At a glance
On September 28, 2026, AGIBOT said it had deployed 100 X2 humanoids across 100 Chinese retail stores with ASD. The company announcement provides no independent results on sales, reliability or task performance.
AGIBOT and ASD report X2 deployment across 100 stores
On September 28, 2026, AGIBOT announced a partnership with cookware and kitchenware company ASD and said it had deployed 100 of its X2 humanoid robots across 100 retail stores in China. AGIBOT’s announcement described each X2 as a customer-facing in-store sales assistant, making the 100-store rollout the central claim, not evidence that robots have displaced employees. The company said a three-day livestream covered stores in Wenling, Shanghai and Wuxi from September 28 through 30, 2026.
AGIBOT said each livestream ran for ten consecutive hours, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; those details describe an extended public demonstration, but do not establish performance beyond the streamed sessions. The announcement also said X2 units work alongside store staff in settings including flagship stores, hypermarkets, community events and retail service hubs, placing human-robot coordination inside the company’s stated deployment model.
The X2’s stated role spans product advice and staff handoffs
AGIBOT listed tasks that begin with greeting shoppers and asking what they need, then extend to product explanations, cookware recommendations and guiding customers through the store, mapping onto a familiar assisted-shopping interaction. The company said X2 can factor household size, cooking habits and budget into its recommendations, giving the robot a role in narrowing choices rather than merely displaying product information.
For mobility and communication, the release describes X2 as using multimodal interaction to navigate stores, communicate with shoppers and provide product information; it supplies no technical architecture or measured recognition results. AGIBOT says that when questions concern promotions, inventory or purchases, the robot uses a staff handoff, making escalation part of the stated service rather than claiming an end-to-end transaction.
Editorial Analysis: What APAC retailers should measure
For APAC retailers, the practical significance is the choice of test: a robot is being placed in a staffed sales journey where customer approach, needs discovery, recommendations and escalation can be examined together. AGIBOT’s announcement says it has deployed X2 robots to work alongside store employees. That is a more operationally useful lens than treating a humanoid appearance or livestream as proof of commercial value; the key question is whether the machine reduces friction without adding work for staff.
Operators evaluating similar deployments should ask for store-by-store measures: eligible interactions, successful needs capture, recommendation acceptance, handoff frequency, queue impact and staff time spent correcting or completing robot exchanges. They should also test whether results hold across store formats and customer groups, and whether language coverage, accessibility, privacy practices and safety procedures fit local requirements, rather than assuming that a China configuration transfers unchanged across APAC.
What the announcement does not establish
The announcement is an AGIBOT company account, not an independent evaluation; it reports a deployment plan and company-described functions, while offering no third-party assessment or measured sales, reliability or task-performance results. The release gives livestream dates and hours, but a three-day broadcast cannot by itself establish sustained availability, autonomous operation or consistent behavior during ordinary retail conditions.
Before judging the rollout, readers should verify which stores actually began operation, how many hours robots were active outside the broadcast, and how often employees took over or corrected interactions. Useful evidence would also compare a defined baseline with post-deployment customer outcomes and staff workload, while separating stated capability from observed completion; the announcement does not disclose those measures.
Sources and reporting notes
Based on an AGIBOT company announcement, not an independent media account. Deployment details and robot capabilities are company-reported; the announcement provides no independent assessment or measured performance results.
Original synthesis and analysis of the linked public reporting. AI-assisted drafting and translation; reported claims remain attributed to their sources.