AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026: What to Expect

Thursday is the one to watch. AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026 is 29 October at the Shanghai World Expo Center. AgiBot's own post, dated 22 October, puts the main forum on Thursday morning, Shanghai time (UTC+8). AgiBot gives no exact time. Workshops and breakout forums sit on Wednesday the 28th and on Thursday afternoon. The livestream they name is the WeChat video channel 智元 AGIBOT. An English stream has yet to turn up.

AgiBot is the Shanghai company Peng Zhihui co-founded. This is a preview of the posts they have published, written on Sunday 25 October, four days out. If they name a robot on Thursday, that name goes into an update of this page.

Thursday morning is the forum they scheduled

On 16 October the company's LinkedIn account posted the day and the hall, and almost nothing else.

“New robots. New models. And a bold new vision for how robots create value.” AgiBot, LinkedIn, 16 October 2026. The post names 29 October and the Shanghai World Expo Center. The product is left for the day.

Six days later, on 22 October, AgiBot published the programme on its site. The Chinese title is 2026智元创新日. The English name in that post is AGIBOT Innovation Day. The hall is 上海世博中心, the Shanghai World Expo Center, the same building as the LinkedIn line. The post aims the day at what they call the deployment state, 部署态: a robot that already has a shift, on a line or in a shop or in a hotel. They list four layers under that. The hardware body. Motion intelligence, which is how it moves. Task intelligence, 作业智能, which is how it does the job. Interaction intelligence, which they set beside the others and leave as the phrase.

Under those headings they describe four things they intend to bring. No model code yet. Bodies and parts designed for a robot that is supposed to stay on a job. A foundation model they describe as moving from motion control toward spatial-mobility intelligence. I read that as path and place, the step after balance. That reading is mine. The post leaves the phrase as they wrote it. A data flywheel: data into the model, the model into the body, the body back into the scene. And a wider set of partners, for scenes beyond the four they already name.

The workshops on the 28th and on Thursday afternoon are aimed at service productivity, task productivity, and dexterous manipulation. Dexterous manipulation is the fine hand work: a grasp, a tool, a part that has to be oriented. The contact number printed on the post is 400 186 0818, with hours under it of weekdays 9:30–12:00 and 13:30–18:30. I looked for a public English registration page and came up empty. If you are outside WeChat, Thursday morning may reach you as a recap.

Where they say a robot is already working

The 22 October post spends its second half on the last six months, and the point of that half is to make Thursday look like a shipping story. In April, at a partner conference, they say the deployment state got its first sites. AGIBOT G2 on a manufacturing line at Longcheer (龙旗). The Lingxi X2 in ASD (爱仕达) stores. Expedition A3 in a Shangri-La hotel. The full lineup at Chimelong Spaceship in Hengqin (横琴长隆飞船乐园).

The post writes that factory robot as 精灵G2. The English product page calls it AGIBOT G2. A PDF of the user manual still writes Genie G2 where it lists the teleoperation methods. The copy on AgiBot's document center uses AGIBOT G2 in that same sentence.

The hotel sentence stops at the Expedition A3. I looked through that post for the A3 Ultra, and for a Pudong address. The Ultra is the service humanoid from WAIC, and our page on it still has no public price. The hotel line stays with Expedition A3. The store robot they name is the Lingxi X2, the machine we list as the X2 Neo.

In September, they say, the 20,000th general-purpose robot left production. Twenty thousand is the company's count of general-purpose robots, 通用机器人, off a line. The post leaves the humanoid share of that count unstated. I have not walked the line. They also call the mass-production lead global. Both posts skip the price.

The same post names models they say are already out. GO-2 in April. In May, an end-to-end motion foundation model they call BFM-2, and which they describe as the world's first “Motion-Between” model of that kind. In September, AGILE 2.0, which they describe as a model that joins sensing and control, “eyes-open motion” in their phrasing. A new model on Thursday would have to sit past that list. Which slot it fills, and whether it replaces one of those three, is what the morning has to say.

AgiBot's six-month recap also includes the August World Humanoid Robot Games. The write-up of those days is the games piece. This page is about Thursday.

What I will be watching on Thursday

The middle column is what AgiBot has published. The right-hand column is what I will be looking for on the day. That column is still blank on their side. If Thursday produces a name, a price, or a ship date, that is new information, and this preview will need an update.

