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Models2026-06-17 · source-backed
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab shipped Qwen-RobotSuite on June 15: Qwen-RobotNav for navigation, Qwen-RobotManip for grasping and manipulation, and Qwen-RobotWorld, a world model predicting future physical states from observations plus natural-language actions. Already in enterprise pilots on Alibaba Cloud. This is Qwen's explicit move from chatbots into embodied AI, and it sharpens the China-US race in robotics foundation models.
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