AgiBot

In February 2023, two former Huawei engineers, Deng Taihua and Peng Zhihui, founded AgiBot in Shanghai. The company, also operating as Zhiyuan Robotics, wasted no time scaling up. By March 2026, its 10,000th robot had rolled off the production line, a milestone that placed it among the fastest-growing humanoid robotics manufacturers globally.

AgiBot builds a full ecosystem of embodied intelligence. Its product lineup includes the Yuanzheng and Lingxi humanoid robots for industrial assembly and service tasks, quadruped robots, dexterous manipulation systems, and commercial cleaning solutions. The company's core architecture, called Three Intelligences in One, integrates locomotion, interaction, and manipulation intelligence into a single system. AgiBot also sells data-collection and model-training infrastructure to external clients through a platform called AgiBot World, which it describes as the first large-scale, enterprise-quality realistic task dataset for Embodied AI.

Major investors include Tencent, HongShan Capital, LG Electronics, BYD, and Hillhouse Investment. The company is preparing for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2026, targeting a valuation between HK$40 billion and HK$50 billion, roughly US$5.1 to 6.4 billion. As of mid-2026, AgiBot employs about 210 people, according to LinkedIn data, and its headquarters remain in Pudong, Shanghai. [edit]