What I want from the morning is a customer site. The April list is already a factory, a shop chain, a hotel, and a theme park, if those deployments are what the post says they are. Hours on a shift, how often a person has to step in, the task the machine actually finishes: any one of those would tell me more than a render. A new shell can wait until a site sits behind it.

Also this week

The rest of the year, from HRFEST in Callao through Humanoids in Santa Clara, is on the year-end calendar. This week steps into November on Saturday and Sunday for the hackathon. ICRSA's site lists the conference through 1 November, and the published schedule has talks only on Saturday. HRFEST, CoRL, and Humanoid Asia sit later in the month, on that other page. Four dates are on this week's calendar. Clone's Torso 4 is a November target with the day still open.

Monday's ROSCon hours still disagree

ROSCon Singapore 2026 is Monday 26 October at Lorong AI, One-North, level 3 of Vidacity, 69 Ayer Rajah Crescent. National Robotics Programme Singapore, in a 31 July post, called it the first time the ROS community gathers in Singapore for ROSCon. The Luma listing, which points at that official page, describes talks on Open-RMF, healthcare robotics, and embodied AI. Open-RMF is the open fleet manager for many robots sharing one building. One session on that listing, from Teo Wei De of ROS-Industrial, is about embodied AI and intelligent humanoid robots. Registration on the listing is closed. ROS-Industrial's calendar says the same.

I could not load roscon.ros.org through its bot check, so the programme above is the Luma listing, not a page I read on the official domain. That listing runs the day 9:00–17:00 Singapore time. ROS-Industrial's calendar says 13:00–17:00 SGT, printed there as 1:00–5:00 PM at the Singapore venue. Same zone, and the two clocks still disagree on how long the day runs. The official page would settle it. The bot check stopped me before the programme loaded.

Mexico City has a humanoid hour on Monday evening

COMRob 2026 is the 28th Mexican Congress of Robotics, 26–28 October at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Prolongación Paseo de Reforma 880, Lomas de Santa Fe. The Mexican Association of Robotics and the university are the hosts. The programme is papers, keynotes, workshops, and a competition. Humanoid robotics is one line on a call that also takes control papers, mobile robots, and medical robotics. The humanoid hour I would actually walk to is Monday 26 October, 17:00–18:30, Mexico City time (UTC-6): an industry session that includes Viki Chen of Booster Robotics, “From Research to Reality: Advancing Embodied AI with Humanoid Robotics.” The schedule prints the hour and skips the zone.

Huizhou's talks fall on Saturday

ICRSA 2026 is the 9th International Conference on Robotic Systems and Applications, 30 October to 1 November in Huizhou. Huizhou University and IEEE sponsor it. The school of electronic information and electrical engineering at Huizhou University is the host named on the site. The venue page names the Crowne Plaza Huizhou, 8 Huangguan Road, Huicheng District. The outline embeds a schedule PDF. Friday the 30th is registration and kit collection in the hotel lobby, 10:00–17:00 China time (UTC+8): tell the staff your paper ID, sign the attendance list and confirm the meal, then collect the kit. The PDF prints those hours and gives the clock alone. Huizhou runs on China time, UTC+8. Talks on Saturday 31 October. The site lists the conference through 1 November, but the published schedule has no Sunday sessions. The last session block that day ends at 18:10, and dinner runs until 20:00. Accepted papers are headed for IEEE Xplore. It is a paper conference.

Sunday afternoon in Singapore, a G1 and a viewer ticket

Humanoid Hack Singapore is Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November. Orboh's series page calls it the first edition outside Japan, free, in Singapore. The public listing says Orboh is running it with Acacia College, on real Unitree G1 humanoids, and that the street goes to registered guests. Six teams of four to six. Two teams share one robot. The robot count is still to be announced. The theme is an application on the G1: a vision-language-action model (a VLA, which maps a camera and a sentence onto a movement), teleoperation, motion control, or an integration with a language model. Teleoperation means a person driving the robot.

The listing marks the clock as indicative and subject to change, and it marks both days in SGT. On that clock, Sunday's public doors open at 14:00 SGT, demos start at 15:00 SGT with seven minutes a team, and a free viewer ticket is the way in. Day 1 is for hackers and invitees. I could not reload the Luma page itself on 25 October. The schedule here is the listing that repeats it. Orboh is also running Humanoid Hack Tokyo 3 the same weekend, 31 October to 3 November, at GMO Humanoid Lab in Shibuya: eight teams, four G1s, on the organizer's own page.

