AgiBot releases GO-2 embodied foundation model with action chain-of-thought
Confirmed
The takeaway
Shanghai’s AgiBot released Genie Operator-2 (GO-2) on 2026-04-09, a VLA that plans in action space (action chain-of-thought) with an asynchronous slow-planner/fast-executor design; it reports 98.5% on LIBERO and 82.9% real-world success from simulation-only training.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen9 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It is after the cutoff of Gemini 4 Hydrogen, and can be in the training data of GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Grok 4.7.
Key facts
- Action chain-of-thought: macro-plan of action intents, then step-by-step execution
- Asynchronous dual system: low-frequency planner + high-frequency action follower
- LIBERO 98.5%; LIBERO-Plus 86.6% zero-shot; VLABench 47.4; sim-to-real 82.9%
- Core work accepted to CVPR 2026 and ACL 2026; no open weights announced (GO-1 was open, non-commercial)
What happened
AgiBot, one of China’s largest humanoid makers, followed its open GO-1 (March 2025) with GO-2, which tackles the gap between a model’s reasoning and its motor execution.
Why it matters
Chinese humanoid makers are building their own robot foundation models, not just hardware.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 1 primary, 1 press, 1 reaction
Primary
- AgiBot: The Unity of Reasoning and Action — Genie Operator-2agibot.com, official
Press
- The Robot Report: AGIBOT releases GO-2therobotreport.com, press
Reactions
- YouTube (AGIBOT): AGIBOT Unveils Genie Operator-2 (GO-2)youtube.com, video
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