IntBot bets the future of humanoids on social intelligence, not kung fu

At GTC 2026, CEO Lei Yang announced that the company‘s IntEng “general social intelligence engine” now supports multiple humanoid and service robots from different hardware vendors. He said this marked a significant step toward hardware-agnostic deployment of socially intelligent robots in real-world environments.

This full-length view of the IntBot humanoid shows its feet, although the robot was stationary and secured to stand for its shift at the GTC26 help desk. | Credit: The Robot Report Today, that stack powers Nilo, a full-body humanoid that works 24/7 as a multilingual concierge in hotel lobbies from New York to Las Vegas, blending on-device perception and body-language generation with cloud LLMs for deeper queries.

“Right now, we already have three hotels across the U.S.,” said Yang. “[We’re at] The Nap York in New York City, and a second one is called Otonomous in Las Vegas, and the third one is a Marriott Hotel in Tulsa, Okla. And all of these three robots operate 24/7, basically. They work alongside their human staff members, but IntBot offers add-on functions to augment what the human staff, concierge, or [other] people can do.” Home

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