Robotics companies have spent two years competing on how many humanoids they can roll off a line. AgiBot wants the argument to move to how much work each one actually does. At its Innovation Day in Shanghai on October 29, the company proposed a measure called Worken, blending the words work and token.
The formula multiplies three factors: robots actively performing tasks, hours spent working autonomously, and an output efficiency ratio benchmarked against a human worker on the same job. Idle inventory does not count, and neither does powered-on time.
Why the industry needs a different number
Shipment figures are easy to report and easy to game. Two deployments of identical size can deliver wildly different value depending on how often a human has to step in, and no press release captures that.
AgiBot also argues the measure reframes robot economics. Hardware depreciates on a schedule, but a better model can make the same machine more productive before it wears out. Tracking output against lifecycle cost starts to look more honest than counting units.
Hardware and models alongside the metric
The company paired the proposal with product news. AHA3 is its third-generation humanoid architecture, adding a joint liquid-cooling system for continuous operation and IP67-rated joints for harsher environments. A new family of dexterous hands and a tactile gripper expands manipulation options.
On the software side, AgiBot previewed GO-3, an embodied foundation model built on a framework it calls WRAM, and WITA-Omni 1.0 for interaction. Link-U OS 1.0 will go open source by the end of 2026 through the OpenAtom Foundation.
