ACE ROBOTICS today unveiled Kairos 3.1, its latest action-oriented world model, alongside Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 and three commercial solutions spanning instant retail, hospitality and outdoor service scenarios at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026. The announcements mark a significant step in connecting high-density data with real-world robotic operations, moving embodied AI from laboratory research to industrial deployment.
The company also introduced PHYSICAL IQ, a unified benchmark for embodied physical intelligence, jointly initiated by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Association, the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute and the East China branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, with participation from more than 20 universities and industry partners. This benchmark aims to standardize evaluation of embodied AI systems.
Kairos 3.1 is designed as a natively unified model integrating generative, physical and cognitive intelligence within a single architecture. Built on a hybrid Transformer architecture with a shared mixed-attention mechanism, it brings visual observations, language instructions, force and tactile signals, and policy trajectories into a unified latent space. This supports an "understand, reason, execute and reflect" loop, enabling robots to break down long-horizon tasks, simulate physical cause and effect, rank actions, execute strategies and evaluate outcomes for further adjustment.
At the core of its spatial understanding is ACE-BRAIN-0.5, which has achieved state-of-the-art results across 12 public evaluations covering spatial understanding, navigation, manipulation and task-progress assessment. For physical generation and reasoning, Kairos-HomeWorld supports whole-home scene generation and object interaction, built on 300,000 residential floor plans, 5,000 simulated home environments and 8,700 3D assets. The model can simulate multiple action trajectories in parallel and rank them based on predicted success and execution cost.
ACE ROBOTICS also introduced the "Information-Density Law" for embodied models, classifying data across five levels (L1 to L5), with L5 data incorporating three-dimensional force and tactile signals, failure-recovery trajectories and open-environment variables. Ambient Capture Engine 2.0, built on this principle, includes ACE Ego Kit—a lightweight wireless wearable with the ACE Sense Glove offering 0.01 newton sensitivity—and ACE Data Engine, an automated data-production platform for continuous annotation of long-horizon tasks. ACE Ego Matrix standardizes embodied data across spatial coordinates, embodiment structure, action timing and data quality, and has been open-sourced.
The company announced three commercial solutions: Xiaoman for instant retail with the W1 fulfillment robot, featuring a robot-to-payload weight ratio of less than 2:1 and force-control precision within one newton; Xiaoxin for hotel-laundry operations, handling collection, loading, unloading, washing, sorting and folding; and Xiaotu for autonomous operation in complex outdoor environments using a "one brain, many bodies" architecture across multiple quadruped robot platforms. These solutions have been deployed with customers including Sense MartGo, Kuaikeda and PetroChina convenience stores, and at cultural-tourism events like the Begonia Flower Festival in Tianjin.
ACE ROBOTICS also announced strategic collaborations with the Caohejing Development Zone, PetroChina, Kuaikeda and SenseTime Shanhui, as well as the World Model Cloud Ecosystem initiative with Baidu AI Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud and SenseCore AI Cloud. By connecting high-density data, unified world models, robot platforms, commercial applications and shared evaluation standards, ACE ROBOTICS aims to support the transition of embodied AI from individual technical demonstrations to sustained operations in real-world environments.
