AgiBot launches smart retail warehouse with full-size humanoid robots on Wuhan riverfront

AgiBot has partnered with Wuhan Cultural Tourism Group and Zhongyun Weixun to launch a smart retail warehouse operated by full-size bipedal humanoid robots at the Jiangyu Bridge-Pier Movie Camp on Hankou Riverfront. According to a report by leaderobot.com on October 21, 2026, the Expedition A3 Ultra handled 827 orders in 18 days, with an overall grasping success rate of more than 97%. The report says the robot handles more than 10 types of products, including snacks and drinks, from identification and grasping through delivery.

The announcement describes an effort to use full-size humanoid robots at a tourism site to process orders. AgiBot says the robot handled 827 orders in 18 days at Hankou Riverfront, with a success rate of more than 97%, indicating that evaluation is shifting from demonstrations to order fulfillment.

The focus is not on displaying or demonstrating the robot, but on moving into retail fulfillment involving order processing in a public space with significant foot traffic at Hankou Riverfront. According to leaderobot.com, the Expedition A3 Ultra handled 827 orders in 18 days, with a success rate of more than 97%. This is less a showcase of the robot’s standalone performance than evidence that full-size bipedal humanoid robots are entering a phase in which they are used as commercial work units. In previous coverage, we have reported AgiBot emphasizing deployment and real-world operations in several contexts. AgiBot and Ant Afu report smart guidance pilot at Peking University People’s Hospital focused on guidance services in a medical setting, while AgiBot partners with more than 20 universities to develop embodied AI talent focused on talent development. This time, the robot is being used not in an adjacent field such as education or health care, but in retail fulfillment, including product selection, grasping and delivery. The company’s deployment is therefore an expansion into a new use case, while also imposing more stringent demands on the tasks involved. From an industry perspective, the case shows that humanoid robots are increasingly being assessed not only on their conversational abilities, but on an entire sequence of tasks that includes identification, grasping, delivery, operating hours and handling nighttime crowds. The 700 TOPS and three-layer heterogeneous computing architecture are prerequisites for running perception and control on site, while UWB+RTK and eight-hour endurance are conditions needed for sustained outdoor operations. The question, therefore, is not how the robot looks, but how reproducibly it can meet these conditions. The report also says the robot handles more than 10 types of snacks and drinks, with the range of products likely to affect the difficulty of operations. Questions remain about the conditions and workload under which the 827-order result can be replicated, the circumstances in which the high grasping success rate can be maintained, and the types of products and layouts to which the operation may expand. The report describes commercial operating results, but does not detail long-term utilization trends or the cost structure. See the original report for details.

The Hankou Riverfront case requires the robot to identify, grasp and deliver snacks and drinks, as well as handle large outdoor crowds and operate for eight hours. Similar deployments in Japan would also require strong systems integration encompassing not just the robot itself, but perception, localization, charging and on-site operations.