Virtuals Protocol has established Eastworld Labs, an accelerator focused on expanding the deployment of humanoid robots in commercial environments. The initiative, developed under the company’s embodied AI division, Virtuals Robotics, is intended to integrate physical robotics infrastructure with artificial intelligence agents and on-chain funding mechanisms.
The accelerator is designed to support founders building applications for humanoid robots by providing access to hardware, datasets, cloud infrastructure and capital. According to the company, Eastworld Labs will initially focus on using humanoid robots combined with low-latency teleoperation to address labor cost differentials in G7 economies, while generating operational data to support the development of autonomous systems.
Jansen Teng, co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, said AI-powered humanoid robots face constraints related to data availability and funding. “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,” Teng said. “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.”
Eastworld Labs provides access to a fleet of more than 30 full-sized humanoid robots, including Unitree G1 platforms, for experimentation and deployment. The accelerator also operates a data pipeline that incorporates teleoperation and a system referred to as SeeSaw, which the company said has recorded more than 500,000 tasks to date to support humanoid training. In addition, the initiative includes simulation tools, visual-language-action models, and physical testing environments that replicate industrial settings such as logistics, agriculture, manufacturing and site operations.
The company stated that the accelerator combines robotics infrastructure with funding, governance mechanisms and its Agent Commerce Protocol, described as a commerce protocol and marketplace for autonomous AI agents. Eastworld Labs is intended to enable collaboration between human operators and AI agents within controlled testbeds before broader commercial deployment.
In the near term, the company expects many deployments to rely on teleoperation to achieve cost savings while building datasets to support increased autonomy. Teng described the broader ambition as creating an integrated economic system in which virtual agents and humanoid robots operate alongside humans. “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,” he said.
Eastworld Labs forms part of Virtuals Protocol’s strategy to expand what it calls Agentic GDP, defined by the company as the total economic value generated by autonomous AI agents. Virtuals Protocol, founded in 2021 by Teng and Wee Kee, operates a network of AI agents and reports that more than 18,000 agents have been deployed across its ecosystem. The company said the ecosystem’s Agentic GDP exceeds $470 million.
The accelerator is expected to begin accepting applications from founders and research teams later in the first quarter. Target participants include robotics startups focused on humanoid systems, research groups working on embodied AI and control systems, university teams with physical prototypes, and operators developing automation-focused business models in specific industry verticals.
