TechFlow news, December 19 — OpenMind and Circle recently announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch the world's first payment infrastructure designed for autonomous agents and real-world embodied AI. By integrating USDC stablecoin with OpenMind's x402 protocol module, this collaboration enables robots and AI agents to make direct payments for energy, services, and data in the physical world.
This week, Circle released a demonstration video on X showing a robot completing self-charging without battery replacement and making end-to-end payments using USDC.
The OpenMind team stated that this feature will first be piloted in Silicon Valley and will provide a universal, convenient, and accessible on-chain payment solution for widespread deployment of embodied intelligence, supporting long-duration, automated operation of intelligent agents and their gradual integration into daily human life.
