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Asiabots Limited is a Hong Kong-based technology company with operations spanning Taiwan, Macau, and Canada, specialising in AI-driven digital human solutions marketed primarily under the A.I. Ambassador (智能客服大使) brand. The company's flagship offering is a generative AI-powered virtual human service ambassador designed for deployment across customer service, government, healthcare, and retail contexts, with its product line evolving through successive generations — including a fifth-generation hyper-realistic digital human named Aurora. Asiabots offers three distinct visual styles for its digital human characters, ranging from animation (2.5D) to photorealistic rendering, and integrates these with its Geniichat conversational AI engine, which supports over 20 languages and is positioned for enterprise and government deployment across the Asia-Pacific region. Among its most prominent implementations is a collaboration with Hong Kong Customs to develop an AI-powered virtual customs service ambassador, and a separate deployment within Hong Kong's healthcare sector showcased at the CUHK Medical Centre. The company won the Smart Living Partnership Award 2023/24, jointly presented by ETnet and Cyberport, for its AI virtual ambassador service, and has exhibited at international events including InnoEx, Collision, and the ATLife assistive technology expo in Taiwan. Its Taiwan branch, operating under the name Asiabots Formosa (亞博福爾摩沙), focuses on conversational AI integration for cinema and retail digital transformation. Asiabots has also engaged internationally, with deployments referenced in connection with the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce.