Qiyuan Robots Integrates with Tencent WorkBuddy, Forms Strategic Partnership with Tencent Cloud to Advance Physical AI

On October 29, the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit opened at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. Tian Hua, CEO of SWANCOR Advanced Materials and Qiyuan Robotics, was invited to attend the summit and deliver a keynote speech, in which he systematically elaborated on Qiyuan Robotics' thinking on building physical AI capabilities for personal robots and shared the latest progress of Qiyuan Robotics' integration with Tencent WorkBuddy. Tian Hua stated that moving from digital AI to physical AI requires the coordinated evolution of the robot body, AI, and the ecosystem. By integrating with WorkBuddy, Qiyuan Robotics brings AI from the screen into reality, enabling it to perceive the environment, understand needs, and execute tasks in real-world scenarios, realizing sensing, thinking, following, and acting in the physical world, so that physical AI no longer has a barrier to entry. Qiyuan Robotics' integration with WorkBuddy connects the digital and physical worlds. Tian Hua introduced that WorkBuddy is the key hub that helps Qiyuan Robotics bridge the digital world and the physical world. Users issue instructions in natural language; WorkBuddy understands the intent and breaks down tasks; and Qiyuan Robotics executes the tasks by combining environmental perception and motion capabilities, forming an interaction chain from task understanding to robot execution. In the past, the threshold for robot application development was high, making it difficult to match ever-changing real-world needs. The WorkBuddy ecosystem has more than 100,000 Skills, and this integration will extend its rich Skills to Qiyuan Robotics' application development. Users can leverage these capabilities to orchestrate and create robot skills through natural language, lowering the threshold for robot application development and enabling more people to participate in robot application development. Qiyuan Robotics, in turn, is the entry point for WorkBuddy into the physical world: users issue an instruction in one sentence, WorkBuddy understands the intent and breaks down and plans the task, and the robot perceives the environment and carries out execution. "This is an essential change brought by physical AI: with Qiyuan Robotics' integration with WorkBuddy, AI no longer stays in the screen for input and output, but enters reality, realizing sensing, thinking, following, and acting in the physical world. Sensing means perceiving the real environment; thinking means understanding and reasoning about real-world scenarios; following lets AI capabilities follow like a shadow; and acting means calling on 100,000-level Skills to get things done," Tian Hua emphasized. "The combination of the two allows the robot to see your world and reach your side." From work partner to life companion, bringing AI Agent capabilities into real-world scenario applications. After integrating with WorkBuddy, Qiyuan Q1 and Qiyuan T1 have connected skills such as Tencent Meeting, WeChat Reading, QQ Music, and picture book generation, providing services to users in work and life scenarios. In office scenarios, Qiyuan robots can help check Tencent Meeting schedules and order coffee, becoming a work partner by the user's side; in life scenarios, the robot can play music, tell picture-book stories, and accompany family members in interaction. In his speech, Tian Hua took picture book creation as an example: with WorkBuddy generating stories, illustrations, and robot actions, the robot can tell stories in a more vivid way, enriching parent-child interaction experiences; in the office case, the robot can also help purchase coffee and complete payment, sharing daily chores at work. The cooperation between the two parties moves embodied intelligence from concept demonstrations to real scenarios, marking that AI Agents and embodied intelligence are beginning to form a more complete capability loop, opening new imaginative space for physical AI applications. Qiyuan Robotics and Tencent Cloud sign a strategic cooperation agreement, with the body, AI, and ecosystem evolving in coordination and continuing to grow. Physical AI not only needs to understand and generate information, but also needs to understand tasks and execute actions in combination with the real environment, and adjust behavior based on feedback. Tian Hua believes that moving from digital AI to physical AI and bringing robots into homes requires solving three problems: the difficulty of mass-producing the body, the difficulty of building brain intelligence, and the difficulty of ecosystem application development. The way to break through is to let the robot body, AI, and ecosystem evolve in coordination. Relying on its own mass-production achievements and self-developed foundation, Qiyuan Robotics integrates the capabilities of ecosystem partners such as Tencent Cloud to accelerate the implementation of AI entering the physical world. In terms of ecosystem building, Qiyuan's self-developed PrimeHub Yuanchuang Workshop and PrimeFlow customizable appearance platform are also continuously evolving and unlocking new capabilities, building the ecosystem foundation for personal robots. Among them, PrimeHub focuses on robot skill development, exploring the use of WorkBuddy to create and debug skills and conduct simulation and real-machine verification; PrimeFlow supports robot appearance customization, generating customized appearances with one sentence and one image, providing users with more personalized choices and making robots users' exclusive silicon-based companions. The ecosystem building of personal robots is not a "one-man show." From the first mass-production deliveries to the rollout of the 5,000th robot, Qiyuan is driving personal robots from technology R&D to product application. At this summit, Qiyuan Robotics and Tencent Cloud officially reached a strategic cooperation. The two parties will take personal robots and WorkBuddy as the core open carriers, jointly build a cloud-edge-device collaborative consumer-grade personal robot solution, jointly build a prosperous personal robot ecosystem, and jointly promote the large-scale implementation of the physical AI industry. In the future, Qiyuan will join hands with ecosystem partners including Tencent Cloud to continue building an open ecosystem for personal robots, advance AI beyond the screen into the physical world and into the daily lives of millions of users, and jointly embark on a new era of physical AI.