Former Huawei “Genius Youth” Peng Zhihui’s Startup AgiBot Releases Embodied Foundation Model GO-1

AgiBot, founded by Huawei Technologies’ former “Genius Youth” recruit Peng Zhihui, unveiled the Genie Operator-1 (GO-1), an innovative generalist embodied foundation model, on March 10. Go-1 introduces an innovative Vision-Language-Latent-Action (ViLLA) architecture that combines a Vision Language Model (VLM) with a hierarchical approach.

GO-1 enables robots to learn from human videos and achieve few-shot rapid generalization. Built on the AgiBot World dataset, the technology has been successfully deployed across multiple robot platforms developed by AgiBot.

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GO-1 leverages latent action representations to maximize data utilization from both human and robot data, giving robots revolutionary learning capabilities that generalize across diverse environments and objects. Policies pre-trained on the AgiBot World dataset show an average performance improvement of 30% over those trained on Open X-Embodiment, with GO-1 achieving over 60% success rates on complex tasks and outperforming the previous state-of-the-art policy RDT by 32%.

GO-1 is built upon AgiBot World Colosseo, a large-scale platform comprising over 1 million trajectories covering 217 tasks across five deployment scenarios. Unlike previous datasets, AgiBot World focuses on real-world scenarios involving dual-arm manipulation, dexterous hands, and collaborative tasks, going beyond basic tabletop tasks.

Peng Zhihui left Huawei in December 2022 to start his entrepreneurial journey. In February 2023, he established Sangpeng (Shanghai) Technology with a 13.79% investment stake, which later invested in AgiBot, now holding a 30.37% share.

Founded in February 2023, AgiBot is a robot brand based in Shanghai. The company focuses on the innovative integration of AI and robotics to develop and produce general-purpose humanoid robots.

The company has progressed rapidly, completing angel round funding in March 2023, followed by Series A, A+, and A++ rounds in April and August of the same year. In August 2023, they officially released the Expedition A1 intelligent robot.

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