AgiBot has set a Guinness World Record for the most humanoid robots dancing at the same time, putting 110 full-size Expedition A3 robots through a synchronized routine at the Yellow River International Convention and Exhibition Center in Jinan on October 24. A Guinness adjudicator confirmed the count of 110 on site, according to IT Home and Science and Technology Daily.
The routine is less interesting than what it took to run it. According to Science and Technology Daily, the record's core standard was not how well the robots danced but whether a fleet of more than 100 units could finish without a single error. The robots completed several sets of complex moves over 5 minutes and 43 seconds, switching between synchronized motion and changing formations. AgiBot says all 110 were standard production units.
Wang Chuang, an AgiBot partner and senior vice president, said coordinating 100 robots is not simple motion copying but a full scheduling stack covering real-time position sensing, distributed decision-making and dynamic obstacle avoidance. The robots walked out of their shipping boxes, calibrated their own positions and ran the routine without engineers steering them one by one by remote control.
The coordination ran on LinkBots, AgiBot's in-house multi-robot scheduling system. Wang summed up three capabilities. First, formation changes are computed from each robot's live state rather than replayed from stored motions. Second, ultra-wideband positioning accurate to under 10 centimeters lets robots navigate, walk and run in coordination while the system tracks their relative positions. Third, separate groups can receive different instructions, with orchestration designed to stop robots interfering with one another. IT Home reported that the system can compensate locally if a single unit drops out.
Wang said getting these three things right is the technical line between humanoids as demonstration pieces and humanoids as productive tools.
AgiBot says the robots are already moving into real work. Units are being trialed at Jinan subway stations including Olympic Sports Center and Zhuanshan West Road, offering directions, crowd-flow assistance, safety patrols and cultural guidance. The company says the robots from the record attempt will be deployed in tourism performances, public services, exhibition halls and education.
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