Somewhere between science fiction and a tokenized balance sheet, a project called Eastworlds is trying to make humanoid robots an actual business. The embodied AI accelerator, part of the Virtuals Protocol ecosystem, has partnered with Unitree Robotics to deploy physical robots across Southeast Asia, targeting sectors like retail, hospitality, and security.
Eastworlds has over 30 Unitree G1 humanoid robots already in its fleet and a headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
From digital agents to physical robots
Eastworlds launched on February 23, 2026, positioning itself as the bridge between Virtuals Protocol’s digital AI agent ecosystem and tangible, walking-around-a-hotel-lobby robotics.
The Virtuals Protocol ecosystem now includes over 18,000 tokenized AI agents. Until Eastworlds, those agents lived entirely in the digital realm. This partnership with Unitree Robotics represents the protocol’s first serious push into embodied AI, meaning artificial intelligence that interacts with the physical world through hardware.
