ACE ROBOTICS today unveiled Kairos 3.1, its latest action-oriented world model, alongside Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 and three commercial solutions spanning instant retail, hospitality and outdoor service scenarios. The announcements were made at a forum ACE ROBOTICS organized during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, convened around the theme of advancing physical AI from 'understanding' to 'execution.' The event brought together economists, technology executives and embodied AI researchers to examine how general-purpose world models can move from laboratory research to industrial deployment.
The forum also marked the launch of PHYSICAL IQ, a unified benchmark for embodied physical intelligence. It was jointly initiated by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Association, the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute and the East China branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, with participation from more than 20 universities and industry partners.
Kairos 3.1 is designed as a natively unified model that integrates generative, physical and cognitive intelligence within a single architecture. Built on a hybrid Transformer architecture with a shared mixed-attention mechanism, it brings visual observations, language instructions, force and tactile signals, and policy trajectories into a unified latent space. This supports an 'understand, reason, execute and reflect' loop, enabling the model to break down long-horizon tasks, simulate physical cause and effect, rank candidate actions, execute strategies and evaluate outcomes for further adjustment.
ACE ROBOTICS also introduced what it calls the 'Information-Density Law' for embodied models: the value of data is determined not only by its volume, but by whether it contains information capable of changing the outcome of an agent's actions. Built on this principle, Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 is a human-centric system for capturing, processing and reusing high-density physical-interaction data. The company open-sourced the ACE Ego Matrix framework, which it says placed first on the RoboCase and RoboTwin leaderboards.
Three standardized industry solutions were introduced: Xiaoman for instant retail paired with the W1 fulfillment robot, Xiaoxin for hotel-laundry operations, and Xiaotu for autonomous operation in complex outdoor environments using a 'one brain, many bodies' architecture. ACE ROBOTICS plans to deploy the Xiaoman solution across 1,000 retail locations over the next year and expand to approximately 10,000 stores within two years.
ACE ROBOTICS also announced a series of partnerships spanning infrastructure, computing and commercial deployment, including collaborations with PetroChina, Kuaikeda and SenseTime Shanhui, as well as the World Model Cloud Ecosystem initiative with Baidu AI Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud and SenseCore AI Cloud.
By connecting high-density data, unified world models, robot platforms, commercial applications and shared evaluation standards, ACE ROBOTICS aims to support the transition of embodied AI from individual technical demonstrations to sustained operations in real-world environments.
