SenseTime co-founder’s ACE Robotics releases model for robot spatial perception

What happened: ACE Robotics, founded by SenseTime co-founder Xiaogang Wang, released the ACE-Brain-0.6 embodied AI model on October 19, built by supervised fine-tuning of Qwen3.5-9B for object identification, image localization, and robot interaction points. Key numbers: Trained on about 1 million spatial-grounding samples. Outperformed GPT-6 Astra on six of eight grounding benchmarks. Why it matters: The company's reported evaluations place its model ahead of GPT-6 Astra on most grounding benchmarks, including the real-robot-scenario RobotGrounding test.

ACE Robotics, founded by SenseTime co-founder Xiaogang Wang, released the ACE-Brain-0.6 embodied AI model on October 19, built by supervised fine-tuning of Qwen3.5-9B for object identification, image localization, and robot interaction points.

The company's reported evaluations place its model ahead of GPT-6 Astra on most grounding benchmarks, including the real-robot-scenario RobotGrounding test.