InSpace Technology

InSpace Technology is a Shenzhen, China-headquartered robotics company founded in 2019 by Thomas Tang, a former Vice President at Xiaomi's Ecosystem Chain division and former General Manager at Tencent's CDC unit. The company develops embodied-AI commercial service robots under the XBOT brand, targeting food and beverage retail environments such as malls, offices, airports, and hospitality venues. XBOT's product line centers on autonomous robotic arms that prepare and serve drinks and desserts without human baristas: the XBOT Lite is a dual-arm coffee robot with a footprint of about 2.5 square meters designed as the company's flagship unit for higher-volume locations; the XBOT C3 is a compact single-arm coffee kiosk with a 1.83 square meter footprint aimed at smaller retail spaces; and the XBOT IC60 is a dedicated ice cream and dessert-making robot with a 1.35 square meter footprint. The company describes its systems as AI-native, meaning perception, drink-recipe execution, and operational decisions are handled through on-device processing rather than relying solely on cloud connectivity.

InSpace Technology organizes its business into four segments: AI+ Commercial & Consumer (the XBOT food-service robots), AI+ Smart Mobility, AI+ Education & Entertainment, and AI+ Smart Home, though the XBOT robotic beverage and dessert kiosks represent its most visible commercial deployment to date. As of its most recent public figures, the company reports more than 600 XBOT units deployed across more than 10 markets, having served over 4 million cups of coffee and other drinks, with a stated fleet uptime of 99.4%. The company operates from a Shenzhen headquarters and R&D center and maintains additional operational presence in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong (through its InSpace Hong Kong Limited entity), New York, South Korea, Australia, the UAE, and Japan, reflecting an international commercial rollout strategy for its unmanned beverage kiosks. InSpace Technology's founder previously spent more than a decade scaling consumer technology products at two of China's largest technology companies before starting the company, and the firm positions XBOT as a labor-replacement and consistency solution for high-traffic food and beverage retail locations rather than as a general-purpose humanoid robot platform.