AGIBOT brings its full humanoid lineup and a rental model to Riyadh

AGIBOT, the Shanghai-based embodied AI company, held a dedicated launch event in Riyadh on the evening of September 1, showing its full robot portfolio to a Saudi audience and setting out a purchase-and-rental business model for the Middle East. The event ran alongside LEAP 2026, and a company executive separately spoke on the DeepFest programme about where AGIBOT thinks the technology is headed. The portfolio AGIBOT is bringing to the region spans four series. The A2 line is the company's full-size humanoid, built for reception desks and guided interaction; AGIBOT's own product specifications put it at 175cm tall, 55kg, with 40 degrees of freedom and roughly two hours of runtime on a charge. The X2 series is a smaller, half-sized humanoid AGIBOT positions for entertainment, education and research rather than commercial deployment. The G2 series drops bipedal legs for an omnidirectional wheeled chassis, which AGIBOT says is aimed at industrial precision assembly and continuous factory operation rather than walking around a showroom floor. The fourth series, D1, is a quadruped built for inspection work in environments too awkward or hazardous for wheeled equipment. This goes beyond AGIBOT's other appearance at LEAP this week. The Tech Arena has been running live demonstrations featuring an AGIBOT A2 Ultra unit alongside robots from Unitree , which is a showcase of a single model in motion. What AGIBOT set out at its own event is a commercial pitch: the full four-series range, and a route for a Saudi buyer to acquire any of them without necessarily owning one outright. That route is a robot-as-a-service rental arrangement AGIBOT already runs in other markets, which the company says starts at €899 a day with no minimum commitment beyond a single day and no fixed maximum term. AGIBOT says the programme already operates across 17 countries; it did not say, at the Riyadh event, how many of those rental agreements are commercial customers as opposed to trials, or whether Saudi Arabia's terms will match the pricing used elsewhere. Speaking on the DeepFest programme, Abel Deng, who leads AGIBOT's Middle East and Asia-Pacific operations, framed embodied AI robots as the next shift in how people interact with technology, following keyboards and then smartphones. His argument, as AGIBOT presented it, is that combining perception, reasoning and physical action in one system lets a robot operate in an ordinary building or factory floor without the environment being redesigned around it — a claim about the underlying architecture rather than a claim about any specific deployment. AGIBOT arrives in Riyadh as one of several Chinese robotics and autonomy companies using LEAP week to court the Saudi market; WeRide used the same week to show its robotaxi and robobus lineup , and Chinese vendors more broadly have made physical AI hardware a visible theme of this year's event, a category Korea's NC AI is also pursuing with its own full-stack physical AI push . What was not disclosed at either the launch event or the DeepFest session is any Saudi-specific commercial detail: no named buyer, no unit count committed to the Kingdom, no local assembly or service arrangement, and no pricing specific to the Saudi market beyond the general RaaS rate AGIBOT quotes internationally. The company's specification claims for the A2, X2, G2 and D1 series, including degrees of freedom, weight and runtime figures, come from AGIBOT's own product materials rather than independent testing. TechScoop is reporting from LEAP 2026 in Riyadh.