World’s Biggest Humanoid Robot Maker Wants To Change How We Measure Robot Work

World’s Biggest Humanoid Robot Maker Wants To Change How We Measure Robot Work

Are you ready to measure robot work in "worken" tokens? Agibot hopes you are ... and just unleashed new hardware and software for humanoid robots.

Agibot proposes Worken as a measure of robot productivity

Worken combines active robot counts, autonomous working hours, and output efficiency, and could support pricing based on work delivered.

AgiBot Proposes Worken to Measure Robot Work, Aims to Cut Engineers per Robot to 1 in 10 by Year-End

AgiBot used its 2026 Innovation Day in Shanghai on October 29 to propose a new unit for measuring what robots actually contribute at work. Co-founder, president and CTO Peng Zhihui called it Worken, or effective intelligent work hours, and defined it as the number of active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours and an output-efficiency ratio. Peng argued that uptime is not the same as value. A robot switched on for eight hours has not ne…

Are Robots Really Productive? AGIBOT's New Worken Framework Has an Answer

AGIBOT has introduced Worken, a new framework designed to measure how much useful work robots actually complete in real-world environments. The framework aims to provide a different way of evaluating progress in the robotics industry. Instead of focusing on how many robots are manufactured or deployed, Worken looks at their actual productivity, autonomous working time, […]