Amap, Alibaba’s mapping platform, debuted its quadruped robot Tutu at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon. The company said Tutu is designed to guide visually impaired users through complex open environments without preset routes or remote control, and demonstrated the robot navigating through crowds and obstacles at the event.
Amap said Tutu is powered by its in-house ABot technology framework, which combines spatial data, embodied AI models, and agent-based execution. The company has also open-sourced its ABot-M0 model as part of a broader push into robotics. The launch adds to Amap’s wider accessibility efforts, after it introduced wheelchair navigation in 2022 and visually impaired navigation in 2024. [TechNode reporting]