The Forbes China AI Tech Enterprises Top 50 highlights outstanding companies driving AI innovation and industrial transformation. This year's selection focuses on several key dimensions, including technological innovation, market performance, real-world application, financing strength, sustainable growth potential, and team capabilities. X Square Robot's inclusion reflects its rapid progress in embodied AI foundation models, full-stack robot development, and commercialization across real-world scenarios.

Founded in Shenzhen, X Square Robot focuses on building general-purpose embodied AI foundation models and humanoid robot hardware. The company is one of the earliest in China to pursue a fully end-to-end path toward general-purpose embodied intelligence.

Its technology stack includes WALL-A, an end-to-end embodied AI foundation model; WALL-B, an embodied AI foundation model built on a World Unified Model architecture; and WALL-OSS, one of China's leading open-source embodied AI models. Together with its QUANTA robot series, self-developed components and large-scale real-world data system, the company is building a full-stack platform designed to help robots operate and improve in complex physical environments.

"Being named to the Forbes China AI Tech Enterprises Top 50 is an important recognition of X Square Robot's long-term commitment to embodied AI," said Yang Qian, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of X Square Robot. "For robots to become truly useful, they must move beyond simple movements and controlled demonstrations. They need to operate autonomously, complete complex tasks and create value in real environments. Our strategy is built around this belief: training robots with large-scale real-world data, validating their capabilities in commercial scenarios, and continuously improving model performance through feedback from actual deployments."

X Square Robot has already advanced commercialization across multiple scenarios, including home services, industrial manufacturing, logistics, elderly care, hotels, retail, and public services. In 2026, the company further expanded public attention through its home-cleaning robot service with 58.home, bringing embodied AI into real households through a bookable consumer service.

Looking ahead, X Square Robot will continue to advance its general-purpose embodied AI foundation models, iterate its QUANTA robot hardware platform, and expand real-world deployment across high-value scenarios. The company aims to make robots more capable, more accessible, and more deeply integrated into everyday production and life.

About X Square Robot

X Square Robot is a general-purpose embodied AI and humanoid robotics company focused on building foundation models for the physical world. The company develops end-to-end embodied AI models, humanoid robot hardware, core components, and large-scale data systems. Its mission is to enable robots to understand, interact with, and serve the real world across home, industry, logistics, elderly care, hospitality, retail, and public-service scenarios.

EAIDC 2026 marks one of the first large-scale industry gatherings dedicated to embodied AI, bringing together leading researchers, developers, and technology companies to accelerate the transition of intelligent systems from laboratory research to real-world applications. The event features live robotic demonstrations, a national-level hackathon, and discussions between academia and industry focused on deployment, commercialization, and ecosystem development.

EAIDC 2026, the world's first embodied intelligence developer competition, is designed to accelerate real-world innovation through hands-on collaboration and deployment-focused challenges.

X Square Robot hosted EAIDC as part of a broader effort to contribute to the global embodied AI ecosystem and expand its role in shaping the future of intelligent systems. The competition also introduced a set of "three firsts" designed to bring embodied AI development closer to real-world conditions, including real-robot task execution, continuous system evaluation, and full end-to-end deployment workflows. Task design focused on four core capability areas — grasping and placement, language understanding, fine manipulation, and long-horizon decision-making — with participants completing challenges such as ring placement, instruction-based fruit sorting, cable plugging, and word spelling. A full-variable evaluation approach required teams to operate without preset parameters, using randomized real-world environments to test true adaptability and model robustness.

The company is operating at a time of growing global momentum around humanoid robotics, as advances in physical AI and vision-language-action (VLA) models begin to unlock more complex, real-world capabilities. The company has raised approximately $280 million to date, with backing from investors including Alibaba, ByteDance, Meituan, HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), and other leading technology and venture firms.

X Square Robot is focused on developing general-purpose humanoid systems capable of operating in dynamic, unstructured environments. Its technology centers on embodied foundation models designed to enable robots to perceive, adapt, and perform tasks across a range of real-world scenarios.

The company has begun generating early revenue from deployments across sectors including education, hospitality, and elder care, and is exploring broader applications in household services through collaborations such as its partnership with 58.com. The company has also been active in advancing technical research and industry engagement, including participation in global AI forums and academic communities such as CVPR, reflecting its commitment to contributing to both the development and commercialization of embodied intelligence.

