Six G2 humanoid robots from AgiBot worked for 24 consecutive hours in a real convenience store in Shanghai's Xuhui district, while the online livestream drew more than two million viewers. The challenge, called "Robots Never Clock Out", started on November 2 at 10:00 and ended on November 3 at the same time.
The robots took on different roles: greeting customers, barista work, restocking shelves and cleaning tables. Each had a name badge with its assigned duty. According to the livestream, the work was split into four periods: the lunch rush, the evening peak, a night shift with a single robot on duty and the morning breakfast rush.
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Two guests invited by the company also tested the robots with tricky requests, including telling apart a sugared and a sugar-free cola that look nearly identical, tidying a jumbled shelf of chewing gum and getting around a person standing in the aisle. According to reports, the robots checked voice commands visually before acting, reshelved products by recognising each position and stopped before passing people.
AgiBot said the robots completed 1,730 tasks over the day. Ren Guanghui, vice president of the company's embodied intelligence research centre, said the aim was not to test a single skill but to check whether the system can keep going after disruptions and whether its experience can be reused in later work.
The experiment is tied to the October 27 launch of Genie Master, software that lets robots find the cause of a failure, adjust their approach and store the lesson without an operator repeating the demonstration. The company says the livestream was meant to test this mechanism in a real commercial setting. Its press material indicates GO-3 Preview and Genie Master are expected to be released as open source by the end of 2026.
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According to AgiBot's published specifications, the G2 is a wheeled humanoid with two seven-degree-of-freedom arms rated at 5 kg each. It is described as capable of continuous operation thanks to a dual-battery system with hot-swap replacement.
The open question is how the model holds up in everyday retail: the company's figures show a high volume of operations, but they do not establish how many were completed without any human intervention.
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