AgiBot Puts 300-Plus Robots to Work at Chimelong Spaceship Park as Its 20,000th Unit Is Delivered
AgiBot deployed more than 300 embodied intelligence robots across over 100 interactive points at Hengqin's Chimelong Spaceship Park, and its 20,000th robot, an Expedition A3 Ultra, was delivered to Chimelong Group the same day.
The park is described in the report as the world's first large-scale embodied intelligence theme park. The first batch of robots covers seven settings: entertainment performances, science education, guided tours, retail service, intelligent companion tours, hotel services and sports competition. AgiBot says the initial 300-plus units will be followed by deployments in other Chimelong sites, with the total system expected to reach several thousand robots. The "Chimelong x AgiBot Embodied Intelligence Cultural Tourism Joint Research Institute" was also unveiled, and a large-scale 5G-A embodied intelligence application for cultural tourism sites, jointly researched by AgiBot, Chimelong Group and China Mobile, was released.
The 20,000th-unit milestone follows a change in destination. AgiBot's 15,000th embodied robot went to a production line at Longqi Technology, an industrial setting the company links to labor productivity, while the 20,000th went to a theme park, which it links to service productivity.
Wang Chuang, AgiBot partner, senior vice president and president of its general business unit, said robot performances had become a relatively mature application by 2025, but most shows used rental models in which robots left once an event ended. At Chimelong, he said, robots stay on site long term, work fixed shifts and perform multiple shows a day, adding that "renting for a day" and "being there every day" are two different things.
The deployment includes what the company lists as three world firsts: a large-scale 5G-A embodied intelligence application for a tourism site, built on an architecture of 5G network slicing, local edge deployment and security isolation that separates visitor traffic from robot operations to achieve very low end-to-end latency; a one-stop operations and maintenance platform for embodied intelligence at a scenic area; and a safety plan covering space, personal safety, charging and fire safety, AI, data and operations.
On the technical side, AgiBot's foundation is a full-stack architecture it calls the integration of three intelligences: motion intelligence, interaction intelligence and task intelligence, paired with a robot body. Interaction runs on the company's self-developed WITA model, which combines model understanding and generation with visual perception, voice interaction and motion execution. A LinkSoul platform allows customization of voice, facial expression, persona, motion and costume.
For long shifts in a crowded park, the Expedition series was modified, according to the report. Battery life reaches 10 hours, which AgiBot says leads the industry and which the report compares with an industry average of about three hours, allowing at most one battery swap a day. Acoustic front-end processing, noise-reduction algorithms, multi-person recognition and lip recognition were optimized, with internal and external microphones switchable by environment. The robots use 360-degree perception and compliant upper-limb control so that an arm stops or reduces force when a person enters its motion area. Signal enhancement inside the Expedition A3 supports wireless and dual 5G networks, and AgiBot worked with carriers on private network slices dedicated to robots.
Wang said AgiBot is targeting costs from two directions: raising the ratio of robots to supervising staff from about 3 to 1 toward 10 to 1 and eventually 20 to 1, and extending service life so that the purchase price is amortized over two or three years. Chimelong receives more than 40 million visitors a year, and overseas visitors grew nearly 50 percent in the past year; a single robot can handle dozens of languages, the report says.
Xiong Yan, AgiBot partner, co-president, and president of its central R&D department and interaction business system, said that over roughly a month of deployment, the robots' interaction abilities and their adaptability to the environment and tour routes changed "with each passing day." He estimated that at least three to five years are still needed before robots require no human debugging at all. AgiBot calls 2026 the first year of the industry's "deployment state," and Wang said that if a robot talks with 1,000 visitors in a day it may surface 100 failure cases, which feed data accumulation and model iteration so that similar situations are handled better the following month.