In some jobs, they want to be replaced: Chinese robotics company Agibot says humanoids could take over dangerous jobs and one day even teach children

Date:
Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

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At Agibot's UK launch event, an executive for the Chinese company spoke on
its bold vision for the future of work.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A Chinese robotics firm has
said that some workers want to be replaced by its humanoid robots Agibot has launched its range of humanoid and quadruped robots in the UK B2B sector The company's Europe and US lead also said that robots could become nurses and teachers An executive for Chinese robotics firm Agibot has said the company believes its humanoid robots could replace certain human workers and that in some jobs, they want to be replaced.

Agibot, founded in 2023 by two ex-Huawei engineers, makes humanoid,
quadruped, and cleaning robots for the business-to-business (B2B) sector, advertising use cases like manufacturing, cleaning, entertainment, and construction.

The company recently rolled its 15,000th unit off the production line and announced its expansion into the UK market at an event in London on June 30. Latest Videos From Watch full video here: The Agibot A3 and several X2 units opened the company's UK launch event with a dance routine (Image credit:
Jamie Richards / Future) In a press conference at the event, attended by TechRadar, the president of AgiBot Europe and America, William Shi, told reporters that weve got to factor people doing dangerous, boring, and repeatable jobs these kinds of jobs can be very easily replaced. Shi added: For some job descriptions, they want to be replaced, because its very boring, very dangerous, and very high-risk nobody wants to do this [kind of job].
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purpose-built robots will How Samsara wants to help even the most traditional companies adopt AI Replaced by robotics The Agibot G2 has already seen deployment in factories in China (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) Agibot's product range includes the full-sized A3 humanoid robot, the half-sized X2 humanoid robot, and the D1 range of quadruped robots (with form factors resembling dogs, though the company never describes them as such).

Though the company has just landed in the UK, its robots have been successfully deployed in manufacturing facilities in China. A recent YouTube livestream shows the G2 industrial robot at work at the Longcheer electronics factory, where the humanoid robots are deployed alongside human employees.
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Speaking about Agibot's deployment with Longcheer, Shi said: They have a lot of workers standing for eight hours per day. They take a smartphone, turn it around, and put it in a box. And then they take the box and move to the next production phase.

These kinds of steps can be easily and are expected to be replaced by robotics, he continued, because that doesnt create value or create happiness for people. They dont learn when they do this job. They dont invent things.

At present, Agibot's products are not autonomous, but each is equipped with a three-part AI model, with each part controlling interaction (with people), locomotion (moving around), and manipulation (of the local environment i.e., picking stuff up), respectively. What to read next Alibaba reveals its most powerful AI models for robots as it looks to strike ahead in agentic race UBTech introduced its first realistic humanoid, which it could make into replicas of loved ones Gen Z workers are apparently deliberately sabotaging
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The company is actively aiming for autonomy, powered by the collection of usage data and further AI development, but Shi emphasizes that Agibot humanoids will remain under the control and expectation of the human. Robot child-rearing The Agibot X2 is clearly designed to be friendlier and more approachable than its full-size counterpart (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) As well as manufacturing, Shi highlighted baristas, live
entertainment workers, and even teachers and nurses as professions that could be occupied by robots: Theres a big lack of nurses in every country, from China, to America, to Europe, and also a big lack of teachers.

Most of childrens questions can be responded to [by robots] phonics,
science, and mathematics questions, or even some common conversations. You
ask for the weather, the humidity; you can ask these questions to all the robots, because theyre based on large language models.

Still, theres some distance between using ChatGPT to conduct research and allowing a humanoid robot to teach children and according to 2025 research
by KPMG and the University of Melbourne , while almost three quarters of UK adults use AI at work, less than half say they trust it.

With the B2C market a distant target for Agibot and an array of business partners including Nvidia , which provides chipsets for the robots backing the company's UK launch, it's clearly expecting to make big progress in B2B industries first and foremost. But Agibot isn't ruling out a future in which robots are part of our everyday lives.

What we want in the future is that the robot can take some responsibility in daily life, said Shi, but they will never make the decisions instead of a human. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to
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