(Yicai) Aug. 14 -- Chinese humanoid robotics startup AgiBot has launched a unified world foundation platform for robotic manipulation that integrates policy learning, evaluation, and simulation within a single video-generative framework, the first of its kind in the industry.

Genie Envisioner is a powerful foundation for building general-purpose, instruction-driven embodied intelligence, Shanghai-based AgiBot announced today, adding that it will make all code, models, and benchmarks related to the platform open source.

Embodied intelligence is a technical paradigm that combines artificial intelligence technology with physical entities such as robots, endowing them with human-like abilities to perceive, learn, and interact with their environment. AI can understand causality and develop common sense thanks to the interaction between the physical body and its surroundings.

GE-Base, a large-scale, multi-view video diffusion model, lies at the core of Genie Envisioner, AgiBot noted. It has been trained on about 3,000 hours of video language-paired data spanning over one million real-world robotic manipulation episodes, establishing a "mapping from language instructions to an embodied visual space, capturing the essence of robotic manipulation by modeling the spatial, temporal, and semantic regularities of real-world interactions," it added.

In addition, built around Genie Envisioner are GE-Act, a lightweight parallel flow-matching action model that enables precise and generalizable policy inference across diverse embodiments with minimal supervision, and GE-Sim, an action-conditioned neural simulator that produces high-fidelity rollouts for closed-loop policy development.

Existing systems for training robots rely on fragmented stages of data collection, training, and evaluation, while the Genie Envisioner aims to integrate these processes into a unified platform, AgiBot said.

Established in 2023 by Peng Zhihui, a former researcher at tech giant Huawei Technologies, AgiBot has completed 10 financing rounds with investors including Tencent Holdings, JD.Com, and BYD. In addition, an investment fund jointly set up by South Korea's LG Electronics and Mirae Asset Financial Group invested in the company earlier this month.

AgiBot's focus aligns with Shanghai's vision of developing an AI and humanoid robot hub. On Aug. 6, the city rolled out a series of industrial development goals and economic support measures seeking to lift the scale of the local embodied intelligence industry to more than CNY50 billion (USD7 billion) by 2027.

Editor: Martin Kadiev