These efforts reflect a broader industry shift toward applying AI-driven robotics to address labor shortages and operational challenges in both consumer and commercial environments.

By hosting EAIDC 2026, X Square Robot is engaging with a growing global ecosystem of developers and industry stakeholders working to define the next generation of intelligent systems. The company views this as part of a broader strategy to expand its international presence and establish itself as a global innovator in embodied AI.

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About X Square Robot

X Square Robot is a global innovator in embodied artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous systems. The company develops integrated software and hardware platforms that enable robots to perceive, reason, and act safely in complex environments. Partnering with leading universities and technology institutions, X Square Robot delivers scalable AI infrastructure and establishes open benchmarks to drive worldwide progress in intelligent robotics.

SHENZHEN, China, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- X Square Robot, a pioneer in general purpose embodied intelligence, announced today its pivotal role as a founding partner in"ManipArena", the official competition sponsored by the CVPR 2026 Embodied AI Workshop. The partnership was jointly initiated by Sun Yat Sen University in China and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi, representing a major milestone in establishing a unified, high-standard benchmarking system for embodied intelligence through large-scale, real-world robotic evaluations.

The IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the world's largest annual event in computer vision, artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. The conference draws leading researchers, engineers and technology companies to present breakthroughs shaping the next generation of visual intelligence systems and AI-driven applications.

As embodied intelligence transitions from research and development to large-scale deployment, the lack of unified, high-fidelity real-robot evaluation systems has become a key bottleneck to progress. Addressing this need, ManipArena provides a comprehensive, scientifically grounded benchmarking platform that enables quantitative, repeatable, and high-credibility evaluation across a diverse range of physical tasks and environments.

Transforming the evaluation of real-world AI systems

Building on deep technical expertise and extensive industry experience, X Square Robot has played a central role in developing ManipArena's foundational evaluation framework. The competition introduces a series of 20 real-world robotic manipulation tasks, encompassing execution reasoning, semantic reasoning, and mobile operation. Each task is supported by over 10,000 high-quality teleoperation trajectories and executed under a unified, controlled environment to guarantee fairness and comparability of results.

Unlike traditional simulation-based or simplified testing methods, ManipArena evaluates a model's true physical reasoning, generalization, and decision-making capabilities. All evaluations are conducted under consistent conditions, ensuring that performance differentials accurately reflect model capability rather than environmental variability.

"ManipArena establishes a credible, data-driven foundation for embodied intelligence assessment," said WANG Qian, founder and CEO of X Square Robot. "By grounding evaluation in reproducible real-world conditions, we enable the global AI community to measure genuine progress toward general-purpose embodied intelligence."

Founded in December 2023, X Square Robot is a trailblazer in developing general-purpose end-to-end embodied AI foundation models in China. The company's in-house developed VLA model, WALL-A, pioneered a system paradigm that deeply integrates VLA with World Models, ranking among the world's most advanced systems.

A new framework for scientific and industrial evaluation

ManipArena is distinguished through five key innovations that collectively redefine real-world AI benchmarking:

1. Unified model structure: Participating teams must deploy a single model to complete all tasks, emphasizing general reasoning over single-task optimization.

2. Layered out-of-distribution (OOD) evaluation: Each task incorporates controlled variations in material, layout, and semantics, allowing researchers to precisely chart a model's generalization curve—from minor visual shifts to unseen object categories.

3. End-to-End manipulation coverage: In addition to 15 tabletop tasks, ManipArena includes 5 full-body mobile manipulation challenges such as organizing garments and hanging pictures, addressing both precision and spatial intelligence.

4. Comprehensive multimodal dataset: A 56-dimensional dataset incorporating end-effector poses, joint positions, current feedback, joint velocities, and gripper dynamics advances the study of contact-aware control and fine manipulation.

5. Cloud-based remote testing: By leveraging X Square Robot's proprietary Quanta XI dual-arm robotic platform, ManipArena eliminates hardware barriers, enabling worldwide participation through cloud-based, real-robot testing.

