Qiyuan Robots Join Tencent WorkBuddy, Calling 10,000+ Skills
On September 20, Qiyuan Robotics — the consumer-grade embodied-intelligence brand under Shangwei New Materials — announced a partnership with Tencent's WorkBuddy. The company's Qiyuan Q1 and Qiyuan T1 robots are now connected to the platform, making Qiyuan the first embodied-intelligence enterprise to join WorkBuddy.
Once integrated, the robots can directly call on more than 10,000 Skills hosted on WorkBuddy, combining AI understanding and reasoning with the robots' speech and locomotion. The result is a complete intelligent interaction chain that runs from hearing an instruction and planning a task through to physical execution and feedback on the outcome.
Most traditional robots can only perform a single preset action. Backed by WorkBuddy's natural-language understanding, information retrieval and task orchestration, the Qiyuan robots can take on more complex real-world demands.
The two sides provide three access modes. In the A2A mode, the Qiyuan Q1 and T1 can proactively invoke WorkBuddy Skills. Alternatively, users can bind a robot within WorkBuddy and issue instructions in natural language. Third-party applications and Agents can also use plug-ins to dynamically generate Skills, allowing reasoning and action to be combined flexibly. Ordinary users need no programming knowledge at all — natural language alone is enough to define a task. At an exhibition, for example, a single instruction can lead the platform to generate the corresponding skill, which is previewed in 3D simulation and checked for capability before being handed to a physical robot for execution. The scheme can be applied to booth greeting, information broadcasting and interactive games, with robots retrieving information, reading it aloud and responding to changes in live data.
For safe deployment, the partners built a four-layer security mechanism: connection permission control, capability-scope constraints, pre-deployment verification and real-machine action confirmation. Dynamically generated skills must clear whitelist validation, and physical actions require secondary confirmation so that a robot's behavior stays controllable. The mechanism targets risks unique to dynamic skill generation. A robot running preset actions has clearly defined behavioral boundaries, whereas a dynamically generated skill may exceed expectations and therefore needs multiple layers of validation before it is allowed on the hardware.
The partnership marks a complete capability loop between AI Agents and embodied intelligence, and it upgrades personal robots from executing fixed actions to assembling skills on demand and autonomously completing complex tasks. It is also progress in expanding Tencent's open WorkBuddy ecosystem. The WorkBuddy open platform launched on September 2, gathering more than 100 ecosystem partners in its first cohort; going forward it will keep connecting hardware and developer ecosystems to widen the application space for AI Agents in the physical world.
Qiyuan's integration is essentially a way to release cloud AI capabilities through a physical carrier. The robot does not need to generate documents, retrieve information or analyze data by itself — it only needs to hear, speak, move and gesture, converting WorkBuddy's output into behavior in the physical world. If this division of labor works, embodied intelligence may take a landing path different from that of pure robotics companies, one that depends instead on the maturity of the cloud AI ecosystem. WorkBuddy can orchestrate tens of thousands of Skills, and the range of capabilities those Skills cover will define the boundary of what the robots can do.