Agibot to Launch “Qingtian Rent” Platform on December 22, Bringing the ‘Rent-a-Robot’ Model to China
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Agibot is set to launch “Qingtian Rent,” a nationwide robot rental platform designed to make robots as easy to rent as power banks.
Agibot, a leading embodied intelligence startup, announced today that it will host the China Robotics Leasing Ecosystem Summit in Shanghai on December 22, where it will officially unveil its new platform, “Qingtian Rent.” The move signals a strategic shift from a hardware-only sales model toward a more ecosystem-driven robot rental service.
According to Agibot, the core vision behind Qingtian Rent is to transform today’s high-barrier robot deployment scenarios into a convenient, on-demand rental experience, similar to renting a shared power bank. Through the platform, Agibot aims to integrate the entire value chain—including capital providers, robot manufacturers, content and application developers, logistics partners, and insurance services—to build a nationwide network of robot rental nodes across China.
On the supply side, the platform will not be limited to Agibot’s own products. Other embodied intelligence robot makers, such as Accelerated Evolution, are expected to join Qingtian Rent, offering a broader range of robots and modular skill packages. This multi-vendor approach is designed to address the industry’s current challenge of limited product diversity.
To accelerate market adoption, Qingtian Rent plans to roll out a “zero-cost trial program.” Early service providers and users will be able to validate the commercial viability of robots-as-a-service (RaaS) through a full-lifecycle co-creation model, significantly lowering the cost of experimentation.
The upcoming summit is widely viewed as a key industry milestone, representing one of the most ambitious attempts yet to unlock scalable commercialization paths for embodied intelligence and robotics.
