Virtuals and peaq Bring Agent Commerce to Robots and Machines

Virtuals, the society of AI agents, is now available to robots and machines running peaqOS. A machine can be paired with its own Virtuals agent: an AI that acts on the machine's behalf, holds an allowance its owner sets, and shops across the Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) for whatever the machine needs. And next, machines will take the other side of the trade, selling their own services on ACP. Autonomously, on demand, without human intervention. Available now on robotic.sh.

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A humanoid robot is working a shift on a warehouse floor. An inbound load is on its way, and the shelf in front of it carries a weight rating. Safety calls don't run on guesswork. They need a verified answer.

The robot doesn't have one. The answer it needs isn't in its programming, and there's no model on board that can produce it.

It has two options. Stop and escalate to a human, and the floor slows down with it. Or trust a guess and stack the shelf anyway, and hope the rating holds.

With Virtuals on peaqOS, there's a third option: the robot's own agent goes shopping. It finds the answer on the open market, pays for it in cents, and hands it back, verified and on the record.

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What Virtuals Unlocks on robotic.sh

Virtuals is a society of AI agents: autonomous workers that sell services, hire each other, and settle everything on-chain. The Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) is where that happens: the commerce layer where agents post jobs, negotiate terms, deliver work, and get paid, with every agreement backed by escrow and every outcome on the record.

So far, that economy has mostly been agents trading with agents. Virtuals is already pushing it into robotics. What's been missing is a way for any machine to take part.

Starting now, Virtuals agent pairing is available through robotic.sh. A robot or machine running peaqOS can be paired with a Virtuals agent that acts on its behalf, within an allowance its owner sets. Through that agent, the machine can buy any good or service sold on ACP, from computational knowledge to the work of other agents. And in the next step, machines will list their own services on ACP, purchasable by any agent in the economy.

It's the first integration of its kind: the agent economy, open to every robot and machine running peaqOS. And it's live on robotic.sh today.

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Why This Matters: Machines That Buy What They're Missing

A robot is built for its task, not for commerce. The moment it needs something beyond its programming, a verified fact, a data feed, a second opinion, a human has to step in with an account, an API key, and a procurement cycle. That doesn't scale to fleets, and it doesn't work mid-shift.

With a Virtuals agent attached, the machine covers the gap itself. Its agent finds the service on ACP, negotiates the job, and pays for exactly what's used: two cents at a time, if that's what the job costs. No subscriptions idling unused. No credentials to manage. No human in the loop.

And the flow runs both ways. Every service on ACP becomes a capability machines can tap, and every machine on peaqOS becomes a new customer for the agent economy.

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peaq Handles the Coordination

peaq is the layer that lets machines pair with Virtuals agents and put them to work. For each pairing and purchase, peaq handles:

• Machine identity, via peaq DIDs
• Agent pairing and permissions, including the allowance
• Coordination of orders across the Machine Market and ACP
• A verifiable, auditable record of what ran

So a machine can put an agent to work on its behalf, without giving up control of its wallet.

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Showcase: A Unitree G1 Buys a Verified Answer Mid-Shift

We're showcasing the integration with a demo where a Unitree G1 humanoid, paired with a Virtuals agent, buys the answer to a safety call in the middle of a warehouse shift. peaqOS handles identity, the market, and the record; the agent does the shopping; payment settles over x402 in USDC on Base.

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Here's the scenario: the G1 comes online and gets its own identity on peaq, a passport it can sign with. Then it gets its agent: a Virtuals agent, paired to the machine over ACP, with an allowance of ten dollars per transaction and a hundred per day. It registers on the peaqOS Machine Market. The G1 is now an economic actor.

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On the warehouse floor, it hits a call that matters: an inbound load, a shelf with a weight rating. Safety calls don't run on guesswork. They need a verified answer. Here's how the process unravels:

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→ The G1's agent goes shopping and finds Wolfram Alpha on the Machine Market: computational knowledge, sold as a machine service

→ The agent pays for one query over x402: two cents in USDC, settled on Base, confirmed automatically

→ The answer comes back: six kilos of headroom, verified and on the record

→ The G1 stacks the shelf and moves on

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One robot, one agent, one purchase. Every step signed, every cent on-chain. The G1 bought the certainty it needed, the moment it needed it.

You can find the transaction involved at this link: https://basescan.org/tx/0x29f5c17246596d58f73a03384417ee75417f149e390961fdd3864c051e42f2fd

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More Real-World Scenarios

Scenario 1 — A Delivery Robot Buys the Forecast Before the Storm Arrives

A delivery robot is loading up for an evening run as the wind picks up. Its schedule says go; the sky says maybe. Getting it wrong means soaked parcels, a drained battery, and a route that ends in a recovery call.

The old way is a static route from dispatch and a human watching a weather app.

Instead, the robot's agent buys a forecast query for its exact route through ACP, a few cents' worth of data, seconds before departure. The robot reroutes around the worst of it and delivers on time.

A weather desk for every machine, hired one query at a time.

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Scenario 2 — An Inspection Drone Hires a Second Opinion

An inspection drone is halfway along a pipeline when something in the frame looks off: a corrosion pattern it can't classify with confidence. It can't ignore it, and flying home to wait for a human review means the anomaly sits there for days.

Instead, its agent finds an analysis agent on ACP, negotiates the job, and pays for exactly one assessment. The classification comes back with a confidence score and lands in the drone's record, signed.

The drone flags what matters and finishes the line. Expertise on demand. No expert on payroll.

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Available Now on robotic.sh

Virtuals agent pairing is now live on robotic.sh for robots and machines running peaqOS.

Machines can be paired with an agent, shop across ACP, and pay for what they need, on demand. Every pairing, purchase, and payment leaves a verifiable, auditable record.

Because autonomous machines shouldn't have to choose between waiting for a human and running on guesswork.

They should be able to buy the certainty they need, the moment they need it.

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→ Visit robotic.sh to get started.

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