AGIBOT's Head of North America Will Explain How to Bring Humanoid Robots Out of the Lab at RoboBusiness 2026
Yinghao Song will walk through the real business case for factory-floor robots on October 20 in Santa Clara, covering costs, supply chains, and what it takes to make humanoids pay for themselves.
Key points
- AGIBOT's Yinghao Song will speak at RoboBusiness 2026 in Santa Clara, California, on October 20, 2026, at 1:15 p.m. PT.
- His session focuses on moving humanoid robots, machines built to move and work like people, from small pilots into full commercial deployment.
- AGIBOT currently has a pilot running inside Longcheer Technology's factory in Nanchang, China.
- Song will cover the investment logic, supply chain requirements, and return-on-investment frameworks companies ask for before committing to robots.
- RoboBusiness 2026 marks the event's 20th anniversary, taking place October 20 and 21 in Santa Clara.
A robot that can carry boxes, sort parts, or work a factory floor without being bolted to a fixed track sounds futuristic. Building a convincing prototype is one thing. Selling it at scale to real businesses is something else entirely, and that gap is what one executive wants to close in public.
Yinghao Song, head of North America at AGIBOT, a Chinese company that develops humanoid robots and what it calls "embodied AI" (AI that lives inside a physical body rather than on a screen), will speak at RoboBusiness 2026 on October 20. The event, first reported by The Robot Report, runs October 20 and 21 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California.
What will Song actually say?
His session tackles the hard commercial questions most robot demos skip. Song plans to walk through the investment logic behind humanoid and quadruped robots (four-legged machines modelled loosely on animals), the supply chain realities of building them in large numbers, and the return-on-investment case that a factory owner or logistics company needs to see before writing a cheque.
He will also address the "software-hardware gap," the problem that even a well-built robot body is useless without software telling it what to do in messy, real-world spaces. AGIBOT's answer involves modular software stacks and open SDKs, meaning software toolkits that outside developers can use freely, so partners can adapt the robots for automotive plants, warehouses, and research labs without starting from scratch.
AGIBOT already has skin in the game. The company is running a live pilot at Longcheer Technology's Nanchang factory, giving Song real numbers to draw from rather than lab projections.
Why does this matter to people who don't work in robotics?
Because the factories and warehouses these robots are targeting employ a lot of people, and the business case Song is describing is the same one their employers are evaluating right now.
To be clear: a successful commercial humanoid robot is not around the corner for most workplaces. The bottleneck Song is speaking to, mass production and proven ROI, is still unsolved. His talk is about strategy, not a product launch. That is an important distinction.
Survivorship bias is also worth flagging here. AGIBOT's Nanchang pilot is one data point, chosen because it is going well enough to present publicly. Plenty of robot pilots never make it past the pilot stage.
What happens next?
Full conference passes for RoboBusiness 2026 cover all keynotes, technical sessions, and networking receptions including a Mix and Mingle on the first evening. Discounts are available for academic, association, and corporate group buyers through events[at]arrowfly.com.
If your company is weighing any kind of automation decision in the next two years, Song's session is worth two hours of your time.
One honest takeaway: before your business evaluates any robotics vendor, ask for a documented ROI case from a site comparable to yours, not a factory showcase chosen specifically to impress visitors.
