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AgiBot's new flagship humanoid works a full shift — and goes to charge itself

AgiBot used the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on 20 July 2026 to unveil the A3 Ultra, a humanoid aimed less at demonstrations than at factory rosters. It stands 1.74 m, weighs 60 kg, has 51 degrees of freedom and carries 5 kg per arm, running on NVIDIA's Thor compute platform. The specification that matters most is endurance. AgiBot rates the robot at up to eight hours on a charge and gives it three ways to keep going: conventional charging, a hot battery swap, and autonomous docking, in which the robot breaks off its task and returns to a charger without a human involved. Sensing is built for mixed environments — 3D LiDAR, RGB-D, fisheye and binocular cameras, and GPS, RTK and UWB positioning so the machine can locate itself outside a building as well as inside one. The A3 Ultra was shown with three other products: the X2 Edu teaching platform (1.3 m, 29 degrees of freedom), the heavy-payload G2 Max for material handling, and the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M dexterous hand, which packs 20 degrees of freedom into 0.65 kg. Shortly before the show, AgiBot said its 15,000th robot had come off the line — a figure that follows the 10,000th unit reported in March 2026. Neither a price nor a delivery date has been announced, so wujec.ai lists the new profile as a pilot until customer shipments are confirmed. The earlier AgiBot A2 keeps its own entry.