China Telecom's AI research institute, TeleAI, has incubated its first market-oriented company, an embodied AI startup called Gamma Robotics. The company has registered in Shanghai's Xuhui district and is based at a large-model innovation hub there. It will focus on self-evolving humanoid robots and whole-body models, and will set up a joint humanoid robot lab with TeleAI.
The founder and chief executive is Bai Chenjia, who previously led TeleAI's general embodied intelligence institute and helped build its embodied AI research team. Li Xuelong, China Telecom's chief technology officer and chief scientist and the head of TeleAI, will serve as scientific adviser.
Gamma Robotics is pursuing two technical goals. Self-evolution means robots keep gathering experience from real interactions and updating their abilities, so models improve while in use. The whole-body model targets the high degree-of-freedom system formed by a humanoid's body and dexterous hands, aiming to handle balance, complex contact and fine manipulation together. The company says it wants to model locomotion and dexterous manipulation in one framework, so that moving, balancing, grasping and handling objects link into complete task skills.
According to the announcement, the team builds on TeleAI work that already connects an embodied brain for planning, a cerebellum for motor control and synthetic data generation. China Telecom's cloud and computing network is expected to supply training, inference and deployment resources.
A distinctive element is the carrier's network. Gamma Robotics will work with TeleAI on the device, edge and cloud coordination of AI Flow, TeleAI's intelligent communication network, linking robots with edge nodes and cloud systems. The goal is for experience one robot gains in the physical world to become a shared capability for other nodes, so robots can learn from each other and complete tasks as a group.
The first demonstration projects will target China Telecom's AI data center operations and maintenance, plus home and commercial services. The two sides say they will test robots' capability limits, system stability and efficiency in real scenarios with ecosystem partners, then refine products and delivery based on that feedback.
For China Telecom, the spinout ties its computing network and AI research to a dedicated humanoid robot business.
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