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AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) is a Shanghai-based embodied-AI company founded in February 2023 by former Huawei executives Deng Taihua and Peng Zhihui. It builds full-size and half-size bipedal humanoids (Expedition/A-series, Lingxi/X-series), wheeled industrial robots (G-series), quadrupeds and OmniHand dexterous hands, together with its own simulation, dataset and foundation-model stack. It reported its 15,000th robot produced in June 2026, 2025 revenue of 1.05 billion yuan, and began a Hong Kong IPO process on 24 July 2026.

Founded
2023
Headquarters
ShanghaiChina
Employees
1,500
Valuation
$2.8B
Products
11
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Product lines

AGIBOT — Zhiyuan Robotics (智元机器人) in Chinese — builds a multi-tier portfolio rather than a single flagship. Its hardware matrix spans full-size Expedition (远征) A-series bipeds, half-size Lingxi (灵犀) X-series humanoids, wheeled G-series industrial units and D-series quadrupeds, complemented by the OmniHand dexterous manipulation line and a C5 commercial cleaning platform. The company made its U.S. market debut at CES 2026, where it said 5,000 robots had shipped to date, and it presents the stack under a framework it calls "one robotic body, three intelligences", covering interaction, manipulation and locomotion. At MWC 2026 it opened an online storefront offering robots on a rental basis. At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai it added the A3 Ultra full-size humanoid, the X2 EDU education platform, the G2 Max heavy-payload unit and the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M hand. On the software side, this publication covered the April 2026 AI Week releases: the GO-2 foundation model, Genie Sim 3.0 and Genie Envisioner 2.0 simulators, the open-sourced AGIBOT World dataset, and the zero-code Genie Studio Agent deployment tool.

Production and commercial traction

AGIBOT's production narrative is the core of its investment case. It reported its 10,000th unit in March 2026, three months after the 5,000 mark, and its 15,000th — an industrial G2 — in June 2026. Humanoid shipments exceeded 5,100 units in 2025. Founder and chairman Deng Taihua has described revenue rising from 300,000 yuan in the company's first year to more than 60 million yuan in its second and past 1 billion yuan in 2025; the company's own disclosed 2025 figure is 1.05 billion yuan. Chinese reporting ahead of the listing notes that rapid revenue growth has come alongside continuing losses. Deployment references include Longcheer Technology's tablet lines in Nanchang, covered by this publication in April and June 2026.

Capital structure and governance

The company has completed ten funding rounds from more than 50 investors, including Tencent, BYD, HongShan, Hillhouse, LG Electronics, Mirae Asset, JD.com and SAIC, at a reported valuation above 20 billion yuan. In July 2025 it took a 63.62% stake in Shanghai-listed Swancor Advanced Materials for 2.1 billion yuan, giving it an A-share subsidiary alongside its own planned Hong Kong float; it confirmed on 24 July 2026 that the listing process had begun, with CICC, CITIC Securities and Morgan Stanley as sponsors and a cornerstone target of HK$40–50 billion. Its corporate name was updated to AgiBot Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. Governance disclosure has tightened before the IPO: a nine-person partner list published on 3 August 2026 showed six members with Huawei backgrounds, while chief scientist Luo Jianlan was dropped from it, with the company saying he had been reassigned internally. Headcount is reported at roughly 1,500, about 75% in R&D.

Competitive position

AGIBOT's shipment lead — 43.1% of the 22,000-plus units counted by Counterpoint in H1 2026, ahead of Unitree — rests partly on counting wheeled and half-size platforms, a definitional dispute peers have raised. The FCC's July 2026 restrictions on imports of Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots are a direct constraint on the overseas expansion the company has been pursuing through CES, MWC and European deployments.

Robots & products

A selection of the company's announced products, not a complete catalogue.

AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT A3 Ultra

AGIBOT A3 Ultra

Announced

Bipedal humanoid · announced July 2026

Full-size humanoid for commercial, service and industrial tasks, running NVIDIA Thor with a 3D LiDAR, RGB-D and binocular perception suite.

Height
174 cm· 5 ft 9 in
Weight
60 kg· 132 lb
Payload
10 kg· 22 lb
DoF
51
AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT G2 Max

AGIBOT G2 Max

Announced

Wheeled humanoid · announced July 2026

Heavy-payload industrial variant of the G2 wheeled robot shown at WAIC 2026.

Height
179 cm· 5 ft 10 in
Weight
185 kg· 408 lb
Payload
20 kg· 44 lb
DoF
50
Runtime
4 h
Top speed
1.5 m/s· 3.4 mph
AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT X2 EDU

AGIBOT X2 EDU

Announced

Bipedal humanoid · announced July 2026

Education-focused variant of the X2 compact humanoid platform introduced at WAIC 2026.

Height
130 cm· 4 ft 3 in
Weight
29 kg· 64 lb
AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT A3

AGIBOT A3

Announced

Bipedal humanoid · announced April 2026

Full-size humanoid platform with a flexible waist, unveiled at the 2026 AGIBOT Partner Conference alongside four other platforms.

