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Ant Group's embodied AI company building one brain for all robots
Robbyant (Shanghai Ant Lingbo Technology) is the embodied AI arm of Ant Group, registered in Shanghai in December 2024 and formally launched in March 2025. It builds its own wheeled dual-arm robots, the R1 (shown in September 2025) and the current R2, and open-sources robot foundation models such as LingBot-VLA. Its strategy is "one brain, many bodies": the same AI runs on third-party robots, and the company said in August 2026 that pre-training covered 17 robot brands and 20 form factors. Its robots now handle night-shift medicine sorting in a Guoda Pharmacy store in Shanghai.
Researched as of November 3, 2026. Each item links to its source.
Announced strategic partnerships with Longsheng Weirui, Damon Technology and Deer Xiangwang for factory machine tending, auto manufacturing and parcel sorting.
Source: x.comAt the World Robot Conference said its brain is adapted to 17 brands and 20 configurations, and runs night-time drug sorting at a Shanghai Guoda pharmacy without store retrofits.
Source: stdaily.comReported to have launched its first external funding round targeting RMB 1.5 billion, with a second round planned by year-end.
Source: autonews.gasgoo.comReleased six models in four days during LingBot 2.0 Release Week; VLA 2.0 was trained on data from 20 robot types across 17 makers.
Source: thenextweb.comReleased the LingBot-Map 3D reconstruction model, its most-starred repository at about 18,500 stars as of Nov 2026.
Source: github.comOpen-sourced LingBot-Depth, LingBot-VLA, LingBot-World and LingBot-VA in quick succession under Apache-2.0.
Source: github.comUnveiled its first humanoid, R1, at the Inclusion Conference in Shanghai, showing uses such as tour guiding, pharmacy sorting and basic medical consultation.
Source: cryptobriefing.comImageRobbyant's current wheeled dual-arm robot on an omnidirectional base. Its height adjusts from 134 to 180 cm and the arm rated payload is 6 kg. It supports custom development and OTA updates, with a dexterous hand, gripper or suction cup as end tools.
ImageAnt Group's first wheeled dual-arm humanoid, unveiled in 2025. At IFA 2025 in Berlin it cooked shrimp in a mock kitchen. Staff said it was in mass production and had shipped to clients including the Shanghai History Museum, and that it is sold as part of scenario solutions rather than as a standalone product.
ImageA family of robot foundation models linking vision, language and action, aimed at controlling single-arm, dual-arm, biped and wheeled robots with one brain. Robbyant announced its full-stack Brain 2.0 in July 2026, and LingBot-VLA 2.0 has been demonstrated on third-party robots.
A robot running Robbyant's brain now works in a Guoda Pharmacy store in Shanghai, sorting medicines on the night shift to support the pharmacist on duty. The store reportedly needed no hardware changes.
Company staff said the R1 was in mass production and had shipped to early clients including the Shanghai History Museum. Unit numbers and operations have not been independently confirmed.
At IFA in September 2025, the R1 cooked shrimp in a mock kitchen to show home and service use.
At the World Robot Conference in Beijing in August 2026, a Titan robot running LingBot-VLA 2.0 ran a full loading and unloading cycle on a mock industrial line, and a Leju robot reliably grasped parcels of mixed materials and messy stacks.
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