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AgiBot
PrivateOne of the world’s highest-volume humanoid manufacturers, combining embodied AI models with large-scale robot production.
Founded 2023$100M raised
Humanoid Robots
About AgiBot
AgiBot, also known as Zhiyuan Robotics, is a Shanghai-based robotics company founded in 2023 that develops general-purpose embodied AI and humanoid robots for industrial, commercial, research, and future consumer applications. The company has rapidly become one of China’s leading humanoid developers, combining vertically integrated hardware with large-scale embodied AI models and data collection. Its product portfolio includes the Yuanzheng, Lingxi, and Genie robot families, alongside the GO-1 embodied AI foundation model and the open-source AgiBot World dataset containing more than one million real-world manipulation trajectories. AgiBot has also emerged as one of the world’s highest-volume humanoid manufacturers, reaching unicorn status within its first year of operation.
Technical Profile
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Technology Snapshot
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Hardware GenerationGen 1
Flagship PlatformA2-Ultra
Deployments50
AI Stack
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01ROS2
02PyTorch
A2-Ultra Specs
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Battery Life4 hours
Payload Capacity15 kg
Speed5 km/h
Degrees of Freedom38
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01CE
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Latest Updates
May 29, 2026Company MilestoneCorporate
AgiBot Genie Envisioner-Sim 2.0 ranks No. 1 on WorldArena benchmarkAgiBot said its Genie Envisioner-Sim 2.0 world model ranked first on the WorldArena Track 1 benchmark for embodied AI world-model perception and action response.
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Funding Rounds
2023-04-01Series A$600M
2023-06-01Seed$200M
2024-08-01Series B$1.20B
2025-01-01Series C$2.10B
AgiBot History
- February 27, 2023
AgiBot is founded in Shanghai
AgiBot was founded in February 2023 by Peng Zhihui and Deng Taihua, both former Huawei engineers. Peng had become a celebrity in China's tech community through his Bilibili channel showcasing DIY robotics. He joined Huawei in 2020 through its "Genius Youth" program but departed in December 2022 to build humanoid robots.
ShanghaiHuawei alumni - May 31, 2023
AgiBot reaches unicorn status within months
The company secured funding at extraordinary pace. Within months, AgiBot closed two Series A rounds backed by Sequoia Capital China, Hillhouse Capital, and BYD, reaching unicorn status. By December 2023, the company had completed five funding rounds.
Series AUnicorn - 2024
AgiBot expands its robot portfolio
AgiBot's product lineup expanded rapidly in 2024: Yuanzheng (full-size bipedal humanoid), Lingxi (compact, developer-oriented), and Genie (wheeled dual-arm robot).
YuanzhengLingxiGenie - December 16, 2024 - 2025
Mass production begins and dataset ambitions scale
By late 2024, AgiBot began mass production, hitting 1,000 units by January 2025. The company set targets of 3,000-5,000 robots for 2025 and released AgiBot World, described as the largest humanoid manipulation dataset.
Mass productionAgiBot World - March 10, 2025
AgiBot launches GO-1 embodied foundation model
AgiBot announced GO-1, a Vision-Language-Latent-Action embodied foundation model that enables robots to learn actions from human videos.
GO-1foundation model - April 17, 2026
A3 interactive humanoid introduced
At its April 17, 2026 Partner Conference, AGIBOT introduced the A3 humanoid (173 cm, 55 kg) with long endurance (~10h), fast battery swap, UWB swarm positioning, and interactive sensing for stage/education/customer-engagement scenarios.
A3interactiveentertainment