2026 World Robot Conference Highlights Diverging Paths in Embodied Intelligence: Scenarios, Data, and Form Factor Debates

At WRC 2026, more than 300 companies in the embodied intelligence supply chain exhibited, with clear disagreements emerging across deployment scenarios, data training approaches, and robot body form factors. On scenarios, Leju and Dobot are targeting industrial and logistics warehouse settings, while Moqi argues for first entering unstructured settings such as the home to accumulate data. On data approaches, Galaxea uses almost entirely real-world data and is advancing a 1 million-hour real-data plan, while Galbot sticks with a Sim2Real simulation-based generalization approach.