n NEWS AGIBOT, THE CHINESE MANUFACTURER which was the biggest supplier of humanoid robots worldwide last year, has launched on the UK market and appointed several local partners to promote real-world applications of its technologies. The initial UK partners include Robots International, Extend Robotics and Scancom. The company, whose portfolio includes walking and wheeled humanoids as well as four-legged robot “dogs”, is offering a Robot-asa-Service (RaaS) model designed to make advanced AI robots more accessible without large upfront costs. Humanoid robots will be available to rent at prices from £1,999 per day, while quadruped robots will cost from £899 per day, including deployment and support. At a launch event in London, Agibot also unveiled its latest humanoid, the 173cm-tall Agibot A3, which has a 55kg body reinforced with magnesium and titanium alloys. A dualbattery system provides up to 10 hours of operation, and the batteries can be swapped in 10 seconds to achieve extend this. The robots can work together in groups, and achieve centimetre-level positioning accuracy, without any need to modify their hardware. At the event, Agibot’s president for the EU and the US, William Shi, said: “The UK is a strategically important market for Agibot’s global expansion. It has a strong innovation ecosystem, a mature partner network, and diverse real-world scenarios where embodied AI can create value. “We hope to work more closely with local partners to bring Agibot’s technologies, products, and service capabilities into practical applications, and to use the UK as an important starting point for broader deployment across Europe,” he added. Agibot has set up a demonstration facility in Milton Keynes where visitors can see its portfolio of robots in action, mainly in consumer applications. Agibot has recently produced its 15,000th robot, having taken just over three years from its founding in 2023 to reach volume production. According to the analyst Omdia, Agibot led the world last year in terms of the number of humanoid robots shipped (more than 5,100) and global market share (39%). Between them, Agibot and another Chinese manufacturer, Unitree, accounted for 71% of global humanoid shipments during 2025. As well as industrial and logistics applications, Agibot’s robots have also been deployed for security, data collection, hospitality, training and education duties. The company recently broadcast a six-day livestream of several of its humanoids at work in a real factory. The robots performed real production tasks, including quality inspection, under factory conditions. According to Agibot, in more than 64 hours of operation, the robots completed more than 64,000 production-line tasks with a success rate of 99.99%. www.agibot.com Chinese humanoid-maker targets UK market In a recent livestream, a team of Agibot humanoid robots performed real tasks in a real factory
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