
X Square's WALL-B sorted 10,000 parcels in five hours at WRC 2026, averaging 1.88 seconds per item. The demo showed the company's 'one model, many applications' approach across household chores, dexterous assembly and live logistics.
BEIJING – X Square Robot put its WALL-B system through a five-hour parcel-sorting challenge at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, the company said. The Shenzhen-based firm's general-purpose AI model handled 10,000 parcels in 5 hours, 14 minutes and 1 second, averaging 1,911 parcels an hour, or about 1.88 seconds per parcel.
The demonstration tested endurance as much as speed. The robots worked with parcels that varied in size, shape, material and position on the conveyor. Each item had to be identified, grasped, oriented and sorted. When a grasp failed or the conveyor shifted, the system corrected and continued. Wang Qian, founder and CEO of X Square Robot, said the company aims to build an AI foundation for the physical world that mirrors what large language models have done in the digital realm – a common intelligence layer that works across different robots, tasks and environments.
On the show floor, that breadth was on display. Two wheeled humanoid robots responded to spoken commands in a mock home setting. They organized household items, retrieved and delivered objects, cleaned, watered plants and handled pet-related chores. Using coordinated two-arm manipulation and obstacle avoidance, the robots moved between rooms. A separate 22-degree-of-freedom, five-fingered dexterous hand unboxed a fan with its view partially blocked by the packaging. The system opened the box, slid the fan out of a confined space, set it on a table, turned it on and visually checked that the blades were spinning. Another dual-arm system fielded natural-language requests from visitors to pick flowers of a specified color and arrange them in a vase. It adjusted its grip for flexible stems and recomputed its motion path when someone moved the vase mid-task.
The logistics line, which X Square said runs around the clock on a live parcel-sorting belt, was the most commercially relevant test. The five-hour public challenge extended what the company first showed in a livestream on Aug. 12. Maintaining the same per-parcel rhythm across thousands of items required consistent vision and grasp cycles without degradation, the kind of endurance that separates a lab demo from a warehouse deployment.
X Square said the WALL-B model will continue integrating with the company's robotic hardware as it expands into home, logistics and industrial applications.
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