# vivo Robotics Team Wins ICRA 2026 AGIBOT World Challenge Reasoning to Action Track

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- Published: 2026-06-11T20:15:00+07:00
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_With top performance across two global challenges at ICRA 2026, vivo demonstrates
the robustness and transferability of its robotics capabilities in real-world environments._

SHENZHEN, China, June 11, 2026  /PRNewswire/ — vivo is proud to announce that the
company’s PrismBot robotics team won the Reasoning to Action Track at the ICRA 2026
AGIBOT World Challenge, held recently in Vienna as part of the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation, a leading international robotics conference.

The vivo robotics team secured first place in the real-robot final with a decisive
lead, demonstrating the strength of its technical approach in translating task understanding
into action decisions in complex real-world environments. vivo advanced to the top
in a highly competitive field that attracted 526 teams from across 27 countries 
and regions.

The vivo robotics team also received recognition for its strong performance in the
Whole Body Control Track, ranking among the top three global teams, further underscoring
the company’s robust R&D and deep technical capabilities in embodied intelligence.

These results reflect vivo’s broader strategy to build a perception system based
on its imaging technologies and develop an AI-powered robot "brain" to help bring
intelligent capabilities into the physical world, as outlined by Hu Baishan, President
and COO at vivo, President of vivo Central Research Institute at the Boao Forum 
for Asia 2026.

[⌊Certificate recognizing the vivo Robotics Team’s championship in the ICRA 2026
Reasoning to Action Track⌉⌊Certificate recognizing the vivo Robotics Team’s championship
in the ICRA 2026 Reasoning to Action Track⌉[
Certificate recognizing the vivo Robotics
Team’s championship in the ICRA 2026 Reasoning to Action Track

**Integrated Intelligence and Execution Drive vivo’s Reasoning to Action Track Win**

The AGIBOT World Challenge, held as part of ICRA 2026, is one of the most demanding
international competitions in embodied intelligence. The competition sets a high
technical threshold, emphasizes real-world deployment, and uses rigorous real-robot
testing to evaluate the performance of participating systems.

Its main competition, the Reasoning to Action Track, focuses on a core challenge
in embodied intelligence: translating task understanding into action decisions. 
The track combines online simulation evaluation with offline real-robot testing 
in Vienna, with scoring based on task completion rates in real environments, long-
horizon stability, and generalization across complex scenarios.

[⌊vivo Robotics Team fine-tuning algorithms on site at ICRA in Vienna⌉⌊vivo Robotics
Team fine-tuning algorithms on site at ICRA in Vienna⌉[
vivo Robotics Team fine-
tuning algorithms on site at ICRA in Vienna

This innovative competition format moves beyond the industry’s reliance on simulation
data alone, focusing on bridging the gap between simulation and real-world deployment.
Participating models must independently complete intent understanding, task decomposition,
sub-goal sequencing, and exception recovery in real environments and then reliably
translate the full decision-making process into physical execution through a robotic
arm.

To address complex long-horizon tasks and real-world environmental interference,
the vivo robotics team developed a training and inference framework centered on 
keyframe optimization and contrastive learning. Keyframe loss weighting helps the
model learn critical action points more effectively, while contrastive learning 
significantly reduces the semantic gap between text-based instructions and physical
action execution.

[⌊Award ceremony for the ICRA 2026 AGIBOT World Challenge Reasoning to Action Track⌉⌊
Award ceremony for the ICRA 2026 AGIBOT World Challenge Reasoning to Action Track⌉[
Award ceremony
for the ICRA 2026 AGIBOT World Challenge Reasoning to Action Track

**Top-Three Finish in Whole Body Control Track Validates the Transferability of 
vivo’s Technical Approach**

In the Whole Body Control Track held alongside ICRA 2026, robots were required to
autonomously pick up specified products in a realistic supermarket scenario and 
accurately place them into a shopping cart. The track addresses real challenges 
in retail environments, including diverse product categories, changing spatial layouts,
complex semantic understanding, instruction following, and action generalization.

[⌊Award ceremony for the ICRA 2026 Whole Body Control Track⌉⌊Award ceremony for 
the ICRA 2026 Whole Body Control Track⌉[
Award ceremony for the ICRA 2026 Whole 
Body Control Track

The vivo robotics team secured a top-three placement by successfully applying the
same reasoning to action-centered technical system to the whole-body control scenario,
using keyframe loss weighting to improve grasping accuracy and contrastive learning
to better identify grasping directions.

The result further validates the transferability and engineering robustness of vivo’s
technical approach across different task types.

[⌊Certificate recognizing the vivo Robotics Team’s award in the Whole Body Control
Track⌉⌊Certificate recognizing the vivo Robotics Team’s award in the Whole Body 
Control Track⌉[
Certificate recognizing the vivo Robotics Team’s award in the Whole
Body Control Track

**Defining the Next Generation of Smart Devices, Starting from the Home Environment**

Competitions are a valuable testbed for technology and offer a glimpse into the 
next wave of innovation. Looking ahead to the evolution of smart devices over the
next decade, vivo believes robots will become another important gateway for personal
and household use after smartphones.

vivo has chosen the home as a starting point for its robotics research and development
because home environments place high demands on long-horizon tasks, dual-arm collaboration,
fine manipulation, reasoning, and decision-making. These capabilities closely align
with those tested at ICRA 2026.

Focusing on home scenarios, the vivo robotics team is moving from teleoperation 
toward autonomous intelligence, gradually improving the executability and scalable
validation of complex tasks. Building on its experience in device systems, imaging
capabilities, and global product development, vivo is developing a robotics capability
system that combines hardware and software and continues to evolve over time.

The ICRA 2026 awards mark an important milestone in vivo’s long-term work in robotics.
The next challenge is to bring embodied intelligence into everyday home environments.
vivo will continue to invest in this field as it explores the next generation of
smart devices and creates better user experiences through meaningful innovation.

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About vivo

vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a user-oriented
value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims
to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity,
vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following
the company’s core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven
value, continuous learning, and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable 
development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable
world-class corporation.

While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence,
vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing,
Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi’an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-
of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial
design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up
an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with 
an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo
has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions and
is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.

*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing 
things right – which is the ideal description of vivo’s mission to create value 
for society.

Stay informed of the latest vivo news at [https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news](https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news)

 

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