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Six AgiBot G2 humanoid robots worked a 24 hour shift in a Shanghai convenience store that stayed open to paying customers, and the company counted 1,730 tasks completed by the end.

Six AGIBOT G2 humanoid robots ran a working convenience store in Shanghai's Xuhui district for 24 continuous hours, and the shop stayed open to paying customers throughout. The Chinese maker, known at home as 智元机器人, streamed the shift live under the title Robots Never Clock Out. Its machines held the jobs that face customers, greeting at the door, restocking shelves, brewing coffee, serving hot food, and wiping tables.

Baidu has launched Apollo World, a model that simulates road environments for training robotaxis, and says it can produce up to 100,000 km of simulated driving every day, roughly three years of real world testing by a car with a safety driver on board.