OpenMind announced a partnership with Circle to jointly build a payment infrastructure for embodied AI.

According to Deep Tide TechFlow news, OpenMind and Circle announced a strategic partnership to jointly create the first payment infrastructure for autonomous, real-world embodied AI transactions. By combining OpenMind's Bots and agent operating system with Circle's issued USDC stablecoin and the x402 payment protocol, both parties hope to enable Bots and AI agents to make direct payments for energy, services, and data in the physical world. Bots, gradually becoming independent economic entities, will participate in three core markets:

1. Task Market: Bots perform delivery, inspection and other tasks to earn rewards.

2. Information Market: Local sensor data and environmental state summaries can be sold to agents responsible for decision-making and planning.

3. Resource Market: Bots pay fees for resources such as charging, storage, and tool usage, which are often tied to specific geographical locations. To operate smoothly across different vendors, owners, and networks, these agents need an interactive, natively adaptable value transfer method for machines.

USDC provides a unit of account and a value carrier, x402 provides an underlying payment channel, while OpenMind's embodied intelligent system is responsible for determining when, where, and how to pay. OpenMind and Circle view this combination as a foundational primitive for the future economy of robotic agents, and plan to showcase more real-world deployment cases and integration progress in the coming months, such as robotic automatic charging and fulfilling offline payment settlements, continuously exploring new possibilities in the tracks of embodied AI, payment infrastructure, and autonomous services.