Robotics · 9 November 2026 · 4 min read
Six shop robots logged 1,730 tasks. The list is not a pass rate
AGIBOT says six G2 robots worked a Shanghai convenience store from 10:00 on 2 November to 10:00 on 3 November, and counts 1,730 tasks, including 147 coffees. A later account says four of the six were judged to have passed. No success rate for the 1,730 is in the tally.
From 10:00 on 2 November to 10:00 on 3 November, AGIBOT says, six of its G2 robots worked in an operating convenience store in Shanghai’s Xuhui district, on a public stream. The company’s tally is 1,730 tasks: 683 customer receptions, 369 item fetches, 147 coffees, 126 breakfasts, 277 shelf checks and restocks, and 128 table cleanings. The stream is said to have drawn more than two million viewers. Those are the company’s counts of things it says were done. They are not a rate of things that went right the first time, and they are not a count of the times a person took over.
A pass mark came later, and from a different page. An account carried by Jiqizhixin, via Sohu, says AGIBOT treated the day as a probation, and that four of the six robots were judged to have passed. The two that did not were the ones on shelf work and on cleaning, marked down on stability and on staying at the job. That is a judgement of two machines, not a success rate on 1,730 tasks. The reports that printed the task list, including Jiemian and Securities Times, did not print how often a task failed. A coffee counted is not a coffee that a customer would have paid for without a person standing by.
The company has a proposed score for this kind of day, which it calls Worken: robots on a task, times hours without a driver, times an efficiency ratio it is still refining. The shop tally is not written in that unit. A day in a shop is evidence of a kind. It is the company’s evidence.