Ace Robotics’ Kairos World Model Achieves Multiple Global SOTA Results, Providing a General-Purpose Embodied AI Brain for All Categories of Intelligent Robots

Ace Robotics has unveiled the full technical results of its independently developed Kairos 3.0 World Model. Built on ACE, the company’s human-centered, end-to-end R&D system, the model topped four leading international embodied AI benchmarks. Its natively unified architecture addresses three major industry challenges: physical reasoning for real-world robots, cross-embodiment adaptation, and edge deployment. It supports commercial deployment across multiple robot categories, including inspection robots, humanoids, and warehouse robots. 

According to a Frost & Sullivan industry report published in September 2025, Ace Robotics’ Kairos World Model ranked first in China for its combined technological, product, and ecosystem capabilities. The model introduces a natively unified “multimodal understanding-generation-prediction” architecture. Unlike the modular “generation backbone plus external control module” approach commonly used by leading overseas world models, Kairos uses a single hybrid Transformer backbone to unify environmental perception, dynamic scene generation, and robot action prediction. At the architectural level, it addresses long-standing industry challenges including mismatches between visual representations and action spaces, cumulative errors in long-horizon simulation, and unrealistic physical interaction logic. 

Public benchmark data show that the lightweight 4B version of Kairos 3.0 runs 72 times faster than Cosmos 2.5. It supports coherent physical scene generation for sequences of up to seven minutes, with fluid, deformable-object, and rigid-body interactions that follow real-world mechanics. It is also the world’s first open-source world model capable of driving physical robots in real time at the edge. The model can run locally on edge hardware such as Jetson THOR and directly output a complete set of robot control commands without relying on high-compute cloud clusters.

Across the four global embodied AI benchmarks RoboTwin 2.0, LIBERO-Plus, WorldModelBench Robot, and DreamGen, Kairos 3.0 led overseas competitors across all evaluated metrics. It achieved a 72.8% success rate on the RoboCasa GR1 TableTop humanoid manipulation benchmark and a 90.62% success rate under highly randomized conditions on the RoboTwin 2.0 dual-arm manipulation benchmark, setting new industry records. Through its “one brain, multiple embodiments” unified action-space capability, the model can seamlessly adapt to quadrupeds, humanoids, and robotic arms from leading manufacturers such as Unitree, AgiBot, and AgileX Robotics, reducing secondary development costs for robotics companies.

To support developers worldwide, Ace Robotics has released two sets of open-source resources. The first is the full codebase for the lightweight Kairos 3.0-4B World Model, available on GitHub and Hugging Face. The second is Kairos-HomeWorld, the world’s first whole-home, three-dimensional interactive world model framework, together with its supporting dataset. The dataset contains 300,000 structured residential floor plans, 5,000 complete simulated home environments, and 50,000 physically interactive object assets, addressing the shortage of simulation data for training home robots. 

Built on the Kairos World Model foundation, Ace Robotics has developed standardized products including the A1 Embodied Superbrain Module, the ACE-Ego embodied manipulation VLA model, and the Xiaotu Autonomous Inspection Solution. Quadruped robot dogs equipped with the A1 module have been deployed at Shanghai’s West Bund and major cultural and tourism events in Tianjin, conducting autonomous patrols across open urban areas around the clock. They can avoid obstacles, dynamically plan routes, and identify safety hazards. ACE-Ego uses a human-centered data collection paradigm and joint training on large-scale first-person human video data, enabling stable deployment in retail scenarios such as footwear packaging and product sorting.

Commercially, Ace Robotics has formed strategic world model partnerships with more than ten embodied robotics companies. Its technical solutions have been deeply adapted to five major categories of domestically developed chips, enabling full-stack technological independence and control. In the first quarter of 2026, the company signed orders worth more than RMB 100 million and projects full-year revenue of RMB 300 million to RMB 500 million. It recently raised hundreds of millions of US dollars in an Angel+ financing round. The funding will continue to support world model iteration, cross-hardware adaptation, and the joint development of the industrial ecosystem.

Industry observers regard world models as the core infrastructure for the next generation of general-purpose robots. Combining high performance, lightweight deployment, and production-readiness, Ace Robotics’ Kairos World Model offers the global robotics industry a differentiated, natively developed technical path and continues to advance embodied AI from laboratory demonstrations to large-scale commercial deployment.

Company Profile

Ace Robotics focuses on foundational R&D for embodied AI world models. The company brings together leading international scholars and PhD research partners and has pioneered a complete ACE technology loop integrating environmental data collection, world models, and generalization modules. It provides robotic brain solutions for applications across industry, urban governance, retail, culture, and tourism.