BEIJING, April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PsiBot's Robots Are Playing Mahjong While Others Are Still Learning to Walk
While most embodied robots are still focusing on basic motion control such as walking and running, PsiBot's robots have pioneered long-horizon complex tasks in open environments, playing Mahjong with humans.
And Mahjong is no simple task.
It's a strategic, multi-layered game requiring precise manipulation—drawing, discarding, organizing tiles—and even more importantly, long-horizon planning: evaluating one's own tiles, interpreting the game state, and predicting opponents' moves. This blend of dexterous action and complex reasoning makes Mahjong one of the most demanding challenges for robotics today.
Redefining Dexterity: From Pick & Place to Long-Horizon Manipulation
Robotic manipulation can be broken down into three levels of complexity:
L1: Basic pick-and-place tasks in static environments without autonomous reasoning and dexterous manipulation
L2: Human-like manipulation in dynamic environments—featuring grips like lateral pinch, tripod, or power sphere without cognition chain to complete complex multi-modal tasks.
L3: Autonomous reasoning system based on Chain of Action Thought (CoAT) to make decisions and perform long-horizon complicated manipulation in open environments.
Playing Mahjong is a typical L3 task.
Only with L3-level CoAT capabilities to perform long-horizon tasks can robots understand their environment, make decisions, learn from experience, and adapt to new tasks—skills essential for real-world deployment. PsiBot addresses this challenge with its novel R1 model, built on a hierarchical end-to-end architecture and powered by reinforcement learning (RL).
In real-world Mahjong scenarios, R1 has demonstrated sustained and coherent CoAT capability for up to 30 minutes, executing open-ended tasks and reasoning autonomously. It empowers human-robot interaction, interaction between robots, and environment interaction, demonstrating the VLA's superb reasoning ability and the RL's ability that exceeds the upper ceiling of human thinking and manipulation. This breakthrough marks a key leap from performing a single action to completing the closed loop of perception, reasoning and execution in the complex physical world, providing a technical paradigm for embodied intelligence to land in commercial scenarios.
A Breakthrough in Architecture: PsiBot's hierarchical end-to-end model
Founded in 2024, PsiBot has taken the lead to introduce a hierarchical end-to-end architecture, composed of a planner and a controller, which are connected implicitly by Action Tokenizer and jointly perform long-horizon dexterous manipulation, a paradigm that has now become a consensus in the industry. In addition, PsiBot also uses RL throughout the system, improving task success rates, extending CoAT durations, and creating a data flywheel that continually enhances data utilization efficiency.
From Tech Demo to Industrial Edge
The R1 model is not just a lab prototype.
With L3 capabilities, it can perform in open environments —reasoning, adapting, and manipulating over long time horizons, which can be deployed in industrial, logistical, retailing, and To-C scenarios. Currently, PsiBot has partnered with leading firms in the manufacturing, retailing, and e-commerce industries to explore opportunities in commercialized scenarios.
In the end, PsiBot isn't just building robots that can walk or talk. It's building robots that can reason, plan, and perform—— in the real world.
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The Real VLA is Coming: Psi R1 Starts a New Era of Embodied AI
BANGKOK, May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Informa Markets, in collaboration with key public and private sector players in the automotive industry, is set to host MobilityTech Asia – Bangkok 2025, a major expansion of the highly successful Electric Vehicle Asia event, which has run for over a decade. The event aims to accelerate the transition to next-generation mobility—including electric vehicles (EVs), smart mobility, and clean energy solutions—under the theme "Shaping the Regional Innovation Hub for Sustainable Mobility." It will serve as a strategic platform to position Thailand as the region's center for sustainable mobility innovation, fostering business opportunities, investment, and energy transition within the Thai automotive industry, in line with international standards. The show will take place from 2–4 July 2025 at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC), Bangkok.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yossapong Laoonual, Assistant to the President for Sustainability and Head of the Mobility and Vehicle Technology Research Center (MOVE) at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), stated: "In the face of global transformation, modern mobility technologies go beyond just electric vehicles (EVs). They encompass intelligent systems aligned with the CASE concept—Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric. At the MOVE Research Center, we are committed to advancing research and development through cross-sector collaboration—government, private sector, academia, and civil society—to support the shift toward sustainable mobility and the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. We also strive to elevate Thai businesses to a globally competitive level.
This year, we are honored to support MobilityTech Asia – Bangkok 2025 (MTAB) and to co-host the Future MOVE Forum, a regional knowledge-sharing platform that brings together global experts to explore key topics such as the integration of EVs with energy grids, hydrogen vehicles and infrastructure, connected and autonomous transportation systems, and next-generation mobility services and ecosystems. We believe MTAB not only offers a space to learn and exchange innovations but also marks the beginning of collaborative efforts to steer Thailand and the region toward a sustainable mobility future."
Mr. Sanchai Noombunnam, Country General Manager of Informa Markets – Thailand, added: "For over a decade, we have led the organization of Southeast Asia's premier electric vehicle technology show. Rebranding the event as MobilityTech Asia – Bangkok (MTAB) marks a pivotal evolution to broaden our focus and cover all facets of future mobility technologies, including smart infrastructure, autonomous systems, Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), software, and cybersecurity.
This year's theme, 'Shaping the Regional Innovation Hub for Sustainable Mobility,' underscores our mission to position Thailand as a comprehensive hub for automotive innovation in Asia. A key strength of MTAB is our long-standing partnership with the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand (EVAT), a core co-organizer. Together, we're also co-hosting the iEVTech Conference, an international platform for updating trends and innovations in the industry. Additional forums include the Future MOVE Forum, ASEAN EV Round Table, and EVAT Tech Forum, covering every dimension of mobility innovation and sustainable transportation.
The event will feature over 250 leading automotive tech brands, such as 24M, ROBERT BOSCH, BYD, FUJITSU, TOSHIBA, TESLA ENERGY, and TRUMPF, as well as international pavilions from China, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom—reinforcing MTAB 2025's role as a gateway to new opportunities for Asia's mobility industry. We anticipate more than 32,000 visitors from 65 countries worldwide, solidifying this event as a key platform in advancing Thailand's potential as a center for intelligent and sustainable transportation innovation in the region."
Transform the Future of Mobility at MobilityTech Asia – Bangkok 2025 will be held alongside ASIA Sustainable Energy Week 2025 (ASEW)—the region's largest renewable energy technology exhibition—creating a powerful synergy between clean energy and sustainable mobility innovation. Join us from 2–4 July 2025 at QSNCC, Bangkok, and stay updated or register to attend at www.mobilitytechasia-bkk.com.
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