SMRTR Science & EngineeringJun 17, 2026Interesting Engineering

China’s Alibaba unveils AI brains designed to power the next generation of robots

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Alibaba launched Qwen-Robot, an AI model suite that connects language understanding with real-world robotic actions like navigating rooms, grasping objects, and predicting environmental changes. The move puts Alibaba alongside Google DeepMind and Nvidia in the fast-growing race to build AI systems that can physically interact with the world.

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