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date: "2026-04-09"
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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# AgiBot releases GO-2 embodied foundation model with action chain-of-thought

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)

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): in its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 9 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [AgiBot: The Unity of Reasoning and Action — Genie Operator-2](https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/56.html) (agibot.com, official)
2. [The Robot Report: AGIBOT releases GO-2](https://www.therobotreport.com/agibot-releases-go-2-foundation-model-embodied-ai/) (therobotreport.com, press)
3. [YouTube (AGIBOT): AGIBOT Unveils Genie Operator-2 (GO-2)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBShRfGINI) (youtube.com, video)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-09-10: [Unitree open-sources UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 humanoid foundation model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-unitree-unifolm-wla-1-0/index.md)
- Models: [AgiBot GO-2 (Genie Operator-2)](https://postcutoff.com/m/agibot-go-2/) (`agibot-go-2`)
- Archived: 1 video, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-09-agibot-go-2/index.json