Height
173 cm· 5 ft 8 in
Weight
55 kg· 121 lb
Payload
10 kg· 22 lb
DoF
31
Runtime
10 h
Top speed
5 m/s· 11 mph
AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT C5

AGIBOT C5

Commercially available

Other

Autonomous cleaning solution for commercial spaces shown as part of the MWC 2026 portfolio.

AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT D1 Series

AGIBOT D1 Series

Commercially available

Quadruped

Quadruped robots for inspection, logistics, patrol and operation in complex environments.

AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT G2 Series

AGIBOT G2 Series

Commercially available

Wheeled humanoid

Industrial-grade wheeled embodied robot combining interactive intelligence with force-controlled manipulation, deployed on live electronics production lines.

AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT X2 Series

AGIBOT X2 Series

Commercially available

Bipedal humanoid

Half-size compact humanoid for entertainment, education and research, positioned between full-scale industrial humanoids and lightweight entertainment machines.

DoF
25
Top speed
2 m/s· 4.5 mph
AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT Lingxi X1

AGIBOT Lingxi X1

Commercially available

Bipedal humanoid

Compact half-size humanoid line introduced as part of a five-model commercial launch across the Expedition and Lingxi series.

AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT Expedition A2-W

AGIBOT Expedition A2-W

Commercially available

Wheeled humanoid

Wheeled and heavy-duty variants of the Expedition A2 humanoid launched alongside the Lingxi X1 line.

AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) AGIBOT Expedition A2 Series (远征 A2)

AGIBOT Expedition A2 Series (远征 A2)

Commercially available

Bipedal humanoid

Full-size humanoid line used for reception, guided presentation and showroom interaction, with multimodal interaction and autonomous navigation.

Timeline

  1. Nine-person partner list published; chief scientist dropped

    Six of the nine named partners came from Huawei, while chief scientist Luo Jianlan was removed from the list; the company said he had been reassigned internally rather than having left.

    36kr.com
  2. Starts Hong Kong IPO process

    The company confirmed to Caixin it had begun the listing process; investors cited a cornerstone target of HK$40–50 billion, with CICC, CITIC Securities and Morgan Stanley reported as sponsors.

    m.caixin.com
  3. 15,000th robot produced, an industrial G2 unit

    Production reached 15,000 cumulative units roughly three years after founding, alongside about 100 hours of livestreamed factory operation at Longcheer.

    Scaled to Scale: AGIBOT Rolls Out 15,000th Robot as Production Ramps Accelerate
  4. Dexterous-hand spin-off AGILINK passes $1bn valuation

    AGILINK, spun out and registered independently in January 2026, raised several hundred million yuan and reported over 8,000 dexterous hands delivered.

    AGILINK Hits Unicorn Status: AGIBOT’s Dexterous Hand Spin-off Raises Hundreds of Millions
  5. Named a core supplier in State Grid's RMB 6.8bn robot procurement

    State Grid Corp. of China's 2026 embodied intelligence plan covers 8,500 units including 500 humanoids, with AGIBOT among the named suppliers.

    State Grid’s $995 Million Bet: 8,500 Robots to Spearhead "Deployment Year One" in Energy
  6. "Deployment Year One" declared at partner conference

    AGIBOT launched five robot platforms and eight foundation models and said it had passed 10,000 units produced in March 2026.

    Deployment Year One: AGIBOT Unveils Massive Fleet and AI Model Stack at APC 2026
  7. G2 robots deployed on Longcheer tablet production lines

    AGIBOT and ODM Longcheer Technology put G2 units into live consumer-electronics manufacturing in Nanchang.

    The Era of Embodied AGI Begins: AGIBOT and Longcheer Deploy World’s First Humanoid-Led Mass Production Line
  8. 10,000th robot rolls off the line

    The company said it went from 5,000 to 10,000 units in three months, crediting supply-chain maturity and manufacturing efficiency.

    The 10,000-Unit Threshold: AGIBOT Accelerates Production in Bid for Global Dominance
  9. US market debut at CES 2026 with full humanoid portfolio

    AGIBOT showed the A2, X2, G2, D1 and OmniHand lines and said 5,000 robots had shipped to date.

    prnewswire.com
  10. Takes 63.62% of Shanghai-listed Swancor Advanced Materials

    AGIBOT-linked entities paid RMB 2.1 billion via agreement transfer plus a tender offer, giving the group an A-share listed subsidiary and Deng Taihua its legal representative; month-level date.

    zhuanlan.zhihu.com
  11. Company says it has begun mass production of humanoids

    Month-level date; no exact day given in the source.

    scmp.com
  12. AGIBOT founded in Shanghai by two former Huawei executives

    Deng Taihua and Peng Zhihui established the company in February 2023; the exact founding day is not disclosed in available sources.

    en.wikipedia.org

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