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Chinese embodied AI sets global record: 1,816 parcels sorted per hour at 30% cost, beating Figure AI by 45%
Chinese embodied AI firm Xizi Robot set a global sorting record in a live-streamed test, sustaining 1,816 parcels per hour with a dual-arm gripper setup — over 45% faster than Figure AI's published 1,248-per-hour average, at roughly 30% of the hardware cost. The performance is driven by its self-developed WALL-B world unified model, with accuracy reaching 98%.
Chinese embodied AI company Xizi Robot (自变量机器人) completed a public live-streamed test sorting parcels with a dual-arm, standard-gripper setup — no human fallback, no fixed scripts, and randomly arriving packages — sustaining a sorting rate of 1,816 parcels per hour.
Why it matters
The record shows embodied AI competition shifting from hardware stacking to model capability, potentially accelerating commercial deployment in logistics sorting and putting direct pressure on overseas rivals like Figure AI.
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