Why This Robotics Company Has Become the Standard Hardware for Global AI Giants?

The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) has just concluded. This technology feast, which gathered 827 AI companies from around the world, showcased cutting-edge technological achievements while also presenting a noteworthy phenomenon:In the field of embodied intelligence, the presence of the same company frequently appeared at the booths of several star enterprises.—— Ark Infinite.

Companies like Pi, Qianxun Intelligent, Self-variable Robotics, and Mechamand, which are leaders in the field of embodied intelligence, have chosen Ark Infinite’s robotic arms as the core hardware for their technical demonstrations. What industry logic lies behind this phenomenon? Why has Ark Infinite’s robotic arm frequently appeared, becoming the “water seller” that supports the implementation of embodied intelligence technology?

▍WAIC 2025: Star Companies Choose the Same “Standard Hardware”, Algorithm Strength Becomes the Core Competitive Focus

At the “Intelligent Initiation Forum” of WAIC 2025, Sergey Levine, co-founder of Physical Intelligence (Pi), focused on the foundational models of robotics, revealing how they assist machines in mastering complex operations autonomously. Ark Infinite, as a core partner in the evolution of Pi’s technology, has been involved throughout its multiple model iterations.

From the experimental video of the π0 model released by Pi in October 2024, the robot successfully executed complex tasks such as folding clothes and cleaning tables, demonstrating high operational precision. By the time of the HiRobot model system, it quickly responded to system commands to efficiently execute actions in multi-step training such as making sandwiches and sorting shelf items. In the demonstration of the π0.5 model released by Pi in May this year, the platform equipped with this model executed complex instruction sequences for the first time in completely unfamiliar kitchen and bedroom environments. Ark Infinite’s products have deeply penetrated Pi’s technological iteration path, becoming an important force in driving its technological development.

At the intelligent terminal and industry application halls of the WAIC 2025 exhibition, the competition of technical strength ultimately focused on the actual operational capabilities of robots, and Ark Infinite’s robotic arms became the “standard weapon” for many leading companies to showcase their technical strength.

Positioned as the “Chinese version of FigureAI”, the Qianxun Intelligent booth showcased a home service show with a robotic arm equipped with the Spirit v1 VLA model: accurately identifying clothing wrinkles, dynamically adjusting the grasping angle, and quickly folding scattered clothes into “tofu blocks”, even completing multi-task continuous operations despite human interference.

The leading company in embodied intelligence, Self-variable Robotics, showcased a service robot “Xiaoliang” based on its self-developed large model WALL-A, mastering the entire process of making scented sachets within days: selecting fragrance bags based on voice commands, sticking badges, and delivering materials with hand movements, even autonomously connecting for restocking when materials run out.

The global embodied intelligence “unicorn” Mechamand focused on long-sequence flexible tasks, with dual-arm robots autonomously completing the entire process of “picking clothes – identifying – folding – classifying – placing”. When faced with soft objects like T-shirts that are prone to deformation, the dual arms achieved millimeter-level precision in coordination, demonstrating human-like reasoning capabilities.

▍Scientific Endorsement: The Common Choice of Top Global Laboratories, Key Support Position Recognized by the Industry

If the widespread application on the enterprise side reflects the practical value of Ark Infinite’s products, then the continuous favor from top global AI laboratories confirms the foresight of its technological route.In the field of embodied intelligence research, Ark Infinite’s product matrix has become a key support for many groundbreaking achievements.

Stanford University’s UMI-on-Legs system uses Ark Infinite products for its robotic arm components.The UMI-on-Legs system achieves autonomous navigation and operation of quadruped robots in dynamic environments by integrating visual-language-action models. Its open-source nature has attracted hundreds of research teams worldwide to participate in development, while the stable performance and open interfaces of Ark Infinite’s robotic arms have become the hardware foundation for this cutting-edge research.

Additionally, the Vidar model jointly released by Tsinghua University and Shenshu Technology, as a significant breakthrough in the field of embodied intelligence based on the video large model Vidu, also selected Ark Infinite’s robotic arms.

Vidar is the world’s first multi-view embodied base model that achieves the systematic transfer of video understanding capabilities to physical decision-making based on a general video large model. It has made breakthroughs in two major areas: multi-modal perception fusion and dynamic environment modeling: by integrating visual, depth, audio, and other multi-modal data through a unified architecture, it achieves efficient cross-modal collaboration, significantly enhancing the adaptability of agents in complex scenarios (such as occlusion and lighting changes); its self-supervised learning framework reduces reliance on manual labeling, enhancing generalization performance.

▍Decoding Strength: Remarkable Technical Explosiveness, Demand-Driven Product Matrix Constructs Technical Moat

Ark Infinite has woven a dual ecological network covering technology research and development, scene verification, and resource linkage between commercial landing on the enterprise side and technical exploration on the research side, becoming the “water seller” in the embodied intelligence industry.

However, how can this startup, which lacks the halo of a star team and the strong resource tilt of investors, rapidly rise in a fiercely competitive track while winning the trust of enterprises for landing and deep recognition from the research community? Behind this is Ark Infinite’s astonishing technical explosiveness, a product matrix covering the entire chain of data collection, algorithm training, and practical verification, as well as a hardware development concept driven by technical demand.

In 2023 alone, Ark Infinite launched the industry’s first planetary lightweight robotic arm, the X5.The X5 quickly gained widespread attention in the industry due to its innovative design and outstanding performance. After two years of deep cultivation, Ark Infinite has built a diversified product matrix covering multiple series such as X5, R5, X7s, and LIFT, precisely addressing the technical needs of different application scenarios.

In the field of small and medium-sized robotic arms, Ark Infinite’s R5 and X5 series, with their unique 6-degree-of-freedom configuration design, have constructed a highly differentiated product matrix. This core configuration not only provides a flexible and stable mathematical foundation for the motion calculation of robotic arms but also reduces the difficulty of debugging in practical operations, making precise control and efficient application possible.

With the core goal of optimizing and upgrading customer experience, Ark Infinite has also comprehensively innovated in wheel group performance, computing platform architecture, and human-machine interaction methods,heavily launching the LIFT2 mobile dual-arm platform. As the world’s first omnidirectional lifting dual-arm platform, the hardware architecture of LIFT2 precisely matches the multi-modal data joint learning requirements, greatly optimizing customer experience.

▍Conclusion

Amidst the tumultuous waves of the robotics and embodied intelligence track, “invisible builders” represented by Ark Infinite are quietly reshaping the underlying logic of the industry.

With the precise positioning of the “water seller” and relying on high cost-performance hardware verified by massive scenarios, hardware platform companies like Ark Infinite have successfully allowed research institutions and industry to escape the inefficient internal friction of reinventing the wheel, focusing on core breakthroughs in algorithm innovation and scene implementation. This quiet “hardware infrastructure revolution” is gradually becoming a key fulcrum driving technological leaps and industrial explosions.

From top universities and global authoritative laboratories such as Stanford University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Beihang University, to leading companies in the field of embodied intelligence like Pi, Qianxun Intelligent, Self-variable, and Mechamand, Ark Infinite uses hardware as a “super interface” to directly address two major industry pain points: the difficulty of validating cutting-edge algorithms in universities due to hardware limitations and the slow iteration and upgrade of enterprise scene demands due to a lack of stable hardware foundations. By building a “highway” for technology transformation, Ark Infinite is injecting continuous momentum into industry development!

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