SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 8, 2026--
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, today announced the upgrade and open-source release of LingBot-VLA 2.0. Building upon the foundation of LingBot-VLA 1.0 released in January 2026, this next-generation vision-language-action (VLA) model delivers significant leaps in morphological generalization, degrees of freedom (DoF) support, and deployment efficiency, delivering a more advanced “universal brain” for scalable real-world robotics.
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While the embodied AI industry is witnessing rapid advancements in hardware and control systems, the lack of a truly universal brain remains a primary bottleneck for industrial-scale deployment. LingBot-VLA 2.0 addresses this critical gap by dramatically expanding its pre-training data and architectural capabilities.
LingBot-VLA 2.0 was pre-trained on 60,000 hours of high-quality, real-world physical data. This massive dataset was curated from 50,000 hours of cleaned real-robot interaction data and 10,000 hours of distilled first-person human manipulation data.
Sourced from 20 distinct robot morphologies across 17 leading manufacturers—including Leju, AgiBot, Unitree, AgileX, Galaxea, Galbot, Astribot, RealMan, Franka, ARX, X-Humanoid, Fourier, MagicLab, Spirit AI, Zerith, Flexiv, and Qinglong—the data covers single-arm, dual-arm, bipedal, and wheeled configurations.
In terms of DoF support, LingBot-VLA 2.0 expands its operational capabilities to include head, waist, end-effectors (hands), and mobile chassis, enabling highly coordinated whole-body control.
In terms of dual-arm manipulation, on the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s GM-100 benchmark, LingBot-VLA 2.0 achieved leading average task progress scores and success rates on AgileX Cobot Magic and Galaxea R1 Pro platforms, outperforming both π0.5 and GR00T N1.7, which demonstrates LingBot-VLA 2.0’s superior cross-morphology generalization.
In long-horizon mobile manipulation tasks tested on the ARX Arm + AgileX Chassis and Astribot S1 platforms, LingBot-VLA 2.0 surpassed π0.5 in both task progress scores and success rates. Its robust performance in challenging cross-domain scenarios highlights its advanced capability in executing long-sequence tasks and generalizing mobile manipulation.
To address the high costs associated with post-training and deployment, LingBot-VLA 2.0 introduces a version optimized for highly efficient post-training, with latency being strictly maintained under 130 milliseconds on an RTX 4090. This significantly lowers the barrier for commercial deployment.
Robbyant is actively exploring the applications of LingBot-VLA 2.0 in real-world business scenarios. In collaboration with hardware partners like Leju and Ti5 Robot, and enterprise customers including GuoDa Drugstore and Longsheng Technology, the model is undergoing comprehensive commercial pilot testing in retail sorting, logistics, and industrial automation scenarios. Furthermore, Robbyant is partnering with companies including GenRobot.ai to build standardized data ecosystems.
LingBot-VLA 2.0 is fully open-sourced today. To learn more about Ling-VLA 2.0, please visit:
GitHub: https://github.com/Robbyant/lingbot-vla-v2
Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/robbyant/lingbot-vla-v2
Looking ahead, Robbyant will host a series of developer meetups and introduce specialized technical toolkits tailored for the developer community.
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
LingBot-VLA 2.0 supports a wide range of robot morphologies
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military attacked Iran early Wednesday after it said Tehran struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, part of an American effort that also revoked the Islamic Republic’s ability to openly sell crude oil in the world market. Iran retaliated with strikes targeting Bahrain and Kuwait.
The regional crossfire raised the risks that an interim agreement to halt fighting in the war could break down, putting the Middle East again at risk of a wider conflict.
The attacks on shipping and the resulting strikes came during the dayslong funeral for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed Feb. 28 in the war’s first moments at age 86. The funeral, which ends Thursday, had been thought to be a period of lower tensions — though mourners have repeatedly called for the killings of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Negotiations to reach a final deal had been due to start after Khamenei’s burial and focus on the toughest matters, including fully reopening the strait and rolling back Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. But the new attacks threw that into question.
“The era of bullying and extortion is over,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf wrote on X. “It leads nowhere. We don’t fold.”
The U.S. military’s Central Command said American forces launched the strikes “to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”
It said it hit Iranian targets including air defense systems, radars and over 60 small boats used by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Those boats have been key in harassing ships in the strait.
The U.S. military remains “postured and prepared to hold Iran accountable when the agreement is not adhered to or obeyed,” it added, saying this round of attacks had ended.
Iran acknowledged the strikes, but offered no word on any losses. Iranian state media reported the sound of explosions in Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and Sirik.
Wednesday morning, both Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, and Kuwait, home to U.S. Army forces, sounded missile alerts. The Guard issued a statement acknowledging targeting U.S. military installations in both countries.
“The child-killing and terrorist U.S. army ... openly violated the ceasefire and violated the Islamabad understanding by launching an airstrike on a number of coastal bases and civilian stations on the coasts of Hormozgan and Mahshahr provinces,” it said, without addressing the attacks on ships in the strait.
Bahrain sounded its alert a second time later Wednesday morning.
A similar spate of Iranian attacks on shipping and U.S. retaliatory strikes occurred late last month — which similarly drew Iranian attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait. Wednesday’s strikes also came as Trump was in Turkey for a summit of the NATO military alliance.
The U.S. also revoked a license that authorized the sale of Iranian oil as part of the interim deal. That had allowed Iran for the first time in years to conduct oil sales openly on the international market for U.S. dollars. Iran long had been suspected of selling sanctioned crude oil at below-market prices to China.
The decision came after the strikes on shipping. One tanker was traveling off the coast of Oman when it was hit and caught fire, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault.
The other two ships sustained some damage, but no one was injured, and both continued on their way in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.K. maritime agency said. Iran has maintained a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz since the war, disrupting global energy markets as a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the channel in peacetime. The ships attacked Tuesday all appeared to be using a route close to Oman’s shore, rather than one ordered by Tehran.
Tehran repeatedly has declared that only its approved route through the strait is safe and is suspected of attacking other ships that have used the Oman route.
Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, said the Qatari tanker Al Rekayyat was targeted in an “unacceptable attack” on international navigation and global energy security. He said Qatar holds Iran “fully legally responsible.”
Iran and the United States agreed as part of the interim deal to allow ships to pass without paying charges for 60 days. But Tehran insisted it must control the vessels’ routes and later charge fees for passage, which would upend decades of practice in the waterway.
The U.S. and many Gulf Arab states say they will not agree to Iran charging for passage through the strait.
Mourners surround a truck carrying the coffin of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a funeral procession in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A group of people stands in shallow water as a cargo ship appears anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
Posters of Khamenei are displayed along the main streets ahead of the funeral ceremony for Iran's former leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S.-Israeli attacks in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
A man holds a picture of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the eve of funeral ceremonies in Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday, July 7, 2026, as the dayslong funeral ceremonies continue in Iraq with events in the Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
In this photo released by Iran's Supreme Leader's office, mourners carry the coffin of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during funeral prayers held as part of the dayslong funeral ceremonies at the Holy Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
An Iraqi Shiite soldier chants on the eve of funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
