ACE ROBOTICS Launches Kairos 3.1 World Model and Commercial Solutions

ACE ROBOTICS has unveiled Kairos 3.1, its latest action-oriented world model, alongside Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 and three commercial solutions for instant retail, hospitality, and outdoor service scenarios. The launch occurred at a forum during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, focusing on advancing physical AI from understanding to execution. The event also introduced PHYSICAL IQ, a unified benchmark for embodied physical intelligence, initiated by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Association, the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, and the East China branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, with support from over 20 universities and partners. Nobel laureate Thomas J. Sargent discussed limitations of current AI in rare situations.

Kairos 3.1 is a natively unified model integrating generative, physical, and cognitive intelligence within a single architecture. It uses a hybrid Transformer with a shared mixed-attention mechanism to unify visual, language, force, tactile, and policy data into a latent space, enabling an 'understand, reason, execute, and reflect' loop. The model can break down long-horizon tasks, simulate physics, rank actions, and adjust based on outcomes. Its ACE-BRAIN-0.5 core achieved state-of-the-art results across 12 public evaluations. In a laundry scenario, a robot can divide tasks into steps and recover from failures without restarting. Kairos 3.1 also supports self-reflective iteration, like switching grasp types after failure. The model achieves 125ms inference latency on NVIDIA Jetson Thor.

ACE ROBOTICS introduced the 'Information-Density Law' for embodied data, classifying data from L1 to L5. Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 captures high-density physical-interaction data via ACE Ego Kit, a wireless wearable with ACE Sense Glove (0.01N sensitivity, <2° joint error). ACE Data Engine automates annotation, and ACE-ViDiHand leads in 4D hand motion capture. ACE Ego Matrix standardizes embodied data across systems and is open-sourced. The company also released ACE-Data-0, an L5 household dataset. Three commercial solutions were announced: Xiaoman for instant retail with the W1 robot (robot-to-payload ratio <2:1, force precision within 1N, 75cm aisle width), deployed with Sense MartGo, Kuaikeda, and PetroChina; Xiaoxin for hotel laundry operations handling night-shift tasks; and Xiaotu for complex outdoor environments using a 'one brain, many bodies' architecture on quadruped robots. ACE ROBOTICS plans to deploy Xiaoman across 1,000 retail locations in a year. The company also announced partnerships with Caohejing Development Zone, PetroChina, Kuaikeda, SenseTime Shanhui, and cloud providers including Baidu AI Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and SenseCore AI Cloud to build an open embodied AI ecosystem.