BEIJING (Reuters) - Ant Group, the Alibaba-linked fintech giant, is venturing into the humanoid robot industry, joining a growing list of major Chinese tech companies exploring this emerging field.

Ant Group, backed by Jack Ma, entered the humanoid robot race by unveiling its first model, the R1, at the 2025 Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai. Through its unit Robbyant, the Alibaba ...

Shanghai-based Ant Lingbo Technology, a subsidiary of Ant Group, has introduced its first humanoid robot, the R1, at the Inclusion Conference in Shanghai. The robot demonstrated its ability to guide ...

How a particle accelerator, a robot, high-speed cameras, and 2,000 ants came together to paint a picture of biological ...

Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. showcased its first humanoid robot on Thursday, formally joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies to compete with the US in commercialising frontier technology.

Ant Group unveiled its first humanoid robot at a trade show in Shanghai on Thursday, heralding the Chinese fintech company’s entry into the increasingly competitive field of embodied artificial ...

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Mimicking ants' hairy jaws could make robotic systems much more effective at picking objects up and moving them around. A prototype "hairy robotic gripper" has been developed by the University of ...

Scientists created a massive digital library of ants using synchrotron X-ray scanning, robotics, and artificial intelligence.