Shanghai Guoda Pharmacy

Ant Lingbo, Ant Group's embodied AI unit, signed an MOU with the Arab Federation for Digital Economy at a China-Arab matchmaking session during the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo. The partners will establish a standing cooperation mechanism to deploy embodied AI and full-stack robot solutions in the UAE, GCC and wider Middle East, covering hospitality, retail, logistics, industrial operations, smart city and healthcare, with Arabic-language localization and ecosystem collaboration. Contract value, unit volume and deployment timeline were not disclosed.

Ant Lingbo (蚂蚁灵波) showed its LingBot-VLA 2.0 embodied general brain at the 2026 Bund Conference. The company says the same brain can drive robots from Leju Robotics and TiHu Robotics, among others, with pretraining already adapted to 17 robot brands and 20 configurations, covering single-arm, dual-arm, bipedal and wheeled bodies.

A deployment with Shanghai Guoda Pharmacy is live, Ant Lingbo says: robots take orders and pick medicines autonomously in aisles about 80 cm wide despite transparent, reflective packaging, and assist pharmacists with sorting at night, with no store renovation. Ant Lingbo also opened an embodied large-model challenge with ModelScope and Alibaba Cloud Tianchi.