AgiBot (Zhiyuan) data collection factory, Shanghai

China centre, HQ China, founded 2023. Shanghai-backed site where operators guide robots step by step, sometimes in VR headsets; AgiBot positions its AgiBot World dataset against Google's Open X-Embodiment.

Data it collects

Workers in

ChinaMalaysia

Known buyers

Scale

• 9 data collection centres and training grounds built or signed (Shanghai Pudong/Lingang, Chengdu Pidu, Wuxi, Nanchang, Jiaxing, Chongqing, Zhuhai, Gui'an) (2026-09-20)
• Wuxi plant: 300 robots, 500,000 effective hours per year (2026-09-02)
• 2026 target 10M hours effective data (2M real-robot, 8M no-embodiment) (2026-09-02)
• Potential RM1 billion investment in Malaysia by 2035 and 5,000 jobs (2026-09-23)

Events

• 2026-10-02 AgiBot partners Vietnam National Innovation Center yahoo.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-23 AgiBot pledges RM1 billion in Malaysia theedgemalaysia.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-08-17 Maniformer raises several hundred million yuan led by China Telecom qq.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-08-05 Guizhou policy subsidises opening scenes for embodied data collection sina.com.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-06-25 AgiBot partner conference in Bangkok agibot.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-06-25 AgiBot releases 'Data Collection 2.0' at Chengdu Pidu centre scol.com.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-05-20 Chinese report: robot makers sell to state data centres, then buy the data back qq.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-04-27 MR. ROBOT raises US$5 million thesun.my ↗ Secondary
• 2026-04-20 Genting Malaysia and AgiBot partner on embodied AI thestar.com.my ↗ Secondary
• 2026-03-11 AgiBot World 2026 released huggingface.co ↗ Major outlet
• 2026-02-02 MR. ROBOT and AgiBot partner for MR D.I.Y. stores nasilemaktech.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-01-13 AgiBot opens experience centre at i-City thestar.com.my ↗ Secondary
• 2026-01-07 Rest of World: China's state-funded robot training centers restofworld.org ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-03-09 AgiBot World (Colosseo paper) released arxiv.org ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-02-11 AgiBot World Beta released huggingface.co ↗ Major outlet
• 2024-12-30 AgiBot World dataset alpha released github.com ↗ Major outlet
• 2024-12-30 AgiBot World Alpha released huggingface.co ↗ Major outlet

Sources

• Currently, the data acquisition center deploys nearly 100 robots.kr-asia.com ↗ Secondary 2025
• In some cases, they wear virtual reality headsets to help the robots replicate human movements with greater accuracy.kr-asia.com ↗ Secondary 2025
• 30,000–50,000 data points every daykr-asia.com ↗ Secondary 2025
• Shanghai authorities supported the establishment of an AgiBot data‑collection site where hundreds of robots are tele‑operated to generate training data for embodied‑AI modelswikipedia.org ↗ Secondary 2025-05-13
• Founded in 2023 by former Huawei engineers Deng Taihua and Peng Zhihuiwikipedia.org ↗ Secondary
• AgiBot Innovation pledging a potential investment of RM1 billion by 2035, alongside the creation of 5,000 job opportunitiestheedgemalaysia.com ↗ Secondary 2026-09-23
• we rolled out our 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robotsthestar.com.my ↗ Secondary 2026-01-13
• 企业侧布局最广的是智元机器人，已在上海浦东/临港、成都郫都、无锡、南昌、嘉兴、重庆、珠海、贵安等地建成或签约9处数据采集中心和训练场sina.com.cn ↗ Secondary 2026-09-20
• 设置超过200个细分场景任务、覆盖3000多类操作物品，除供给自身研发外，还对外开源了AgiBotWorld系列真实数据集。sina.com.cn ↗ Secondary 2026-09-20
• 智元无锡工厂部署300台机器人，年有效数据50万小时163.com ↗ Secondary 2026-09-02

Every row links to its source, and hovering a link shows the quote it rests on. Research compiled 2026-10-05. Method