Agibot G2 robots complete store trial, two fail assessment

Agibot deployed six G2 wheeled humanoid robots for a 24 hour trial at an operating Shanghai convenience store, reporting 1,730 completed tasks but passing only four machines in its final assessment. According to Interesting Engineering, the two robots assigned to cleaning and shelf inspection and restocking fell short of the company’s performance criteria. The result gives a more differentiated picture of retail capability than a single successful coffee order or product handoff.

The Agibot G2 robots worked at a store in Shanghai’s Xuhui district from 10 a.m. on November 2 to 10 a.m. on November 3. Agibot reported 683 customer service interactions, 369 product pickups and deliveries, 147 coffee orders and 126 breakfast servings. Its tally also included 277 shelf inspection and restocking tasks and 128 table cleaning assignments. Those figures are counts of completed tasks, while the pass and fail results reflect the company’s assessment of the robots assigned to those duties.

Called “Robots Never Clock Out,” the experiment was livestreamed and attracted more than two million viewers across online platforms, Interesting Engineering reported. The operationally useful feature was its duration in a working store: the trial covered the lunchtime rush, evening peak hours, overnight operations and the following morning’s breakfast rush. That exposed the machines to changing customer activity and store conditions across four operating periods, rather than a brief demonstration of one rehearsed task.

Source: Interesting Engineering