Six guests at WAIC Embodied AI Forum predict robots' ChatGPT moment is still two to five years away

At the 2026 WAIC Embodied AI Forum, six guests predicted that robots' ChatGPT moment is two to five years away, with Yao Maoqing saying two years and Xu Danfei saying five, though no consensus has formed on the criteria for judging it. The discussion focused on three main threads: the data flywheel must be built through real deployments rather than data collection alone; VLA and World Action Models (WAM) are not opposites, with PI continuing the VLA path through π0.7 while Dyna turns to WAM; full-stack capability is becoming a trend, but a full-stack business model is not necessarily the only answer.