Li Shengbo

Guangxiang Technology and Tsinghua University's Li Shengbo research group have released Phi-WM 1.0 ActEffect, a first-generation world model for physical-native intelligence (Phi), and Phi-bot X1, an industrial self-evolving embodied AI robot aimed at automotive welding loading/unloading and mobile inspection. The robot has completed product validation and entered real-machine deployment on production lines at more than one luxury car plant. The company says deployment is over 10 times faster than traditional industrial automation, post-training real-machine data takes tens to dozens of hours and under 100 hours, and mobile inspection runs over 20% faster than existing line cadence without pre-installed physical infrastructure or fixed cameras.