Ant Group's Lingbo open-sources full-stack embodied AI 2.0

On November 3, 2026, a live retail-pharmacy setup opened at the Wuzhen Summit, the annual World Internet Conference in China. An 80-cm-wide aisle was lined with densely packed medicines, and a robot moved through it receiving orders, locating the target product, and picking and handing it over. This was not a concept demo: the same solution had already been running routinely at multiple Shanghai outlets of GuoDa Pharmacy, taking over high-frequency, repetitive sorting work from pharmacists.

The underlying stack is the Embodied Brain Full Stack 2.0 released by Robbyant (蚂蚁灵波), the robotics unit under Ant Group. It is not a single model but a package of multiple models spanning vision, depth perception, world models, and motion decision-making, covering the full chain from high-precision spatial understanding to environment comprehension and real-time action execution. Robbyant opened source its LingBot model series — weights, code, and documentation — in January this year, making the stack available for adaptation, training, and secondary development by researchers, developers, and enterprises. The materials ship ready-to-use multimodal weights and complete documentation, and Ant says the software has been validated through large-scale deployment in real retail operations.

By the time of the InfoQ report on November 4, 2026, the GitHub repositories had accumulated over 33,000 stars and the models had been downloaded more than 2.2 million times. The report states that Stanford professor Li Fei-Fei's team and KAIST have each reused components from the suite in their own research, which Ant cites as evidence of the stack's engineering reusability beyond its original developers. Those figures and reuse claims are presented in the reporting rather than independently verified. According to the available coverage, that is where things stand: an open-source full-stack release, routine operation in live Shanghai pharmacies, and a public showcase at Wuzhen — with no follow-up releases reported yet.