TMTPOST -- AgiBot, a rising force in embodied AI, unveiled major advancements in dual-arm robotics and TMTPO systems at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), as the Shanghai-based firm doubles down on its push toward real-world deployments and international expansion.
At the conference on July 27, AgiBot Partner and Embodied Intelligence Division President Yao Maoqing introduced “Genie Envisioner” (GE), an open-source world model platform tailored for dual-arm robots. Touted as an industry first, the system integrates prediction, control, and evaluation, offering an all-in-one framework to take robots from perception to execution.
Backed by proprietary data infrastructure, AgiBot also revealed AgiBot World, billed as the world’s largest real-world dataset for embodied AI. The company plans to release its next-generation dual-arm robot, Genie G2, with improvements in motion precision, scenario adaptability, and onboard data collection capabilities, aimed at industrial, commercial, and home use cases.
Luo Jianlan, Chief Scientist of Turing Smart Robotics
AgiBot is scaling quickly. It recently won a 78 million yuan contract from China Mobile to supply humanoid robots for customer-facing tasks in service halls. These bipedal units are also being prepped for deployment in hotels, banks, and other high-touch environments.
Chief Scientist Luo Jianlan noted that the firm’s multimodal large models are now trained entirely on real-machine data, a shift she said reflects the industry’s broader move from “demo-first” to full-stack commercialization.
He emphasized AgiBot’s focus on safety, scenario migration, and human-friendly design, distancing the company from high-profile robot malfunctions she attributed to poor engineering rather than autonomy risk.
Yao Maoqing, Partner and President of the Embodied Intelligence Division at AgiBot
Founded in early 2023, AgiBot has quickly become one of China’s most closely watched AI startups. Its co-founder and CTO, Peng Zhihui—known online as “Zhihuijun”—was a former “Huawei Genius Youth” and a widely followed figure in the hardware and open-source community.
In July, the company took a key step toward public listing. It moved to acquire a majority stake in Swancor Advanced Materials in a 2.1 billion yuan deal that would bring AgiBot to Shanghai’s STAR Market. With investors including Tencent, Baidu Ventures, Sequoia China, JD Technology, BYD, and Hillhouse Capital, AgiBot’s latest valuation reportedly exceeds 26 billion yuan.
Beyond humanoids, AgiBot is continuing to iterate its Lingxi quadruped series, with the new D1 Ultra targeting applications where cost, reliability, and terrain versatility are priorities. According to Yao, the product line shares components with humanoid systems, enabling scale efficiencies across the firm’s expanding hardware portfolio.
On July 26, Peng unveiled the company’s layered open-source robotics software stack—Lingqu OS—designed to accelerate industry adoption. The framework includes a real-time middleware layer (AimRT), a standardized intelligent agent service layer, and a toolchain for simulation, training, and deployment. The OS will begin rolling out in Q4 under an open co-development model.
With operational footprints already in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, AgiBot is pushing ahead with its “globalization through localization” strategy. Yao noted that while China remains hypercompetitive, overseas markets offer fertile ground for AI-native hardware to scale.
“Getting robots into factories is only the beginning,” Yao said. “Real traction will come from everyday environments—retail, service, education, and the home.”
