Robbyant (Ant Lingbo Technology)

Market context

One of the strongest examples of "AI-first robotics" — prioritising intelligence + service workflows over hardware performance. Robbyant R1

Products

• Robbyant R1

Facts

• Website: https://www.antgroup.com/
• HQ: Shanghai, China
• Founded: 2024
• Segment: humanoid robotics

Ant Group service robotics unit

Robbyant is Ant Group's robotics unit, developing AI-first service robots for public-facing and commercial service environments.

• Target environment: Service venues, retail or financial-service spaces, hospitality-adjacent environments and Ant Group ecosystem deployments.
• Deployment model: Subsidiary-led robot development inside Ant Group, using AI and service infrastructure from the broader group.
• Customer context: Ant Group ecosystem businesses, service operators, public venues and commercial sites testing AI-driven robot assistance.
• Workflow context: Service interaction, guidance, customer assistance, autonomous navigation and public-space human-robot interaction.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage Ant Group robotics program with service-robot launch activity. Scaling depends on useful public-facing tasks, site integration, customer acceptance, service economics, and Ant Group's pr…
• Market position: Big-tech-backed service robotics developer linking Ant Group's AI and payment ecosystem to embodied service robots.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task usefulness, customer acceptance, safety, site integration, service economics and Ant Group's productization path.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes Chinese service robots, big-tech robotics units, public-space humanoids and AI-first customer-service robots.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-03-16 - Partnership - Robbyant and Leju Robot form strategic partnership to commercialize embodied AI systems - Robbyant, Ant Group's embodied AI company, signed a strategic partnership with Leju Robot The two companies said they will combine Robbyant's embodied AI models with Leju's robotics technologies to build integrated solutions for industrial and commercial scen…
• 2026-01-29 - Demonstration - Robbyant Demonstrates LingBot-VA's Video-Action Integration - • Robbyant showcased LingBot-VA, an autoregressive diffusion framework that simultaneously learns frame prediction and policy execution. • The model features a shared latent space integrating vision and action tokens. • Evaluations demonstrated significant pr…
• 2026-01-28 - Research Publication - Robbyant open-sources LingBot-VLA model as a 'universal brain' for robots - • Robbyant released LingBot-VLA, a vision-language-action model, as open-source software. • The model was pre-trained on over 20,000 hours of real-world interaction data from nine dual-arm robot configurations. • It was evaluated on the GM-100 benchmark, achi…
• 2026-01-26 - Research Publication - Robbyant publishes LingBot-VLA pragmatic foundation model with open weights and benchmark data - Robbyant published LingBot-VLA, a VLA foundation model trained on about 20,000 hours of real-world data from nine dual-arm robot configurations. The paper reports evaluations across three robotic platforms and releases code, base model weights, and GM-100 ben…

Team

• Zhu Xing - CEO - Zhu leads Ant Group's robotics arm and open-source embodied-AI model work.

Relationships

• Leju Robotics - Partner - Robbyant and Leju partner to combine Robbyant AI with Leju humanoid robotics platforms.