On 24 September 2026, more than 300 robots went on duty across Chimelong Spaceship Park in Hengqin, Zhuhai, as AGIBOT and Chimelong Group opened the first phase of what the two companies describe as the world's largest embodied-AI theme-park deployment. The robots staff more than 100 interaction points across entertainment, education, visitor services, retail and hotel operations.
A duty roster, not a demonstration
The difference matters. A trade-show demo runs for twenty minutes in front of an audience that knows the script. A park deployment runs daily, in public, in front of families who did not sign up to be beta testers - children grabbing at robot limbs, off-script questions, weather, and crowds.
AGIBOT, Chimelong and China Mobile built a dedicated 5G-Advanced (5G-A) network to support the deployment, with centralized multi-robot coordination, charging logistics and safety coverage across park and hotel environments. That is the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether 300 robots work as a coordinated fleet or become 300 separate problems - and it is the part of any deployment that a specification sheet never shows.
The numbers behind the launch
The opening tied the deployment to a manufacturing milestone: AGIBOT's 20,000th production robot, an Expedition A3 Ultra unit, was delivered directly to the park. Earlier in 2026 the company reported cumulative shipments passing 10,000 units, and it has been expanding internationally through partnerships in the region, including with the Vietnam National Innovation Center (NIC). The company frames 2026 as the first year of real deployment for embodied intelligence, not of demonstrations.
What buyers should read from this
You are probably not staffing a theme park. But the deployment ranks vendors on a scale that is useful everywhere:
- Continuous public service beats pilots. A fleet only proves reliability once it has run daily, unscripted, long enough for failure modes to show up on their own schedule.
- Fleet problems are infrastructure problems. Connectivity, charging, safety and service logistics are solved at fleet level, not robot level. Ask any vendor how a second and a tenth unit are managed.
- Uptime is the real product. Opening-day footage is easy. The maintenance cadence over the next two quarters is the number that matters.
AGIBOT platforms available through Robotist
AGIBOT's platforms are part of the Robotist catalogue, sourced directly from the manufacturer with integration and support:
- AGIBOT A3 Ultra - the full-size humanoid platform behind the company's deployment programs, for embodied-AI research and supervised real-world work.
- AGIBOT X2 Ultra - a half-size platform for entertainment, performance, prototyping and embodied-AI experimentation.
- AGIBOT D1 EDU - an education-focused quadruped for teaching robotics and AI development.
If you are scoping a humanoid deployment and want realistic answers about what the first phase actually takes, start a conversation with Robotist.
Sources: RobotAIGeek; AGIBOT newsroom.