{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-09-agibot-go-2/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-09-agibot-go-2/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-04-09-agibot-go-2","date":"2026-04-09","date_precision":"day","short_title":"AgiBot releases GO-2 embodied foundation model with action chain-of-thought","deck":null,"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.","category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"AgiBot: The Unity of Reasoning and Action — Genie Operator-2","url":"https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/56.html","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"agibot.com"},{"n":2,"title":"The Robot Report: AGIBOT releases GO-2","url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/agibot-releases-go-2-foundation-model-embodied-ai/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"therobotreport.com"},{"n":3,"title":"YouTube (AGIBOT): AGIBOT Unveils Genie Operator-2 (GO-2)","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBShRfGINI","type":"video","group":"reactions","domain":"youtube.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["AgiBot"],"title":"AgiBot releases GO-2 embodied foundation model with action chain-of-thought","summary":"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.","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)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["foundation-model","vla","china","humanoid"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nAgiBot, 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.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nChinese humanoid makers are building their own robot foundation models, not just hardware.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-09-10-unitree-unifolm-wla-1-0","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-unitree-unifolm-wla-1-0/","date":"2026-09-10","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Unitree open-sources UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 humanoid foundation model","deck":null,"takeaway":"The world's highest-volume humanoid maker now ships an openly licensed foundation model for its own robots, lowering the barrier for G1 developers.","category":"open-source","category_label":"Open source","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":4,"official":3,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Unitree Robotics"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[{"id":"agibot-genie-operator-2","title":"AGIBOT Unveils Genie Operator-2 (GO-2): Next-Gen Embodied Foundation Model","url":"https://postcutoff.com/v/agibot-genie-operator-2/"}],"models":[{"id":"agibot-go-2","name":"AgiBot GO-2 (Genie Operator-2)","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/agibot-go-2/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":9,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}