A visitor checks out a humanoid robot at an Agibot store in Shanghai on June 15. YIN LIQIN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE
Defining 2026 as the inaugural year for embodied artificial intelligence deployment, executives from Shanghai-based robot company Agibot said that the industry this year will witness embodied intelligence transitioning from technological validation to large-scale commercial application.
Yao Maoqing, partner and senior vice-president at Agibot, made the comments during an interview on Monday. This process will also indicate the industry's progress from customer pilots to closed-loop business models, he said.
In June, Agibot achieved production of 15,000 humanoid robots, making it an industry leader in both production speed and total output.
The three-year-old company has already accomplished a key milestone from laboratory demonstrations to real-world industrial production lines. From June 23 to 28, its flagship product underwent continuous 24/7 prototype validation on a tablet manufacturing line at Longcheer Technology in Nanchang, Jiangxi province.
