In January, Robbyant released a suite of embodied AI models. Alongside LingBot-VLA, the suite includes LingBot-Depth, a high-precision spatial perception model designed to enhance robots’ depth ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Ant Group, the Alibaba-linked fintech giant, is venturing into the humanoid robot industry, joining a growing list of major Chinese tech companies exploring this emerging field.

Shanghai-based Ant Lingbo Technology, a subsidiary of Ant Group, has introduced its first humanoid robot, the R1, at the Inclusion Conference in Shanghai. The robot demonstrated its ability to guide ...

Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, today announced the open-source release of LingBot-VLA, a vision-language-action (VLA) model designed to serve as a “universal brain” for real-world ...

Ant Group, backed by Jack Ma, entered the humanoid robot race by unveiling its first model, the R1, at the 2025 Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai. Through its unit Robbyant, the Alibaba ...

An international team of researchers has built the largest three-dimensional database of ant anatomy ever assembled, scanning ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a new lunar mission for startup company Firefly, how to teach old robots new tricks, our new robotic ant overlords and more. You can sign up to get ...

Mimicking ants' hairy jaws could make robotic systems much more effective at picking objects up and moving them around. A prototype "hairy robotic gripper" has been developed by the University of ...