Interviews

Conversations with founders, researchers and engineers.

AgiBot Unveils World Model Platform and Next-Gen Robot at WAIC

At the 2025 WAIC, AgiBot unveiled 'Genie Envisioner,' an open-source world model platform for dual-arm robots. Partner Yao Maoqing discussed the company's embodied AI flywheel, the upcoming Genie G2 robot with hot-swappable battery capabilities, and commercialization progress in industrial and service sectors.

Jul 28, 2025

1X AI VP: Dancing Robots Are Cool, But Useless in the Home

In an interview with The Humanoid Hub, 1X AI Vice President Eric Jang discusses why dancing robots lack utility in home environments, highlights 1X's hardware-first strategy, and emphasizes the critical role of world models in embodied AI.

Jul 11, 2025

Luobo Intelligence’s Sun Zhaozhi: Why Emotional Companion Robots, Not General AI, Are the Next Frontier

Sun Zhaozhi, founder of LuoBo AI, discusses the future of emotional companion robots, contrasting them with general-purpose embodied AI and highlighting the potential for a trillion-dollar market focused on personalized, emotionally intelligent Personal Robots.

Jan 6, 2025