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Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - OpenDriveLab

China

OpenDriveLab is not an internal Shanghai AI Lab team but a research initiative mainly hosted at the University of Hong Kong; AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics) is a separate private startup, not a subsidiary of Shanghai AI Lab, the two organizations run a dataset and research partnership.

Updated 2026-07-10 · Last verified 2026-07-10

AffiliationInstitut de recherche public chinois, en partenariat de recherche avec AgiBot / Zhiyuan Robotics pour le dataset AgiBot World
CountryCN
TypePublic research
Research areasembodied AI, end-to-end autonomous driving, world models, humanoid manipulation datasets, VLA
Flagship contributionCo-produced AgiBot World, an open dataset of over one million manipulation trajectories collected by 100+ robots across 100+ real-world scenarios, and GO-1, a generalist policy model trained on it.
Key peopleHongyang Li (cofondateur et lead scientist d'OpenDriveLab, Assistant Professor à HKU, chercheur affilié à Shanghai AI Lab), Zhou Bowen (Directeur et Chief Scientist de Shanghai AI Laboratory depuis juillet 2024)
Open outputsDataset AgiBot World (GitHub OpenDriveLab/AgiBot-World, Hugging Face agibot-world/AgiBotWorld-Alpha et Beta), poids du modèle GO-1 / GO-1 Air, code de UniAD (Best Paper CVPR 2023) en open source.
CityShanghai

Sources : OpenDriveLab (2026-01)GitHub (2026-01)The Robot Report (2026-06)South China Morning Post (2024-07)

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