AgiBot to invest over ¥200M with 20+ universities on embodied AI talent
AgiBot said its "YuanSheng ecosystem development plan" has signed its first batch of more than 20 universities—including Peking University, Tsinghua, Zhejiang, South China University of Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Xi'an Jiaotong, Southeast and Sun Yat-sen—to build joint embodied-AI teaching and research platforms. The company will supply more than 1,000 embodied-AI devices spanning its Genie, Lingxi and Expedition wheeled, half-size and full-size humanoids plus KuoTu quadrupeds, and provide its AIMA development platform with LinkSoul, LinkCraft and Genie Studio for curriculum, research and hands-on training; it values the hardware and software memberships at ¥200 million. AgiBot had earlier said the plan would spend over ¥2 billion over five years, and says it has connected with 237 research institutions, 500-plus ecosystem partners and more than 10,000 application developers.
Flooding universities with robots and development platforms is a bid by AgiBot to lock in embodied-AI talent and developer mindshare, which could shape China's humanoid-robotics talent pipeline in coming years.