Embodied AI Glossary中文Alibaba Group
阿里巴巴CommonA Hangzhou internet giant self-developing embodied models under the Qwen brand while investing in multiple robot-body makers.
Alibaba Group was founded in Hangzhou in 1999 by Jack Ma and others, with core businesses in e-commerce and Alibaba Cloud. In embodied AI it follows a “build the brain in-house, invest in the body” strategy. On models, its DAMO Academy open-sourced the embodied-brain model RynnBrain in February 2026, and its Qwen team released the Qwen-Robot family on June 16 — the manipulation model RobotManip, the navigation model RobotNav, and the world model RobotWorld. On investment, it took a stake in LimX Dynamics in May 2024, and in September 2025 Alibaba Cloud led a nearly RMB 1 billion Series A+ round in X Square Robot; it has also invested in RobotEra and Noematrix. In October 2025, Junyang Lin, then head of Qwen's technical team, said the team had already formed a robotics and embodied-AI group internally; he left in March 2026 and later founded Pragmatik Labs.
ExampleWhen news says “Alibaba is entering embodied AI,” it usually means moves like Qwen releasing the Qwen-Robot models or Alibaba Cloud leading a round in X Square Robot — complete robot bodies mostly come through its investments in body makers.
- Also called
- Alibaba
- Related
- Qwen-Robot Series · Alibaba DAMO Academy · RynnBrain · X Square Robot · LimX Dynamics · Pragmatik Labs
- Sources
- 阿里千问发布 Qwen-Robot 具身模型系列（量子位，2026-06） (Chinese)
阿里入场 具身智能迎来超级玩家（财联社） (Chinese)
首度布局人形机器人 阿里投了这家深圳企业（财联社，2024-05） (Chinese) - As of
- 2026-06