Alibaba Group launched its first four-legged robot through its Amap division on April 15, 2026. The device competes with products from Unitree and Tesla, with a humanoid version currently in development. This move marks Alibaba’s formal entry into the robotics industry to capitalize on growing automation demand.
Cainiao, Alibaba’s logistics arm, introduced ZeeBot to improve warehouse efficiency through rapid rack climbing.
The company also released Qwen3.6-Plus, an agentic multimodal language model for enterprise users. This AI handles complex engineering and visual tasks for cloud, e-commerce, and software clients.