Embodied AI Enters Deployment Year One, and @AGIBOT_US put A3, X2, and G2 in front of the North American automation crowd 🤖 A3 and X2 showed the service side: performance, reception, guided tours, and real work already moving into restaurants and exhibition halls. G2 showed the industrial side: teleoperated wire-harness routing, connector mating, precise grasping, visual perception, dual-arm coordination, and Jenga stacking. That was more than a booth interaction. Teleoperation is one of the ways robots learn. The factory follow-up was the stronger signal: G2 completed a 6-day tablet-inspection livestream on LONGCHEER’s real production line. 99.99% task success rate. 2 mm precision fluctuation. 17,625 units produced. 64,828 robot operations completed. Cycle time stayed at 22 seconds per operation. The livestream ran for 64 hours from June 23 to June 28, 2026. By the end of it, the robots had already been running on that line for 105 days, from March 16 to June 28. This is the shift we actually want to see: humanoid robots moving from demos into real factory work. #AGIBOT #Automate2026 #EmbodiedAI

One of the most fun demos I tried at Automate 2026 was controlling a robot. At the @AGIBOTofficial booth during @AutomateShow, visitors could teleoperate a humanoid through two real manipulation tasks. The first simulated an automotive assembly operation, routing a wire harness and inserting a connector. The second was... Jenga. It sounds simple until you're controlling a robot remotely. Every movement requires precision, and suddenly you appreciate just how difficult dexterous manipulation really is. I somehow managed to stack three blocks, which (at least when I was there 😄) put me at the top of the leaderboard. Beyond the games, AGIBOT was also livestreaming its G2 humanoid robots performing real factory tasks, highlighting how teleoperation and autonomy can work together on the path toward deployment. Hands-on demos like this are a great reminder that robotics isn't just about watching impressive videos. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

Today, we're introducing SimFoundry, our real2sim2real framework at NVIDIA GEAR that automatically turns real-world scenes into simulation-ready worlds from a single image or video. Website: research.nvidia.com/labs/gea… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.28276 This work marks a major step for our team toward leveraging simulations and synthetic data for foundation model training and systematic policy evaluation at scale. Code will be open-sourced soon. Stay tuned!

Automate 2026, that's a wrap. 🔥 Our booth was packed all week. Humanoids working the crowd, robots running live demos up close, and yeah, a full-on dance-off right on the show floor. 🤖 Phones up, high-fives out, and a lot of "wait, it can do THAT?" Thanks, Chicago. Already looking forward to the next one. 👋 #AGIBOT #Automate2026 #HumanoidRobots #EmbodiedAI

Took a chance to introduce A3 to everyone at the @LightwheelAI Physical AI Night during Automate~ @AGIBOT_US

AgiBot A3 dancing at Automate 2026 🕺 🔴 AgiBot is a Chinese robotics company 🇨🇳 🔴 Latest humanoid A3 was shipped in Apr 26 🔴 AgiBot to IPO this year at ~$6bn market cap 🟡 A3's movement quality is smoother than Unitree G1 🟡 Torso motion is more human-like than other robots 🟡 Lasts 10 hrs on a charge (vs 2 hrs for G1) 🟡 Minimal overheating despite dancing for hours 🔴 Form factor sits closer to Figure 03 or Optimus 🔴 Pricing estimated at ~$70k 🔴 Payload is only at 3kg per arm - insufficient for heavy industry but wasn't built for it either as AgiBot built a separate robot for heavy industry use cases. @AGIBOTofficial @AutomateShow

Just back from #Automate2026. 🦾 From humanoid robots to AMRs, we saw the future of industrial automation, and our partners were right there showcasing what's next. See you next year in Vegas. 👋

Today marks the final day of our NYC pop up shop! We had thousands of visitors and millions of impressions generated as attendees shared pictures and videos of our robots. It was a pleasure collaborating on this with @KraneShares and our other partners: @nvidia, @Visa, @AGIBOT_US, @UnitreeRobotics, @boosterobotics, @LimX_Dynamics, @GalaxeaDynamics, @intbotai, and @ARCL_Katena.

Pls tell me I win the Shakira dance challenge! with @AGIBOTofficial at @openmind_agi @KraneShares New York popup store

🎉 15,000! AGIBOT's 15,000th robot just rolled off the line. The pace says it all: 1,000 → 5,000 took about a year. 10,000 → 15,000? Just three months. That's embodied AI moving from product validation to real-world, large-scale deployment. #AGIBOT #HumanoidRobots #EmbodiedAI

bad ass team!

Day 6 is live: Final livestream. Six days. Real factory. Real production line. Humanoid robots actually doing the work. x.com/i/broadcasts/1kKzDDkMA…

We (@saturdayrobotic) warmly congratulations to our reading club friend @jerryhuang01 and the entire Robotics Center of Silicon Valley @RoboticsCtr team on the grand opening of the new San Francisco HQ! 🎉🤖 From the very beginning, @jerryhuang01 has been a great friend and supporter of the @saturdayrobotic community. It's incredibly exciting to see @RoboticsCtr growing into a hub where robots, data, developers, and founders come together under one roof. We're excited to see an open ecosystem featuring humanoids, manipulation platforms, data collection hardware, tactile sensing, and developer infrastructure—all essential building blocks for the future of Physical AI. We're also thrilled that @saturdayrobotic Robotics & World Models Reading Club will celebrate our July 4 Independence Day Reading Club at @RoboticsCtr—stay tuned! 🎆 luma.com/cgzyfpeb It was also fantastic catching up with @youliangtan and @jang_yoel, co-authors of DreamZero. Congratulations on exciting new journey at Dream Labs! We're looking forward to hearing your hot takes and technical deep dives at future @saturdayrobotic Reading Clubs. 🚀 Congratulations on this incredible milestone. Looking forward to many more collaborations, technical insights, and community growth together!

Luka had a chance to walk the Chicago City and did martial arts practice in front of the skyline~

It was a great fun being there. Thanks for hosting!@jonstephens85!

One last wave from #Automate2026. 👋 Now it's time for a Chicago deep dish. 🍕 🤖 @AGIBOTofficial

Day 4 is live: Watch our 8 AGIBOT G2 robots working together in real factory. x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrrqAB…

A3 was practicing kung fu in the middle of a rooftop dance floor in downtown Chicago. Well… it was also the DJ’s first time trying to catch the beat of a robot’s kung fu moves. 🤖🥋 Thanks to @LightwheelAI for having us.

Automate Day 2 was a movie. 🤖 Danced, interacted, and showed up for real industrial work. This is what next-gen humanoid robots look like. Watch the highlights 👇 #Agibot #Automate2026

AGI Bot A3 enters Chicago Automate