en.Wedoany.com Reported - Chinese robotics company Agibot has announced that its 15,000th robot has rolled off the production line and that it has officially entered the UK market. Founded in 2023 by two former Huawei engineers, the company manufactures humanoid, quadruped, and cleaning robots for the business-to-business (B2B) sector, with applications spanning manufacturing, cleaning, entertainment, and construction.
At an event held in London on June 30, William Shi, President of Agibot's Europe and Americas region, stated that the company believes its robots can replace some human workers. Shi pointed out that people engaged in dangerous, tedious, and repetitive jobs are precisely the targets for humanoid robot replacement. He added that for certain job descriptions, workers themselves expect to be replaced because the work is boring, dangerous, and high-risk. Agibot's product line includes the full-size humanoid robot A3, the half-size humanoid robot X2, and the D1 series of quadruped robots (which resemble dogs in appearance, though the company never describes them as such).
Agibot's robots have already been deployed in Chinese manufacturing plants. A recent livestream showed G2 industrial robots working alongside human employees at the Longcheer electronics factory. Describing this deployment, Shi noted that factory workers stand for eight hours a day performing tasks such as picking up a smartphone, flipping it, placing it in a box, and passing it to the next station. He argued that these steps are easily replaceable because such work neither creates value nor brings happiness. Currently, Agibot's robots are not fully autonomous; each unit is equipped with three AI models controlling human-machine interaction, movement (locomotion), and manipulation (grasping objects). The company is improving autonomy by collecting usage data and developing AI, but Shi emphasized that these robots will always remain under human control and within expected parameters.
Beyond manufacturing, Shi also mentioned that baristas, live entertainment workers, teachers, and nurses could be replaced by robots. He stated that there are severe shortages of nurses and teachers from China to the US to Europe, and that most children's questions could be answered by robots based on large language models. However, there is still a gap between using ChatGPT for research and having robots take on teaching responsibilities. According to a 2025 study by KPMG and the University of Melbourne, nearly three-quarters of British adults use AI at work, but less than half say they trust it.
For Agibot, the business-to-consumer (B2C) market remains a long-term goal, with the company first aiming to make progress in the B2B sector. A range of business partners, including Nvidia, which provides chip sets for the robots, supported its UK market launch. Shi stated that in the future, robots will be able to take on some responsibilities in daily life, but they will never replace humans in making decisions.
