{"slug": "alibaba-unit-says-5-in-1-ai-gives-robots-unified-brain-body-and-limbs", "title": "Alibaba unit says 5-in-1 AI gives robots unified brain, body and limbs", "summary": "Alibaba Group Holding's mapping unit Amap unveiled an upgrade to its ABot framework, which it calls the world's first technology framework uniting a robot's feet, hands, brain, central nerves and motor nerves into a single system using five specialized foundation AI models. The framework addresses the industry's lack of a complete, self-evolving system, with the ABot-N1 model achieving a 92.9% outdoor autonomous navigation success rate using standard cameras and basic road networks.", "body_md": "# Alibaba unit says 5-in-1 AI gives robots unified brain, body and limbs\n\nABot framework addresses industry’s lack of a complete, self-evolving system to improve robot capabilities, according to Amap\n\n[Ann Cao](/author/ann-cao)in Shanghai\n\nAlibaba Group Holding’s mapping unit has unveiled an upgrade to what it calls the world’s first technology framework that unites a robot’s “feet, hands, brains, central nerves and motor nerves” into a single system.\n\n[artificial intelligence](https://www.scmp.com/topics/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&pgtype=article)models to make robots more capable. Referred to as embodied intelligence, the effort aims to equip machines with the “brains” and other elements required to navigate and complete tasks in complex physical spaces.\n\nWith five new specialised foundation AI models working together, ABot aimed to address a systemic problem in the industry, according to Amap: the lack of a complete, self-evolving system.\n\n“The industry has long focused on breakthroughs in single models – better navigation models, more powerful operation models and smarter reasoning models – but these models operate independently without shared data and experience,” it said in a social media post on Wednesday.\n\nWith its five models – ABot-N1, ABot-M0.5, ABot-ER, ABot-AgentOS, and ABot-C0 – working in concert, the Amap system sought to shatter those silos, according to the firm.\n\nThe ABot-N1 model employed an “eyes guiding feet” approach, enabling a robot to handle city-scale autonomous navigation with a 92.9 per cent outdoor success rate using only standard cameras and basic road networks, Amap said on Wednesday, adding that this bypassed the need for costly high-definition maps.\n\nMeanwhile, ABot-M0.5 allowed a machine to “use hands and feet simultaneously”, divorcing movement functions from manipulation tasks so a robot could seamlessly grasp objects while walking, the company said.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unit-says-5-in-1-ai-gives-robots-unified-brain-body-and-limbs", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3361564/alibaba-unit-says-5-1-ai-gives-robots-unified-brain-body-and-limbs?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-07-23 08:00:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 08:07:37.948440+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "robotics", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Alibaba Group Holding", "Amap", "ABot", "ABot-N1", "ABot-M0.5", "ABot-ER", "ABot-AgentOS", "ABot-C0"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unit-says-5-in-1-ai-gives-robots-unified-brain-body-and-limbs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unit-says-5-in-1-ai-gives-robots-unified-brain-body-and-limbs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unit-says-5-in-1-ai-gives-robots-unified-brain-body-and-limbs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unit-says-5-in-1-ai-gives-robots-unified-brain-body-and-limbs.jsonld"}}