Matrix Robotics' MATRIX-3 Debuts as a Tour Guide at China's CIIE

Matrix Robotics' third-generation humanoid worked the expo floor in Shanghai as an unscripted tour guide.

Matrix Robotics' third-generation humanoid robot, MATRIX-3, made its public debut this week at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai - not on a stage, but on the job, as an intelligent tour guide.

The robot worked the expo floor without a script. It promoted exhibits and answered visitors in a crowded, noisy hall, holding conversations and reading the room on its own. The company says the system runs on its self-developed WAVE physical world base model, which drives both dialogue and movement.

On hardware, MATRIX-3 stands 1.70 meters tall and weighs 65 kilograms. Its dexterous hand has 27 joints, and Matrix Robotics says it can sense forces as light as 0.1 newtons.

The debut is a small but telling marker for where humanoids are headed in China: out of the demo hall and into public service - expos, museums, lobbies - where the test is not a choreographed routine but a stranger walking up and asking a question.