SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 7, 2026--
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, today announced the launch of LingBot-Depth 2.0, a next-generation spatial perception model, alongside its foundational visual model, LingBot-Vision. This release marks a significant leap in robotic spatial perception, empowering robots to accurately understand and navigate the physical world.
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From "Seeing" to "Seeing Accurately"
Building upon the success of LingBot-Depth, which pioneered the Masked Depth Modeling (MDM) technique to resolve depth sensing challenges for transparent and reflective surfaces, LingBot-Depth 2.0 represents a massive scale-up in training data and performance.
Trained on 150 million samples, the new model achieves top rankings in 12 out of 16 depth completion benchmarks. Most notably, in the most demanding indoor scenarios with massive depth loss, LingBot-Depth 2.0 halves the depth error compared to its predecessor, reducing RMSE from 0.132 to 0.062. Furthermore, it demonstrates particularly outstanding performance in traditional failure cases for conventional depth cameras, such as glass, mirrors, and transparent objects.
This breakthrough is driven by LingBot-Vision, a novel visual foundation model and the first in the industry to use "boundary structure" as a pre-training objective. With sub-pixel-level boundary localization and spatial structure understanding, LingBot-Vision provides the precise visual representations required for robust spatial perception.
Remarkably, the pre-training corpus for LingBot-Vision consists of only 160 million images, which is an order of magnitude smaller than that of DINOv3. Moreover, it brings highly stable object boundary determination capability, enabling continuous tracking of object boundaries within videos.
Beyond supporting LingBot-Depth 2.0, LingBot-Vision is a versatile foundation model capable of diverse downstream tasks.
Collaboration with Orbbec on Applications
For commercial applications, LingBot-Depth 2.0 has been professionally certified by the Depth Vision Laboratory of Orbbec, a leading provider of robotics and AI vision. Real-world testing using chip-level depth data from Orbbec’s Gemini 330 series stereo 3D cameras demonstrates significant improvements in edge clarity, object contour integrity, small object recognition, long-range depth estimation, and robustness in complex lighting and material conditions.
Moreover, within the product matrix of Orbbec's newly released Robot-Free Data Collection Hardware Platform, the RGB-D EGO device will integrate a customized LingBot-Depth model optimized for data collection. Moving forward, it will further integrate an advanced commercial version to continuously optimize missing depth completion, object edges, and spatial structures, delivering a precise, stable, and highly usable real-world data foundation for embodied AI training.
In collaboration with Robbyant, Orbbec will launch new products integrating LingBot-Depth 2.0:
Additionally, Robbyant has open-sourced the model weights of LingBot-Vision. The company remains committed to building the robotic vision foundation together with industry partners, resolving the critical bottlenecks of "seeing, seeing accurately, and seeing stably" in the real physical world, and accelerating the commercial deployment of embodied intelligence.
For more information about LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision, please visit:
GitHub: https://github.com/Robbyant/lingbot-vision
Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/robbyant/lingbot-vision
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
Comparison of object boundary and spatial structure recognition across major models. LingBot-Vision demonstrates superior clarity and stability.
LingBot-Depth 2.0 leads in real-world sensor depth completion benchmarks.
LingBot-Depth 2.0 reconstructs complete and planar 3D structures in challenging scenarios involving mirrors and glass
SEATTLE (AP) — Shortly after Romelu Lukaku scored the goal that capped a commanding 4-1 win over the United States, Belgium's all-time leading goal scorer held his right hand to his ear.
On American soil, and in the aftermath of star U.S. forward Folarin Balogun being permitted to play after a one-game red-card suspension was controversially lifted by FIFA, Lukaku egged on the crowd of 66,925 at Lumen Field. The Red Devils then took to social media to poke more fun in light of what they considered no laughing matter, posting above the photo the words: “Overturn this.”
“There’s always a justice somewhere in life,” Belgian midfielder Nicolas Raskin said. “The fact that something happened like that, we don’t think that was fair. And today, I think it just brings us a little bit of (motivation) that we needed to win the game.”
The Belgian soccer federation wanted an explanation from FIFA about the decision to let Balogun play. Many of Belgium’s players, though, insisted they didn’t need any additional motivation for Monday’s match.
Belgium extended its unbeaten streak to 18 games, and knocked out the U.S. in the round of 16 for the second time in 12 years.
American players including defender Alex Freeman entered the evening wanting revenge for 2014, and for a 5-2 blowout loss in a World Cup warmup match in March. Belgium captain Youri Tielemans and company had other ideas, and collectively turned in a clinical performance.
“We put in a lot of intensity, there was quality too,” Tielemans said. “Defensively, we were really compact. We tried to put them under pressure and it really worked out for us. We scored at the right moments, too.”
Though Lukaku put the finishing touches on the win, it was not Belgium’s so-called “Golden Generation” that propelled the side to victory. Jérémy Doku didn't start for the Red Devils, and Kevin De Bruyne never came off the bench.
Rather than Lukaku or De Bruyne, the two most accomplished scorers in Belgian national team history, it was Charles De Ketelaere who tallied a brace. De Ketelaere considered the showing his greatest yet for the Red Devils, whose four goals were the most the U.S. had allowed in a World Cup game since a 5-1 loss to Czechoslovakia in 1990.
“It’s a great feeling to put out this performance in this game and to go through,” De Ketelaere said. “It’s amazing for the team and for the country.”
Hans Vanaken also scored for Belgium, which went quite close to not advancing to the round of 16 in the first place. To even play the U.S. required a dramatic comeback from a two-goal deficit to beat Senegal in the round of 32.
The Red Devils were shaky at the beginning of the tournament, settling for draws against Iran and Egypt. If not for a dominant 5-1 win over New Zealand, Belgium may have failed to get out of the group stage, just as it came up short four years ago in Qatar.
“I think we could (have done) much better in the group phase,” midfielder Dodi Lukébakio said. “But, we grew. Today, we are showing that we have more confidence. And with the results, it helps us a lot. And, we are showing our quality, definitely.”
The Red Devils next play 2010 champion Spain on Friday at Inglewood, California, for a semifinal berth against France or Morocco.
They will do so without midfielder Amadou Onana, who coach Rudi Garcia said sustained a “serious injury” while marking U.S. forward Christian Pulisic in the 19th minute. Vanaken replaced Onana in the 21st minute.
Aside from Onana’s injury, which Garcia referred to as a “dark cloud” that hung over the team, it was Belgium’s night. Considering the build-up to the game, which included President Donald Trump calling FIFA president Gianni Infantino seeking a review of Balogun’s red card, it made the victory that much sweeter.
“Our job was to show on the pitch that we are here for football,” Tielemans said. “That decision was out of our hands, and we just had to talk on the field. And, we did that today.”
Veteran goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois apparently wasn't upset by the pre-match drama.
“I read things and I laughed,” he said. “I was more sure of beating the USA than Senegal, because Senegal is a better soccer team than the United States”
See more of AP’s World Cup coverage here
Belgium's Youri Tielemans (8) reacts after Belgium won a World Cup round of 16 soccer match against the United States in Seattle, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Belgium's Dodi Lukebakio (14) battles for the ball with United States' Antonee Robinson (5) during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the United States and Belgium in Seattle, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
United States goalkeeper Matt Freese (24) and United States' Antonee Robinson (5) react after Belgium's Hans Vanaken (20) scored their third goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the United States and Belgium in Seattle, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Belgium's Charles De Ketelaere (17) celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the United States and Belgium in Seattle, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Maddy Grassy)
Belgium's Romelu Lukaku (9) celebrates after scoring his team's fourth goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the United States and Belgium in Seattle, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
