When asked to review ACE Robotics’ progress over the past six months, Wang Xiaogang, chairman of ACE Robotics and co-founder of SenseTime, spoke for more than ten minutes without pause.
Founded in July 2025, ACE Robotics was a late entrant to the embodied intelligence sector. But over the past year, the company has become one of the field’s more active new players.
On the model side, ACE Robotics’ newly released Kairos 3.0, a world model for robotics, achieved what the company described as state-of-the-art results in four global embodied intelligence benchmark tests. Its open-source Kairos 3.0-4B was also reportedly the first open-source model of its size to directly control an embodied intelligence robot body on device.
On the data side, ACE Robotics has proposed a “human-centered” environmental data collection approach. Instead of relying only on humans teleoperating robots, the company collects human interactions with real environments at scale. It said this has expanded world model training data to one million hours, ten times the volume of traditional real-robot data collection.
Then there is deployment. Half a year ago, ACE Robotics’ A1 module was mainly deployed in quadruped robots for road inspection. Today, A1 has entered hotels, unmanned retail stores, unmanned logistics warehouses, and other scenarios through robots of different forms.
