SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 28, 2026--
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, today announced the open-source release of LingBot-VLA, a vision-language-action (VLA) model designed to serve as a “universal brain” for real-world robotics, which helps reduce post-training costs and accelerate the path to scalable deployment.
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So far, LingBot-VLA has been successfully adapted to robots from leading manufacturers, including Galaxea Dynamics and AgileX Robotics, demonstrating strong cross-morphology transfer capabilities across diverse robot platforms.
The model’s performance was evaluated on the GM-100 benchmark, a comprehensive evaluation suite open-sourced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University that comprises 100 real-world tasks. In tests conducted across three distinct physical robot platforms, LingBot-VLA achieved higher task success rates than other evaluated models. Notably, when depth information was included, the model’s spatial perception improved significantly, setting a new record on task success rate.
Additionally, on the RoboTwin 2.0 simulation benchmark, which features 50 challenging tasks under intense environmental randomization, including varying lighting, clutter, and height perturbations, LingBot-VLA leveraged its learnable query alignment mechanism to integrate depth cues effectively and achieved a higher task success rate in complex scenarios, demonstrating robust performance on both simulation and real-world deployment.
To date, the deployment of embodied AI has been hampered by cross-platform generalization challenges stemming from differences in robot morphology, task definitions and operating environments. Developers are often forced to repeatedly collect data, retrain models, and fine-tune parameters for each new deployment, leading to high costs, low reusability, and limited scalability.
To address these challenges, LingBot-VLA was pre-trained on over 20,000 hours of large-scale real-world interaction data, covering nine mainstream dual-arm robot configurations, including AgileX, Galaxea R1Pro, RILite, and AgiBot G1. This enables a single model, or a universal brain, to be deployed across a wide range of robotic morphologies, including single-arm, dual-arm, and humanoid platforms, while maintaining high success rates and robustness despite variations in tasks, environments, or hardware configurations.
Beyond generalization, LingBot-VLA also demonstrates strong data and computational efficiency. With comprehensive optimizations to its underlying codebase, LingBot-VLA achieves a 1.5x to 2.8x improvement in training speed compared with other frameworks such as StarVLA and OpenPI.
Notably, this open-source release includes not only the model weights but also a complete, production-ready codebase, featuring tools for data processing, efficient fine-tuning, and automated evaluation. This toolchain can help shorten training cycles and reduces both compute requirements and time cost to commercial deployment, allowing developers to rapidly adapt LingBot-VLA to their own robots and use cases with minimal overhead.
Zhu Xing, CEO of Robbyant, said: “For embodied intelligence to achieve large-scale adoption, we need highly capable and cost-effective foundation models that work reliably on real hardware. With LingBot-VLA, we aim to push the limits of reusable, verifiable, and scalable embodied AI for real-world deployment. Our goal is to accelerate the integration of AI into the physical world so it can serve everyone sooner.”
“LingBot-VLA is Ant Group’s first open-source embodied AI model and marks another milestone in our efforts toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI),” Zhu added. “Ant Group is committed to advancing AGI through an open and collaborative approach. To this end, we’ve launched InclusionAI, a comprehensive technological ecosystem spanning foundational models, multimodal intelligence, reasoning, novel architectures, and embodied AI. The open-sourcing of LingBot-VLA is a key step in this initiative. We look forward to working with developers worldwide to accelerate the development and large-scale adoption of embodied intelligence and help advance progress toward AGI.”
The announcement was made as part of Robbyant’s “Evolution of Embodied AI Week” initiative. On January 27, Robbyant unveiled LingBot-Depth, a high-precision spatial perception model. When paired with LingBot-Depth, LingBot-VLA can leverage higher-quality depth representations, effectively upgrading the system’s “vision” and enabling robots to “see more clearly and act more intelligently”.
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About Robbyant
Robbyant is an embodied intelligence company within Ant Group, dedicated to advancing embodied intelligence through cutting-edge software and hardware technologies. Robbyant independently develops foundational large models for embodied AI and actively explores next-generation intelligent devices, aiming to create robotic companions and caregivers that truly understand and enhance people’s everyday lives and deliver reliable intelligent services across key use cases, such as elderly care, medical assistance, and household tasks.
