The company’s unit Shanghai Ant Lingbo Technology Co., also known as Robbyant, demonstrated its R1 humanoid model at the 2025 Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai.
The robot can serve as a tour guide, sort medicine at pharmacies, provide medical consultation or perform basic kitchen tasks.
Unlike other companies that focus on hardware development, Ant is honing in on developing brains for robots.
Ant views humanoids as a strategic gateway to popularizing AI chatbots and assistants, betting that large AI models — still in the early stages of transforming society — will soon reshape how humans interact with machines, according to Zhu Xing, chief executive officer of Robbyant.
“If humanoid robots are used in homes, they won’t just help with everyday tasks, they’ll act like super-smart brains, tapping into cloud-based AI to assist with even more things,” said Zhu.
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