Amap от Alibaba обновила ABot: пять моделей робототехники и SOTA в 17 бенчмарках

TITLE: Amap from Alibaba Updates ABot: Five Robotics Models and SOTA in 17 Benchmarks

Amap (Gaode, 高德) — Alibaba Group's mapping service — in July 2026 announced a full update to its embodied system ABot and simultaneously released five new models that took first place (SOTA) in as many as 17 authoritative benchmarks at once.

Which models did Amap release

Amap presented five embodied-intelligence models under the shared ABot brand — the first time Alibaba's mapping service has rolled out a whole lineup of models for controlling robots. The company calls the update "full-stack": it touches all key layers of the system, not a single module.

• ABot-N1, ABot-M0.5, ABot-ER, ABot-AgentOS, ABot-C0 — five models presented simultaneously
• SOTA (state-of-the-art) in 17 authoritative benchmarks
• The update covers four domains: perception, decision-making, execution, and memory
• Developer — Amap (Gaode), a division of Alibaba Group
• Stated goal — autonomous execution of general-purpose tasks by robots

What the update covers

The ABot update touches four domains of a robot's operation: perception, decision-making, execution, and memory. Following this logic, the lineup of five models closes the full cycle — from how a robot "sees" its surroundings to how it remembers previous actions and plans the next ones.

Amap did not disclose the detailed purpose of each of the five models or their individual technical parameters. In its statement, the company emphasizes systemic scope: through a unified update of all of ABot's layers, it should comprehensively improve robots' ability to perform general tasks autonomously.

"A unified update covering perception, decision-making, execution, and memory comprehensively improves robots' ability to autonomously perform general-purpose tasks,"

Amap's statement says.

Why it matters

Amap's entry into embodied AI shows that Alibaba is expanding its bet on robotics beyond the cloud and language models. Amap is known primarily for navigation and maps, so a lineup of five models for physical robots marks a notable pivot toward "embodied" intelligence that controls hardware in the real world, not just text on a screen.

The result across 17 benchmarks is a signal to competitors: Chinese tech giants are expanding their presence in embodied AI, where labs are racing to control humanoids and service robots. For the industry, what matters is the very fact that a major internet player is rolling out five models at once and claiming leadership on independent metrics.

What it means

Amap has staked out a position in embodied AI with five models at once and SOTA results in 17 benchmarks — a bid by Alibaba for a role in the race for autonomous robots. How strong that bid is will be shown by independent verification and real-world deployments, the details of which the company has not yet disclosed.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Amap's ABot?

ABot is an embodied system from Amap, an Alibaba division, for autonomously controlling robots. In July 2026 it received a full update and now includes five models: ABot-N1, ABot-M0.5, ABot-ER, ABot-AgentOS, and ABot-C0.

In how many benchmarks did ABot reach SOTA?

According to Amap's statement, the updated ABot system reached SOTA (state-of-the-art) results in 17 authoritative benchmarks covering a robot's perception, decision-making, execution, and memory.