ACE Robotics (大晓机器人) Timeline

Events

• 2026-10-19 - Research Publication - ACE Robotics releases ACE-Brain-0.6 spatial-grounding model - Supervised fine-tuning uses about one million spatial-grounding examples covering roughly 940,000 images and 2.7 million question-answer pairs. The company reports a 74.53 average across seven public benchmarks, compared with 73.68 for GPT-6 Astra, and… - source: ithome.com
• 2026-09-21 - Deployment - ACE Robotics begins live retail-fulfilment trial at PetroChina Shanghai store - Real Meituan orders flow through PetroChina’s digital platform to the robot for product identification, picking, transport and packing. The wheeled lifting robot operates in 75 cm aisles and reaches shelves up to 2 m high. The live workflow spans storage… - source: ithome.com
• 2026-07-19 - Product Launch - ACE Robotics unveils Kairos 3.1 and Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 - Kairos 3.1 unifies generative, physical and cognitive intelligence for task planning, action selection, execution and self-correction. Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 combines the ACE Ego Kit, Sense Glove, Data Engine and Ego Matrix for collecting and reusing… - source: streetinsider.com
• 2026-06-17 - Capability - ACE Robotics and CUHK MMLab open-source ACE-Ego embodied VLA model - ACE-Ego reached 72.8% average success on RoboCasa GR1 TableTop for humanoid robots. It reached 90.62% on RoboTwin 2.0 domain-randomization tests for dual-arm manipulation. Target tasks include retail sorting, order fulfillment, packing plastic bags and… - source: autonews.gasgoo.com
• 2026-06-15 - Funding - Daxiao Robotics completes Angel+ round for embodied-AI world-model work - Daxiao Robotics completed an Angel+ financing round backed by Geely Capital, Fortune Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, Shanghai Sci-Tech Fund and other investors. Funding coverage said the company had raised several hundred million dollars across H1 2026… - source: news.pedaily.cn
• 2026-06-15 - Funding - ACE Robotics completes Angel+ round for Kairos world model and embodied brain stack - The round includes investors such as Dachen, Shenzhen Capital, Shanghai S&T funds, Fosun RZ and other industrial backers. The proceeds support world models and integrated commercial solutions for scenarios including inspection, hotels, retail and logistics. - source: stcn.com
• 2026-06-15 - Research Publication - Kairos World Model - Open repository and Hugging Face organization provide Kairos world-model resources for embodied agents. Positions the model around multimodal understanding, generation, action prediction, and long-horizon robot reasoning. June 15 coverage highlights… - source: github.com
• 2026-03-03 - Research Publication - ACE Robotics publishes ACE-Brain-0 foundation model research - ACE Robotics published ACE-Brain-0, a spatial-intelligence foundation model for robotics, autonomous driving and UAV embodiments. The model used spatial reasoning as a shared scaffold across different physical systems. The research extended ACE Robotics'… - source: arxiv.org
• 2026-02-10 - Funding - ACE Robotics closes angel round led by Ant Group - ACE Robotics closed an angel round led by Ant Group, with participation from SenseTime and other investors. Coverage identified the company as an embodied-AI robotics startup also known as Daxiao Robotics. The funding preceded the company’s later H1 2026… - source: technode.com
• 2025-12-18 - Product Launch - ACE Robotics releases Kairos 3.0 world model and KaiWu developer platform - ACE Robotics released Kairos 3.0, an open-source world model for embodied intelligence. The company also introduced the KaiWu developer platform and A1 embodied super-brain module. The launch positioned ACE Robotics around the robot-brain layer for data… - source: eyeshenzhen.com