Lowering Barriers, Enhancing Impact

More than a competition, ManipArena serves as an open international research and development platform. Its structured scoring design, layered variation system, and interpretable results framework make it ideally suited for both academic exploration and industry benchmarking. 

The initiative offers global participants: (1) zero hardware entry costs, with full remote testing support;  (2) Access to 188 hours of verified real-robot operational data for model training and validation; (3) transparent and interpretable evaluation metrics that move beyond traditional leaderboard approaches; and (4) endorsement by CVPR 2026, providing winning teams with an opportunity to present results at one of the world's most prestigious AI conferences.

The ManipArena program officially opened for registration and data access on March 18, inviting global research teams to prepare models for evaluation across the five preliminary tasks. The submission window will remain open until April 30, after which selected teams will advance to the final round of testing between May 6 and May 27. The initiative will culminate in an awards ceremony and technical presentations at the CVPR 2026 Embodied AI Workshop in Seattle, United States, from June 3 to June 7, where the top‑performing teams will be officially recognized.

By merging academic rigor with industrial precision, X Square Robot and its partners are establishing ManipArena as the definitive global benchmark for embodied intelligence evaluation. The initiative underscores the company's commitment to transparency, reproducibility, and cross‑sector collaboration in advancing intelligent robotic systems for real‑world adoption.

About X Square Robot

X Square Robot is a global innovator in embodied artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous systems. The company develops integrated software and hardware platforms that enable robots to perceive, reason, and act safely in complex environments. Partnering with leading universities and technology institutions, X Square Robot delivers scalable AI infrastructure and establishes open benchmarks to drive worldwide progress in intelligent robotics.

SHENZHEN, China, March 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- X Square Robot, a pioneer in general-purpose embodied intelligence, today announced a partnership with leading household service platform 58.com to launch China's first home-cleaning robot service in Shenzhen. The inaugural rollout of China's first robot cleaner marks a milestone for the transition of embodied AI from laboratory prototypes to a scalable, consumer-facing service that users can now book, experience, and evaluate.

When customers book a house-cleaning service through the 58.com app, they will now be greeted by a dual team: a professional cleaner and a robot developed by X Square Robot. Together, they carry out household cleaning tasks—the cleaner handling complex and judgment-driven work, while the robot performs structured and repetitive tasks such as wiping tables, picking up small debris, and tidying surfaces.

"This Shenzhen pilot is part of a broader partnership between 58.com and X Square Robot to scale embodied AI in the service economy," said 58.com. "We plan to expand to more Chinese cities, bringing intelligent, AI-powered services into more homes."

Digital Transformation in Home Services

As a leading household service platform in China, 58.com operates in over 200 cities, serving more than 45 million families with a network of over 4 million domestic workers. This partnership with X Square Robot demonstrates 58.com's strategic evolution from a labor-matching platform into a technology-driven provider of integrated home service solutions.

"Households are the most challenging environments for robots—unpredictable and full of edge cases," 58.com added. "By integrating Embodied AI with the daily needs of millions, we believe if a robot can master the living room, it can handle almost any physical space."

Beyond cleaning, the partnership will test X Square's technology across various lifestyle scenarios. This collaboration arrives amid a national strategic push; the 2026 Government Work Report explicitly identified "Embodied Intelligence" as a key future industry to cultivate, supported by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's new 2026 standards for humanoid robotics.

Robotics Working in the Real World

As a pioneer in general-purpose end-to-end embodied AI foundation models in China, X Square Robot develops robots powered by an embodied intelligence model designed to perceive, reason, and act in dynamic real-world environments. Unlike conventional robots that depend on scripts or remote control, X Square Robot's end-to-end model allows robots to understand tasks, plan multi-step actions, and execute them autonomously—similar to how humans learn by doing.

"Our partnership with 58.com provides us with vital user feedback and will significantly accelerate the enhancement of our robots' capabilities," stated X Square Robot. "Initially, the robot serves as an assistant for simpler tasks; our ultimate goal is for robots to become intelligent, reliable new members of every household."

Pushing Embodied Intelligence Forward

X Square Robot is one of China's first companies to pursue end-to-end embodied intelligence models purpose-built for real-world operation. The collaboration comes amid a national push to develop embodied AI and humanoid robotics. China has listed embodied intelligence as a strategic future industry, and Shenzhen has emerged as a premier testing ground for next-generation robotics and AI applications.

