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Minglue Technology and Hikrobot Debut “Agent + Embodied” Push for Commercial Robots at World Robot Conference
Minglue Technology (2718.HK) and Hikrobot jointly exhibited at the 2026 World Robot Conference, showcasing their “Agent + embodied” progress in commercial services. The partnership marks a push to bring large-model agents and physical robots into real commercial robot scenarios.
On August 21, Minglue Technology (2718.HK) and Hikrobot jointly appeared at the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC), showcasing their progress in embodied intelligence for commercial services. According to QbitAI, the two companies entered the commercial robot arena with a combined “Agent + embodied” offering.
Minglue Technology is a Hong Kong-listed AI company with ongoing work on large-model agents, while Hikrobot brings robotics hardware and vision perception capabilities. The joint exhibition pairs an agent's planning and decision-making with a physical robot's sensing and execution.
The collaboration focuses on commercial service scenarios, where the agent handles task understanding, route planning, and interactive decisions while the embodied robot performs real-world movement and manipulation, forming a complete brain-plus-body loop.
This reflects a broader trend of embodied AI moving from laboratories into real commercial settings, with service robots in dining, retail, and guided tours among the earliest landing spots.
For the industry, the Agent-plus-embodied combination means robots are no longer devices executing fixed programs but agents that can understand tasks and plan autonomously, changing how commercial robots are delivered.
What to watch next: whether the two companies disclose concrete commercial cases and deployment scale, and whether the joint solution moves into actual rollout after the World Robot Conference.
Why it matters
The joint push signals that large-model agents and physical robots are moving faster into commercial service scenarios, sharpening the commercialization path for embodied AI.
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