To learn more about Robbyant, please visit: www.robbyant.com
On the RoboTwin 2.0 simulation benchmark, LingBot-VLA outperformed other models in cross-task generalization
On the GM-100 real-robot benchmark, LingBot-VLA outperformed other models in cross-morphology generalization
NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America" during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower," according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released on Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.
The committee's chair, Ken Martin, shared the 192-page report only after facing intense internal pressure from frustrated Democratic operatives concerned with his leadership. Martin had originally promised to release the autopsy, only to keep it under wraps for months because he was concerned it would be a distraction ahead of the midterms as Democrats mobilize to take back control of Congress.
On Tuesday, Martin apologized for his handling of the situation and conceded that the report was withheld because it “was not ready for primetime."
Although the autopsy criticizes Democrats' focus on “identity politics,” it sidesteps some of the most controversial elements of the 2024 campaign. The report does not address former President Joe Biden’s decision to seek reelection, the rushed selection of Harris to replace him on the ticket or the party's acrimonious divide over the war in Gaza.
“I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards,” Martin wrote in an essay on Substack on Thursday. “I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on it. But transparency is paramount.”
A spokesperson for Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The initial reaction from Democratic operatives was a mix of bafflement and anger over Martin's handling of the situation.
“Why not say this in 2024, or bring in more people to finish it, instead of turning this into the dumbest media cycle for 7-8 months?” Democratic strategist Steve Schale wrote on social media.
The postelection report, which was authored by Democratic consultant Paul Rivera, calls for “a renewed focus on the voters of Middle America and the South, who have come to believe they are not included in the Democratic vision of a stronger and more dynamic America for everyone.”
“Millions of Americans are suffering from poor access to healthcare, manufacturing and job losses, and a failing infrastructure, yet continue to be persuaded to vote against their best interests because they do not see themselves reflected in the America of the Democratic Party,” the report says.
The autopsy points to a reduction in support and training for Democratic state parties, voter registration shifts and “a persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters.”
Thursday's release comes as Martin confronts a crisis of confidence among party officials who are increasingly concerned about the health of their political machine barely a year into his term. Some Democratic operatives have had informal discussions about recruiting a new chair, even though most believe that Martin’s job wasn't in serious jeopardy ahead of the midterm elections.
The report found that Harris and her allies failed to focus enough on Trump's negatives, especially his felony convictions. This was part of a broader criticism that Democrats' messaging is too focused on reason and winning arguments, “even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage.”
“There was a decision in the 2024 Democratic leadership not to engage in negative advertising at the scale required,” the report states. “The Trump campaign and supportive Super PACs went full throttle against Vice President Harris, but there was not sufficient or similar negative firepower directed at Trump by Democrats.”
The report continues: “It was essential to prosecute a more effective case as to why Trump should have been disqualified from ever again taking office. The grounds were there, but the messaging did not make the case.”
Trump's attack on Harris' transgender policies were cited as a key contrast.
Specifically, the report suggested the Democratic nominee was “boxed” in by the Trump campaign's “very effective” ad that highlighted Harris' previous statement of support for taxpayer-funded gender-affirming surgeries for prison inmates.
Democratic pollsters believed that “if the Vice President would not change her position – and she did not – then there was nothing which would have worked as a response," the report said.
The report criticized Harris' outreach to key segments of America while condemning the party's focus on “identity politics.”
“Harris wrote off rural America, assuming urban/suburban margins would compensate. The math doesn’t work,” the report says. “You can’t lose rural areas by overwhelming margins and make it up elsewhere when rural voters are a significant share of the electorate. If Democrats are to reclaim leadership in the Heartland or the South, candidates must perform well in rural turf. Show up, listen, and then do it again.”
The report also references Democrats' underperformance with male voters of color.
“Male voters require direct engagement. The gender gap can be narrowed. Deploy male messengers, address economic concerns, and don’t assume identity politics will hold male voters of color,” it says.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule, in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, May 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a fireside chat on Thursday, May 7, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)
FILE - Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at DNC headquarters, Jan. 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File)