Clone's Torso 4 is a November target

Clone Robotics, on 1 October, said Torso 4 launches in November. Humanoids Daily wrote it up the same day. A day, a price, and a city are still to come. Until a date appears, it stays pending, off this week's list.

The company calls Torso 4 a human-level torso meant to automate stationary two-arm work for enterprises. Stationary means the base stays put. Two-arm is the task shape: both hands, one place. That is their target. The clip they posted is teleoperation of a Torso 3 hand they say was built in April: a person driving that hand. Torso 4 moving on its own is still ahead of the clip.

If I could be in one room, I would take Thursday morning in Shanghai. I want a number on a robot they already claim is on a shift. A shell that still needs a name would be the smaller result. Monday in Singapore is the room about fleets that already have to share a corridor. Sunday afternoon, if the hackathon holds its clock, is the one where a stranger can watch a G1 try a job a team started that morning.

Sources

1. AgiBot, 2026智元创新日 announcement, 22 October 2026. Date, Shanghai World Expo Center, Thursday morning forum with no exact clock, workshops on the 28th and Thursday afternoon, deployment-state themes, April sites including 精灵G2 at Longcheer, September's 20,000th general-purpose robot, prior models, WeChat channel 智元 AGIBOT, phone line.
2. AgiBot, AGIBOT G2 product page. English product name. Document-center user manual, shown as released 2026-07-30, uses AGIBOT G2 in the teleoperation section. A PDF titled AGIBOT G2 User Manual, hosted here, still writes “Genie G2 offers multiple teleoperation methods.”
3. AgiBot, LinkedIn post, 16 October 2026. “New robots. New models.” 29 October, Shanghai World Expo Center.
4. Yicai, “2026智元创新日将在上海举行”, 21 October 2026, citing Securities Times. Date and city. The hall and the product sit outside that write-up.
5. ROSCon Singapore Luma listing (points at roscon.ros.org/sg/2026/, which presented a bot check and did not return the programme). Venue, 9:00–17:00 Singapore time, Open-RMF, healthcare, humanoid session, registration closed.
6. ROS-Industrial, ROSCon SG 2026. 26 October, 13:00–17:00 (1:00–5:00 PM) at Lorong AI, Singapore, so SGT. Registration closed. The page prints the clock and the city, and omits the letters SGT.
7. National Robotics Programme Singapore, LinkedIn post, 31 July 2026. “For the first time ever, the global ROS community will gather in Singapore for ROSCon,” 26 October, Lorong AI. A direct reload of this post timed out; the wording is the indexed text.
8. COMRob, English congress page and schedule. 26–28 October 2026, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. Industry session Monday 17:00–18:30, including Booster Robotics. The schedule leaves the zone unnamed. Mexico City time is UTC-6.
9. ICRSA, conference home, venue, programme outline. The site and the PDF preface list 30 October–1 November 2026, Huizhou. Crowne Plaza Huizhou, 8 Huangguan Road. The outline page embeds schedule.pdf: Day 1, Friday 30 October, hotel lobby, registration and kit collection 10:00–17:00 (paper ID, attendance list, meal confirmation, kit). Day 2, Saturday 31 October, talks through 18:10 and dinner until 20:00. No Sunday sessions. The PDF prints the hours and omits a zone label. Huizhou is China time, UTC+8. Huizhou University and IEEE.
10. Orboh, Humanoid Hack series page. Singapore edition 31 October–1 November 2026, free, first edition outside Japan. Tokyo 3 the same weekend, 31 October–3 November, GMO Humanoid Lab, Shibuya, eight teams, four Unitree G1s.
11. Humanoid Hack Singapore listing. Unitree G1, six teams, two teams per robot, robot count unannounced, Acacia College, both days marked SGT, public doors Sunday 14:00 SGT, demos 15:00 SGT, schedule marked indicative. The Luma URL this listing points at returned 404 on a direct fetch on 25 October.
12. Humanoids Daily, Clone Torso 4, 1 October 2026. November launch target, day still open. Teleoperation of an April Torso 3 hand. Stationary two-arm enterprise target, as the company's claim.