- The Expedition A3 can play licensed songs through voice commands without a phone or external speaker
- The integration is being tested at Chimelong Spaceship, where AgiBot has deployed more than 300 robots
Shanghai-based humanoid robot maker AgiBot (智元机器人) has integrated NetEase Cloud Music into its Expedition A3 humanoid robot, allowing users to play licensed songs through natural-language voice commands without connecting a phone or external speaker.
The system-level integration, which goes live on Octember 15, connects NetEase Cloud Music’s music library, account authentication and playback controls directly with the robot’s interaction system.
Users can simply ask the A3 to play a song by name or artist, with cloud-based authentication completed automatically before playback.
The companies have optimized the system for noisy environments such as shopping malls, outdoor venues and theme parks.
Music meets robots
Testing has covered voice activation in noisy settings, weak-network retries, simultaneous requests from multiple users and continuous multi-turn conversations.
AgiBot has deployed more than 300 robots across the Chimelong Spaceship theme park in Hengqin, Zhuhai, with some locations now testing the A3’s music-interaction capabilities.
The company said family visitors have shown strong interest in voice-based song requests, with music-enabled locations recording longer average stays and more user-initiated conversations than conventional display-only spots.
The music integration is also intended to support broader interaction between music and robot movement.
From songs to movement
AgiBot is developing a generative “music-to-gesture” model that can analyze rhythm and song structure and generate movements involving the robot’s head, arms and gait.
This potentially creates a loop from listening to music to understanding it and choreographing movements.
The company also plans to add AI DJ and interactive sing-along features to its humanoid models. AI DJ would select and transition between songs based on the atmosphere and audience.
In the meantime, the sing-along function would use NetEase Cloud Music’s licensed catalog to enable users and robots to alternate lines, according to AgiBot.
Beyond static demos
The partnership marks another step in AgiBot’s effort to move humanoid robots beyond static demonstrations and into sustained interaction with consumers.
Chimelong has hundreds of robots operating across entertainment and visitor-service scenarios.
This gives AgiBot a large-scale environment to test whether such features can drive longer and more frequent human-robot interactions.
Header image credit: AgiBot’s official WeChat