"Embodied intelligence is the bridge between digital AI and the physical world," said X Square Robot. "Our goal is to make robots that can truly understand and assist humans—not as mere gadgets, but as capable partners in daily life."

With leading tech companies such as Alibaba Group and Meituan already backing it from previous rounds, X Square Robot has demonstrated compelling model capabilities and product potential that continue to attract investor confidence.

"We're honored to have the strong endorsement of our world-class strategic investors," said WANG Qian, founder and CEO of X Square Robot. "At X Square, we believe the key to enabling robots to truly master real-world tasks lies in the 'robot brain'—a foundation model for the physical world that parallels virtual LLMs to shatter generalization bottlenecks. This investment underscores shared confidence in our role as a catalyst for technological progress and will accelerate our expansion into high-value applications."

WALL-A: Integrating VLA with World Models for Continuous Real-World Evolution

Founded in December 2023, X Square Robot is a trailblazer in developing general-purpose end-to-end embodied AI foundation models in China. The company's in-house developed VLA model, WALL-A, pioneered a system paradigm that deeply integrates VLA with World Models, ranking among the world's most advanced systems. By using World Models to predict actions and causal inference to understand feedback, the model significantly enhances the zero-shot generalization capabilities of robots performing mobile manipulation tasks in unstructured environments.

Simultaneously, large-scale real-robot reinforcement learning (RL) allows the foundation model to learn through physical interaction. This data-driven approach enables the robot to autonomously refine its skills and perform complex tasks in real-world environments.

Alongside the development of WALL‑A, X  Square Robot introduced WALL‑OSS in September 2025, an open‑source version of its model family designed to democratize embodied intelligence and accelerate community‑driven innovation.

"The next phase of competition in embodied intelligence is essentially a battle of foundation models built on data closed-loops and their capacity for model evolution," noted Mr. Wang.

To win this race, X Square Robot is also adhering to a closed-loop iteration of hardware, data, and models. As the first company in China to scale up real-world data resources, it has developed advanced data capture tools—including teleoperation, exoskeletons, and Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI). The company has also established a model-driven data pipeline that generates high-quality data at scale. By using the foundation model to provide feedback on hardware design and data processing, X Square Robot is improving acquisition efficiency and model performance, creating a self-reinforcing "flywheel".

A First in Robotics: Fully Autonomous Food Delivery Using Foundation Models

This end-to-end adaptability is proof that embodied AI has moved into practical, real-world deployment. A landmark breakthrough was recently demonstrated in autonomous food delivery, powered by Wall-A, where the Quanta X1, X Square Robot's wheeled bimanual robot, successfully navigated indoor and outdoor tasks to complete a delivery in an open environment.

During the mission, Quanta X1 handled challenges such as strong winds, deformed packaging, and visual occlusions. Much like a human, the robot used the model's causal inference to "fill in the blanks" when objects were partially hidden. When encountering operational stalls or friction, the robot autonomously self-corrects and completes the task loop without any human intervention.

This capacity is also demonstrated in complex logistics; facing piles of parcels, the robot utilizes zero-shot generalization to identify irregular items. Notably, the model's evolution has unlocked the potential of high DoF (degree of freedom) dexterous hands, mastering human-like skills from tool use to precise card dealing—successfully conquering the "last centimeter" of precision manipulation.

From Full-Stack R&D to Multi-Scenario Deployment

Driven by model and data requirements, X Square Robot has deeply defined its hardware architecture, releasing two high-performance robots: Quanta X1 and the Quanta X2, a wheeled humanoid robot. Meanwhile, X Square Robot also uses in-house developed core components—including robotic arms, joint modules, and controllers—establishing a solid foundation for mass production and commercial scale.

"X Square Robot continues to iterate across our three core pillars: models, data pipelines, and hardware," said Wang. "By leveraging our technical depth and full-stack R&D, we consistently push the boundaries of robot performance."

Today, X Square Robot's solutions are driving "a new era where embodied intelligence powers every layer of productivity." Its technologies are increasingly deployed across key industry verticals—from advanced manufacturing and autonomous logistics to senior healthcare services.

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