Six wheeled humanoid robots spent 24 hours working inside a Shanghai convenience store. Four passed their final assessment, while two failed.
Chinese robotics company AgiBot has published results from its “Robots Never Clock Out” trial, held from 10 a.m. on November 2 to 10 a.m. on November 3 in an operating store in Shanghai’s Xuhui District. The company reported that its six Genie G2 robots completed 1,730 tasks during the livestreamed test, with more than two million people watching across online platforms.
The robots were assigned different jobs spanning customer assistance, coffee preparation, hot-food service, shelf inspections, restocking and cleaning. According to AgiBot, they processed 147 coffee orders and handled hundreds of other retail activities over the day-long trial. The event was designed to test how its robots cope with the changing demands of a working store rather than a single isolated demonstration.
The final scorecard was mixed. Four robots passed the company’s assessment, which considered factors including task completion, customer feedback, response times and handling unexpected situations. Two failed. Korean outlet Electronic Times reported that the shelf-stocking robot was marked down for insufficient initiative, while a cleaning robot strayed outside the store after encountering a full rubbish bin.
The results also come with important limits. AgiBot has not provided a full breakdown of human interventions, teleoperation, charging stops or independent verification of task success. The 1,730 figure is a company-reported count of completed activities, not evidence that all six machines operated autonomously throughout the entire period.
