{"id":139006,"date":"2025-09-13T01:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139006\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:07:16","slug":"ant-group-targets-teslas-optimus-and-shows-off-first-humanoid-robot-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139006\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant Group targets Tesla\u2019s Optimus and shows off first humanoid robot R1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese tech behemoth Ant Group, which owns payment platform Alipay, has been showing off its first humanoid robot at tech conferences this month. It joins a growing wave of companies carving out space along a fresh frontier in automation by combining artificial intelligence with physical tech.<\/p>\n

Videos and news reports show Robbyant\u2019s R1 robot cooking for audiences at the IFA 2025 tech show in Berlin last week. What was on the menu? Shrimp, reportedly<\/a>. The company, an arm of Jack Ma-backed Ant Group, has also been parading the human-shaped bot at the 2025 Inclusion Conference this week in Shanghai, according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Helping out in the kitchen is the first of many potential use cases for R1, Robbyant says<\/a>. The company, also known as Shanghai Ant Lingbo Technology Co., says the bot could be used as a companion or caregiver robot in healthcare, or as a robotic tour guide in the travel industry.<\/p>\n

The company has not announced a launch date or price point for the bot and is reportedly testing it in community centers and restaurants. It would be wise to view claims of R1\u2019s performance skeptically until the bot can be seen acting on its own in the real world, though this video from IFA doesn\u2019t set expectations too high, as R1 places a box on a counter at a pace so glacial it makes a sloth seem speedy:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese tech behemoth Ant Group, which owns payment platform Alipay, has been showing off its first humanoid robot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,44,3146,1996,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-139006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-robot","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}