AgiBot Genie G2 robots run 24-hour live-streamed store shift

On November 2-3, 2026, six Zhiyuan Genie G2 robots ran a 24-hour continuous operation livestream at a convenience store in Shanghai's Xuhui District, handling greeter duties, item picking, restocking, coffee making, and cleaning. According to Zhiyuan, the six robots completed 1,730 tasks in total during the test, including 683 customer receptions, 369 item pick-and-deliver operations, and 147 coffees made, while the livestream drew more than 2 million views across platforms.

Ren Guanghui, vice president of the Zhiyuan Embodied Research Center, explained that a convenience store tests a robot's ability to adapt far more than comparatively fixed industrial or sorting environments do. Customers walking around, shifting product shapes, and multiple tasks interfering with one another can all disrupt progress. Fine manipulation also poses challenges: picking up a golden rice cake, for instance, requires controlling the contact point and grip force of the gripper, followed by a sequence of bagging, withdrawing the gripper, and re-grasping.

Earlier testing also surfaced issues, including failed orders, order statuses that failed to update, and positioning conflicts between robots. Zhiyuan said the experiment was intended to test whether robots can cope with problems that cannot be fully pre-scripted, and to use real-world operating experience to improve future performance. Prior to the store test, on October 27, 2026, the company released the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, focusing on Physical RSI (recursive self-improvement) technology. No further developments have been reported since the test results were disclosed.