Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots

AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.
The Robot Report

AgiBot deploys its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system

AgiBot said its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system lets robots learn new skills in minutes on a pilot production line.
TMCnet

AgiBot Achieves First Real-World Deployment of Reinforcement Learning in Industrial Robotics

SHANGHAI, Nov. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AgiBot, a robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, announced a key milestone with the successful deployment of its Real-World Reinforcement ...
InfoWorld

Reinforcement learning comes into AI’s mainstream

One of the most noteworthy artificial intelligence trends in 2018 has been the maturation of reinforcement learning into a mainstream approach for building and training statistical models to do useful ...
Wired

Amazon Wants You to Code the AI Brain for This Little Car

Two years ago, Alphabet researchers made computing history when their artificial intelligence software AlphaGo defeated a world champion at the complex board game Go. Amazon now hopes to democratize ...
MIT Technology Review

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...