LEXSUS robots grill live for 550K viewers, self-correcting failures to prove cross-embodiment AI
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-20
On Sept 16, Chinese startup 乐享科技 (LEXSUS) livestreamed two robots running an outdoor BBQ stand, drawing 5.5M cumulative views. A chef and a waiter robot served three customer groups for nearly an hour, repeatedly failing—dropping enoki mushrooms, handling mid-task drink requests and extra orders—yet self-correcting without any teleoperation, preserving order state and re-sequencing tasks.
- Zero-shot test: follows an August no-edit housework demo; the livestream was staged as a response to accusations of cherry-picked footage.
- Cross-embodiment: the robots were competitor hardware, deliberately chosen to prove the company's 'Yita' generalist embodied model transfers across different bodies, mapping goals to each body's capability limits.
- Brainstem architecture: layered bio-inspired design spanning intent/task planning, perception, motor planning and a 'spinal' layer for force control and collision avoidance, combining active perception, multimodal understanding, streaming memory, motor dynamics and self-iteration.
- Low-cost training: only 4B parameters, trained on 200 hours of human video with zero real-robot data.
- Business thesis: transferable embodied brains may shift industry competition from building more hardware to whose model runs on more bodies.
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