{"slug": "alibaba-unveils-qwen-robot-series-with-three-foundation-models-for-embodied-ai", "title": "Alibaba unveils Qwen-Robot series with three foundation models for embodied AI", "summary": "Alibaba's Qwen team released a robotics suite with three foundation models for embodied AI: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. The models align language with physical actions for navigation, manipulation, and world modeling, aiming to unify diverse embodied AI tasks.", "body_md": "The Qwen team on Tuesday released a robotics suite featuring three foundation models: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. These three models align language with different types of physical actions.\n\nQwen-RobotNav extends vision-language capabilities into mobile robotics through controllable observation encoding and tool-based interfaces. The model unifies four key tasks within a single framework: instruction following, goal-directed navigation, target tracking, and autonomous driving.\n\nQwen-RobotManip standardizes the state-action space and represents end-effector motion as incremental poses in the camera coordinate system. Trained on more than 38,100 hours of fully open-source data, the model supports large-scale learning across multiple robot platforms, enabling a broad range of manipulation capabilities.\n\nMeanwhile, Qwen-RobotWorld serves as a general-purpose world model that connects vision-language understanding with future-state prediction through a natural-language action interface. The model can forecast physically consistent future outcomes across navigation, driving, and manipulation scenarios, allowing a single world model to generalize across diverse embodied AI tasks. [TechNode Reporting]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unveils-qwen-robot-series-with-three-foundation-models-for-embodied-ai", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/06/17/alibaba-unveils-qwen-robot-series-with-three-foundation-models-for-embodied-ai/", "published_at": "2026-06-17 03:48:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 07:23:09.863696+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "robotics", "ai-products", "ai-research", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen-RobotNav", "Qwen-RobotManip", "Qwen-RobotWorld", "TechNode"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unveils-qwen-robot-series-with-three-foundation-models-for-embodied-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unveils-qwen-robot-series-with-three-foundation-models-for-embodied-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unveils-qwen-robot-series-with-three-foundation-models-for-embodied-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-unveils-qwen-robot-series-with-three-foundation-models-for-embodied-ai.jsonld"}}