Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (Leiphone · Nov 9, 2026)

Ant Lingbo embodied AI challenge names 15 finalists for 48-hour real-robot finals

KEY FACTS

The finalist list for the first Ant Lingbo Embodied Large Model Challenge has been announced, with 15 teams and 59 contestants advancing.
The preliminary round drew 1,855 teams from 648 universities, enterprises and other institutions across 13 countries worldwide.
GPU allocation for the preliminary round rose from 200 to 350 cards, providing over 340,000 card-hours of compute across the two stages.
The finals will be held November 14-15 in Shanghai Zhangjiang, with contestants using AgileX COBOT MAGIC devices.
The finals are built on the open-source LingBot-VLA 2.0 model, covering the full pipeline from data collection to real-robot deployment.

KEY DATA

15Finalist teams

59Finalist contestants

1,855Preliminary round teams

350Preliminary round GPUs

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Embodied AI competitions have shifted from paper benchmark scores to real-robot generalization contests, and the 48-hour hackathon directly tests engineering deployment capability. Ant Lingbo is gathering talent through an open-source model plus developer ecosystem, but whether it can turn event buzz into reusable robot capabilities still depends on the actual investment behind its post-event ecosystem plans.

Source: Leiphone report