AgiBot's first fleet Worken figure is 62,000 hours, from a maker that has built 20,000 robots

AgiBot says its robots have now logged more than 62,000 hours of Worken, the "effective intelligent working hours" unit it proposed at its Innovation Day on Oct. 29. The company gave the figure at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, which opened on Nov. 5, and calculated it on the common standard it applies to sites running routinely as of October, the Shanghai Observer reported.

When AgiBot proposed the unit, it gave no number for its own fleet. The first one is small next to its output. AgiBot has built more than 20,000 robots, according to MyDrivers; spread across all of them, 62,000 hours is about three hours each. Measured against its best-documented site, the total is roughly one month's work from 400 robots. Worken's first reading shows how few AgiBot robots hold full-time jobs, more than how well they do them.

A hospital guide turned 170 hours into 153

That site is one of two AgiBot showed for the first time at the expo. At Peking University People's Hospital in Beijing, a single Lingxi X2 working as a patient guide ran 170 hours on its own in October and logged 153 Worken, the Shanghai Observer reported. It directs patients to departments, answers questions about how a visit works and walks people to where they need to go. About 90% of its running time counted as effective work. The second new site is a hotel lobby, where an Expedition A3 Ultra greets guests, answers routine questions and delivers items.

The 62,000 hours come from five kinds of work: tourism and entertainment, urban transit, retail, factory work and public services. Tourism contributes the most, led by Expedition A3 and Genie G2 robots giving tours and guiding crowds at Chimelong in Zhuhai. In Guangzhou, 120 Genie G2 humanoid robots are spread across several metro stations, steering passengers through security checks and answering questions about trips.

Worken leaves out robots that were never meant to work shifts

The strongest case against that reading is that Worken, by design, counts only robots in routine jobs. A robot sold for research or development was never going to log hours, and AgiBot did not say when its count started. Even so, the hospital ratio is the number to carry forward. If the 120 metro robots run at anything near 90%, AgiBot's next total will rise with each deployment it signs rather than with each robot it builds.