ACE ROBOTICS today unveiled Kairos 3.1, its latest action-oriented world model, alongside Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 and three commercial solutions spanning instant retail, hospitality and outdoor service scenarios. The announcements were made at a forum ACE ROBOTICS organized during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, convened around the theme of advancing physical AI from 'understanding' to 'execution.'
The forum also marked the launch of PHYSICAL IQ, a unified benchmark for embodied physical intelligence. It was jointly initiated by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Association, the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute and the East China branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, with participation from more than 20 universities and industry partners.
'In the digital world, a model error may result in a flawed image or paragraph. In the physical world, an incorrect action can have real consequences,' said Wang Xiaogang, Chairman of ACE ROBOTICS. 'Kairos 3.1 is built around a first-principles approach to embodied world models, helping robots act more reliably in complex and uncertain environments.'
Kairos 3.1 is designed as a natively unified model that integrates generative, physical and cognitive intelligence within a single architecture. Built on a hybrid Transformer architecture with a shared mixed-attention mechanism, it brings visual observations, language instructions, force and tactile signals, and policy trajectories into a unified latent space. This supports an 'understand, reason, execute and reflect' loop.
At the core of its spatial understanding is ACE-BRAIN-0.5, which achieved state-of-the-art results across 12 public evaluations covering spatial understanding, navigation, manipulation and task-progress assessment. For physical generation and reasoning, Kairos-HomeWorld supports whole-home scene generation and object interaction, built on 300,000 residential floor plans and 5,000 simulated home environments.
ACE ROBOTICS also introduced the 'Information-Density Law' for embodied models, classifying embodied data across five levels. Ambient Capture Engine 2.0, built on this principle, includes ACE Ego Kit, ACE Data Engine, and ACE Ego Matrix. The company open-sourced ACE Ego Matrix and released ACE-Data-0, an L5 household-interaction dataset.
Three standardized industry solutions were introduced: Xiaoman for instant retail with the W1 fulfillment robot, Xiaoxin for hotel-laundry operations, and Xiaotu for outdoor autonomous operations on quadruped platforms. ACE ROBOTICS plans to deploy Xiaoman across 1,000 retail locations within a year.
The company also announced strategic collaborations with Caohejing Development Zone, PetroChina, Kuaikeda, and SenseTime Shanhui, and launched the World Model Cloud Ecosystem initiative with Baidu AI Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud and SenseCore AI Cloud. By connecting high-density data, unified world models, robot platforms, commercial applications and shared evaluation standards, ACE ROBOTICS aims to support the transition of embodied AI from demonstrations to sustained real-world operations.
