"Since the company was founded in 2023, we have accumulated 100,000 hours of data. By next year, that will surpass 1.5 million hours."
An Agibot official who met with the Seoul Economic Daily at the company's Shanghai headquarters on the 18th of last month said, "We will significantly expand our data collection scale to more firmly support the mass production system for humanoid robots." He explained, "For a robot to perform tasks delicately and accurately, it needs to accumulate at least 1,000 data points for each finely segmented motion," adding, "Real-world data is the key factor that determines success or failure in the robot market."
Agibot is the company ramping up mass production speed the fastest in the global humanoid robot industry. Last year, it became the first in the world to surpass 5,000 humanoid robot shipments. This year, the figure is projected to exceed 10,000 units.
In particular, the company plans to increase the volume of high-quality data by more than 10-fold year-on-year. While the target may appear ambitious, Agibot internally sees it as entirely achievable. Each robot collects roughly 8 to 10 hours of raw data per day, of which 2.5 to 3 hours of high-quality data remain after refinement. Based on this, a single robot can secure approximately 800 hours of high-quality data per year. If more than 1,000 robots are deployed daily, annual data accumulation on the order of one million hours becomes possible.
To realize this goal, Agibot broke ground on a second data center last year following its existing three-story warehouse-style data collection center and completed it in January this year. The entire 12-story building is being used as a humanoid robot training facility, and construction of a third center has already begun. The existing training center houses around 871 humanoid robots, but as center expansions ramp up, the number of robots deployed for data collection is expected to grow to the thousands.
