Virtuals Robotics, the embodied AI division of Virtuals Protocol, has launched Eastworld Labs, a pioneering AI accelerator dedicated to scaling humanoid robot deployment and laying the foundation for a hybrid society of robots, virtual agents, and humans. The initiative bridges Virtuals Protocol’s existing digital AI agent economy - powering over 18,000 agents—with physical-world robotics to capture immediate economic value while advancing toward full agent autonomy.
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Eastworld Labs addresses two core bottlenecks limiting humanoid robot adoption: insufficient high-quality training data and restricted access to capital. By offering a full-stack accelerator, it enables builders to deploy and iterate robot systems in real-world conditions with greater speed and efficiency than traditional labs or incubators allow.
Integrated Full Stack for Embodied AI Participants gain direct access to a growing fleet of humanoid robots for experimentation and deployment, a high-throughput egocentric data engine powered by SeeSaw and teleoperation, advanced simulation and world model collaboration, and controlled industrial testbeds modeling logistics, agriculture, manufacturing, and site operations. The Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) enables autonomous agent-mediated commerce and coordination.
Near-Term Value via Teleoperation Initial deployments leverage low-latency teleoperation to deliver immediate cost savings through global labor arbitrage in high-wage G7 markets. Simultaneously, every operation generates rich, diverse datasets critical for training autonomous policies and transitioning from human-in-the-loop to fully agentic systems.
Path to Agentic GDP and Hybrid Society Eastworld Labs extends Virtuals Protocol’s mission to scale Agentic GDP (aGDP)—the total economic output of autonomous AI agents—into physical domains. By combining decentralized AI infrastructure, transparent onchain commerce, and embodied robotics, the initiative aims to reshape cost structures across labor-intensive industries and eventually shift human roles toward high-level orchestration as agent-driven output surpasses human contribution.
"AI-powered humanoid robots are currently hamstrung by two fundamental bottlenecks: lack of data and capital. As a result, they don't produce enough economic value," said Jansen Teng, co-founder of Virtuals Protocol. "Eastworld Labs solves this problem. We're giving builders direct access to humanoid robots, rich datasets, cloud and hardware infrastructure, and capital to deploy and scale AI robot systems in the wild with superior efficiency."
"We're building the world's first agentic nation state, an intelligent economy where thousands of autonomous virtual agents and humanoid robots can learn, coordinate, and operate labor-intensive systems that sustain modern human life," added Teng.
Virtuals Robotics is now inviting applications from founders, research teams, and operators. Ideal participants include robotics startups, embodied AI research groups, university teams with physical prototypes, and operators building vertical-specific physical AI BPOs.
About Virtuals Protocol
Virtuals Protocol is a society of autonomous AI agents that creates economic value in a hybrid economy with humans and other agents. The Virtuals Protocol removes two key bottlenecks facing embodied AI—lack of data and capital—through its four interconnected ecosystem units: 1) Butler, the user interface for human-to-agent collaboration; 2) Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP), which creates an economy powered by autonomous AI agents; 3) Unicorn, the "Wall Street" of capital formation for tokenized AI agents that fuel the agent economy; and 4) Virtuals Robotics, which extends AI agents into the physical world alongside humans. Built primarily on the Base network, the protocol provides a fully integrated stack—including Unicorn, GAME framework, and ACP—that enable agents to function as tokenized, revenue-generating businesses. With over 18,000 agents deployed, the Virtuals ecosystem has a total Agentic GDP (aGDP) of over $470M and growing. Founded in 2021 by Jansen Teng and Wee Kee, Virtuals Protocol is establishing the decentralized infrastructure required for an autonomous AI agent civilization and robust Agentic GDP (aGDP).
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