Maniformer (觅蜂科技, AgiBot data spin-off)
China centre, HQ China, founded 2026. Incubated inside AgiBot in Feb 2026; China Telecom led a several-hundred-million-yuan round in Aug 2026; CEO Yao Maoqing says a pro teleoperator yields only 2 to 3 effective hours per 8-hour day.
Open in the directory →Data it collects
Egocentric video
Workers in
ChinaScale
- 20,000th MEgo capture device off the line; over 1M hours of data produced (2026-08-31)
- Crowdsourcing app 觅蜂派 had 20,000 registered users and 13,000 tasks in beta (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. Secondarycn ↗ - 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. Secondarycn ↗ - 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. Secondarymy ↗ - 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. Secondarymy ↗ - 2026-01-07 Rest of World: China's state-funded robot training centers restofworld.
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
8月31日，觅蜂科技公司宣布第2万套MEgo无本体数采设备下线，并称已累计生产超过100万小时数据。
ifeng.com ↗ Secondary 2026-09-028月17日，智元旗下的数据公司觅蜂科技宣布完成新一轮数亿元融资，由中国电信领投。
qq.com ↗ Secondary 2026-08-189月23日，觅蜂科技发布“觅蜂派”众包数据采集平台，人戴上头戴式设备在真实场景中正常作业即可完成采集，内测期间注册用户达2万人，提交任务1.3万份。
qq.com ↗ Secondary 2026-09-29一名专业遥操员一天工作8小时，平均只能产出2到3小时有效数据。
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