Agibot Deploys 100 Lingxi X2 Robots as Sales Staff in 100 ASD Stores

This is a notable shift from demo deployments to a full customer-facing retail role at meaningful scale, with the robots handling the entire sales cycle rather than a single scripted task. It puts embodied AI in direct competition with human floor staff — and makes those roles the benchmark to watch. Whether this remains a flagship showcase or becomes a repeatable retail model is the open question, and the signals to track are conversion, customer response, and whether other brands follow.