Autel Launches Air-Ground Intelligence Brand and "Industry Brain" Model; Aeon Opens Physical AI Logistics Hub

Nvdium Tech | October 31, 2026

Autel unveils AAGI brand and Ranger embodied robots

At its 2026 Autel Air-Ground Intelligence Alliance conference in Shenzhen on October 30, Autel Intelligent Technology's robotics subsidiary, together with Autel Robotics and Saifang Technology, launched AAGI (Autel Air–Ground Intelligence), a solutions brand covering wheeled humanoid robots, bipedal humanoid robots and supporting software platforms. Deals worth 131 million yuan were signed at the event. The company also showed its Ranger series of embodied robots. The Ranger X1 is built for emergency and security work in hazardous settings, combining multimodal scene understanding, autonomous navigation and task planning, with support for multi-robot dispatch and remote human takeover. The Ranger R1-W is a wheeled patrol robot designed for long stretches of unattended inspection; it flags anomalies, raises alerts and writes reports automatically, and can be deployed without modifying the site.

Autel also introduced its "Industry Brain," a multimodal model with around 2 billion parameters aimed at physical agents. It handles task reasoning and planning, visual understanding, spatial understanding and tool use. According to the company, it plans tasks from natural-language instructions with 98% accuracy and under one second of latency, and when spotting events such as traffic accidents, border intrusions or unauthorized drone flights in video streams it reaches an F1 score of 87.38% with 0.2 seconds of latency. The conference also launched the AIP platform and three industry platforms, Avant Hub 2.0, EIS 2.0 and Skyshield 2.0, which put ground robots, unmanned vehicles, drones and drone docks into one workflow: a customer states a job, the platform builds the plan, staff sign off at key steps, and the machines carry it out.

Aeon and Mujin bring a 90-robot logistics hub into full operation

Japanese retailer Aeon and robot control software company Mujin began full operations on October 30 at Aeon Kawaguchi-Higashi XD, a distribution hub in Kawaguchi, Saitama prefecture, that supplies about 200 My Basket small supermarkets in the Tokyo area. More than 90 robots work at the site, including 82 automated guided vehicles that carry individual items to temporary storage. Incoming cases are identified by sensors and placed on conveyors, and robot arms stack outgoing goods onto cart racks for each store. Instead of repeating pre-programmed motions, the robots decide the stacking order and placement themselves based on each item's weight and shape, so loads don't collapse.

Aeon says it is the first time the full flow from sorting products to loading them by store has been automated. About half of the hub's work is now automated, cutting labor needs by roughly 39 people a day, and Aeon puts the robots' productivity at three to four times that of human workers. The company aims to lift its automation rate to 80% by 2030, roll the approach out to logistics sites serving the group's supermarkets and drugstores, and is studying automation of the entire process from receiving to shipping. With Japan's logistics sector short of workers, robots that adjust to what's in front of them are moving out of demos and into daily operations.