Tens of Thousands Tune In: Good News From Yunqi's Robot Friends | Yunqi x WRC 2025

Over the past few days, shoulder-to-shoulder crowds and robots squeezed into every gap combined to create this year's most talked-about spectacle in China's tech world. Powered by rapidly evolving embodied intelligence technology, the decade-old World Robot Conference hosted its most "human" edition yet.

In the exhibition halls, robots weaved through the crowds — dancing, boxing, crafting sachets, brewing coffee. The occasional stumble only underscored a truth: imperfection itself is the engine of evolution. On stage, practitioners aired their views on the real questions surrounding embodied models, hardware, data, and commercialization. Disagreements abounded, but disagreement itself is where vitality comes from.

The five-day conference distilled the essence of an industry growing fast and exploring in every direction. Yunqi Capital's portfolio companies in the embodied intelligence space showed plenty of life: new product launches, business updates, and partners teasing plans still to come.

On the afternoon of August 12, the conference closed as a sudden downpour swept through. The rain washed away the event's bustle, but it couldn't dampen the embodied intelligence boom. As the conference wrapped up, here's a roundup of fresh news from Yunqi's robot friends.

X Variable Robotics

"Brain" and "Body" Both Arrive

"After this WRC, we're now a complete company with hardware and full-stack integration." On August 9, at a conference-themed event co-hosted by Yunqi Capital and Infinite Fund SEE Fund, X Variable founder and CEO Qian Wang said this during a panel discussion.

The "hardware" Wang referred to is the Quanta X2, a new-generation wheeled humanoid robot X Variable unveiled at the conference. Developed in under six months, the robot — including its five-finger dexterous hand with 20 degrees of freedom — was built entirely through X Variable's full-stack self-development.

With 62 degrees of freedom across the whole body, an arm span of 76.5cm, and vertical workspace covering 0-2 meters fully... the Quanta X2's hardware design is impressive. Layer on top the "ace skill" of X Variable's brain — the end-to-end unified VLA model WALL-A — and you get the complete technical stack of X Variable's software-hardware integration. We look forward to seeing X Variable robots deployed in markets at home and abroad.

Square Intelligence Technology

From Exhibition Booth to Factory Floor, and Soon to the Airport

Brewing coffee, making ice cream, moving and stacking boxes, playing drums — at this year's WRC, Square Intelligence's general-purpose intelligent robot "Aibao" switched freely between scenarios, demonstrating the understanding and planning capabilities powered by its self-developed Alpha Brain and end-to-end embodied foundation model GOVLA.

Its performance in industrial scenarios was particularly eye-catching. An overseas industrial robotics researcher who came to observe told us they had specifically made the trip after hearing that "Aibao" had already entered real-world environments like auto plants and semiconductor production lines. The omnidirectional-wheel version of "Aibao," unveiled for the first time at this event, completed a full demonstration of the moving and stacking workflow in the industrial module of the booth.

According to Square Intelligence's teaser, "Aibao" will also enter airports in first-tier cities in Q3 of this year; in September, its own factory will begin production, forming a closed loop of self-developed design, manufacturing, and delivery.

Stardust Intelligence

Integrated Platform Empowerment, Silky-Smooth Versatility

On the eve of WRC, Stardust Intelligence released an integrated "body + data + model" platform, aiming to provide full-stack solutions from hardware to algorithms for different scenarios and users. At the conference, this philosophy found its most intuitive expression in the Astribot S1.

Three immersive display zones let the Astribot S1 serve as a "robot companion for a day": preparing breakfast and packing bags in the morning, precisely brewing coffee at the café in the afternoon, and co-creating intangible cultural heritage lacquer fans with visitors in the evening — high precision and compliant control working together with silky smoothness.

In the "real robot teleoperation zone," everyone from children to seniors could wear simple equipment to control the S1 with low latency, their movements replicated with millisecond-level precision and fluidity. The secret lies in S1's innovative tendon-driven transmission and extremely smooth hardware structure, which can capture "cleaner," more precise motion data — which then feeds back into model training, making the robot's execution as fluid as a human hand.

Keenon Robotics

Humanoid Newcomer Debuts at World's First Embodied Intelligence 4S Store

As the embodied intelligent robotics company with the largest global commercial deployment, Keenon Robotics brought its newly released bipedal humanoid robot XMAN-F1. It appeared not only at the booth but was also invited to take up residence at the world's first embodied intelligent robotics 4S store, and hosted a new product launch at a conference forum — alongside its "brother" XMAN-R1, mixing cocktails and popping popcorn, showing off multiple skills in one go.

Beside it, a lineup of specialized service robots each with their own expertise: the delivery robot T10 shuttled nimbly between restaurant and exhibition hall, cleaning robots C40 and C30 kept the exhibition area spotless, and the room delivery robot W3 paired with a smart cabinet to deliver iced drinks.

More than ten positions covered by general-purpose and specialized robots working in coordination, spanning dining, hospitality, healthcare, and other application scenarios — demonstrating Keenon's leading capabilities in commercializing embodied intelligence.

RealMan Intelligent

Embodied Intelligence Foundation Evolves Further

From integrated joints to ultra-lightweight humanoid robotic arms, to AI physiotherapy robots, moxibustion robots, embodied dual-arm lifting platform logistics and warehousing handlers, and robotic convenience stores — RealMan showcased application examples of its embodied "foundation" covering fifteen major scenarios. It also partnered with 40 upstream and downstream ecosystem partners in the embodied intelligence industry chain to unveil multiple applied innovations.

The new RealBOT embodied open-source platform is purpose-built for high-quality real-robot data collection, refined through one million data points across ten application scenarios at the Shijingshan Humanoid Robot Data Training Center. It has been deeply integrated with the "remote worker" platform to build a human-machine collaboration closed loop from "no intelligence" to "liberating humans."

According to reports, RealMan also participated as a core equipment and technology provider in the Shijingshan Humanoid Robot Data Training Center.

After 120 hours of buzz, what remains is resolve and ambition. Beyond the exhibition hall, innovation continues every day. Yunqi Capital will keep walking alongside its robot friends, bringing the warmth of technology into more people's lives.