PanguBot
PanguBot is the training crawler operated by Huawei, the Chinese technology giant. It visits publicly accessible websites and collects their content so Huawei's PanGu AI model can learn from it. PanGu is not yet widely used by consumers in Western markets, so the direct impact on your business visibility remains limited for now. That said, allowing it to crawl your site means your content could be included in future versions of Huawei's AI products — which may matter if those products gain traction over time. As of June 2026, only 6% of top websites block it.
- User-agent
PanguBotMozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; PanguBot;pangubot@huawei.com)- Does it respect robots.txt?
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://knownagents.com/agents/pangubot
How to allow it in your robots.txt
User-agent: PanguBot
Allow: /How to block it (not recommended)
User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /Frequently asked questions
Should I block PanguBot?
It depends on your priorities. Since PanGu is not yet a mainstream AI assistant in European or US markets, blocking it has no effect on your visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. If you want to control who trains on your content, adding it to your robots.txt is a low-cost, low-risk decision. If you prefer to keep all future AI doors open, letting it through is equally reasonable.
Does PanguBot affect my visibility in AI?
Minimally, for now. If Huawei's AI products grow in your target market, having your content in their training data could help your business appear in their answers. But PanGu is not among the models your potential customers are likely using today, so the practical impact on enquiries or sales is negligible at this stage.
How do I know if PanguBot is visiting my site?
Check your server access logs or a tool like Cloudflare for requests that include «PanguBot» or the email «pangubot@huawei.com» in the user agent string. If that sounds technical, your hosting provider's support team can help you find it.