OpenMind partners with Circle to launch AI payment infrastructure, enabling robots to achieve autonomous economic cycles

【BitPush】OpenMind and Circle’s collaboration is indeed interesting. The two companies have jointly launched a payment system aimed at AI agents and embodied robots, with the core being the integration of USDC stablecoin and OpenMind’s x402 protocol module, enabling robots to directly complete energy, service, and data transaction settlements in the real world.

Some time ago, Circle released a demo on social media showing a robot charging itself and completing the entire payment process via USDC, which looked very smooth. The significance behind this is substantial—robots can self-charge without changing batteries, effectively gaining a true “self-sustaining capability.”

The OpenMind team plans to pilot this scheme in Silicon Valley first, then gradually expand outward. Their goal is clear: to provide a universal, convenient on-chain payment solution for the large-scale application of embodied AI in daily life. This way, intelligent agents can achieve longer endurance and fully automatic operation, gradually integrating into human daily ecosystems. In simple terms, it’s about giving AI genuine economic autonomy.