AgiBot Unveils Worken Physical AI Metric, Releases Industry Report

At the 2026 AIGBOT Innovation Day on Oct. 29, AgiBot co-founder, president and CTO Peng Zhihui unveiled Worken, or effective intelligent work hours, described as the first metric for defining the value of physical AI. The unit is intended to measure the actual output of autonomous robot operations rather than only lab performance, giving companies and researchers a common way to compare systems and assess commercial value. The 2026 Embodied Intelligence Industry Innovation Report was released at the same event.

Worken’s debut reflects a broader push in embodied AI to move from demonstrations toward measurable productive deployment. The company positions the metric as a step toward evaluating embodied systems by useful work completed, not just technical capability, though broad adoption will depend on standardized data collection and validation across robot platforms and tasks. Details on calculation methods and pilot applications were not disclosed in the announcement.