial intelligence industry, even creating lifelike and wildly popular AI idols to helm marketing campaigns. The country also deployed a host of robots during the Beijing Games, with robotic chefs preparing meals and robotic "waiters" lowering food onto tables.

In 2018, Guangdong-based sex doll makers WMDOLL developed an AI-driven sex doll equipped with a vocabulary database to answer basic questions. That same year, Chinese media outlet Sixth Tone reported that sex doll maker EXDOLL, a company also based in Dalian, was working on a "smart" sex doll that could do dishes and make small talk.