UBTECH Robotics News
Latest UBTECH Robotics news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $2B raised. 11 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About UBTECH Robotics
UBTECH Robotics Corp is a Chinese humanoid and AI robotics company founded in 2012 in Shenzhen by Zhou Jian. UBTECH develops a range of products from consumer educational robots to the Walker S series of bipedal humanoid robots, which it is piloting in Chinese auto factories including BYD, NIO and Geely. The company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in December 2023.Key facts
Products by UBTECH Robotics
- Walker S2 (Robot, 2025) — Walker S2 is UBTECH's mass-production industrial humanoid robot and the world's first humanoid with a fully autonomous hot-swappable battery system, able to rep...
- UWORLD U1 Series (Robot, 2026) — Full-size ultra-bionic consumer humanoid line unveiled June 30, 2026, in three models: the U1 Lite semi-torso edition, the full-body U1 Pro, and the high-dynami...
- Cruzr (Robot, 2018) — UBTECH's commercial service humanoid robot series used for reception, guiding, retail and material-handling tasks. Cruzr Y1 and Cruzr S2 variants act as on-line...
- Walker C1 (Robot, 2026) — Walker C1 is UBTECH's commercial humanoid platform derived from the Walker S industrial line. It is positioned for retail, hospitality, exhibitions and service...
- Walker S (Robot, 2024) — Walker S is UBTECH's industrial humanoid robot platform, being piloted at Chinese automotive plants including BYD, NIO and Geely.
Funding rounds
- Strategic — $1B — 2025 — led by Infini Capital
- IPO — $133M — 2023 — led by China International Capital Corporation
- Series C — $820M — 2018 — led by Tencent
Latest UBTECH Robotics news
- China Freezes Humanoid Robot IPO Rush As Regulators Probe Valuations — Chinese regulators have effectively frozen humanoid robot IPOs, probing whether government-backed data-collection revenue distorts valuations at Unitr...
- UBTECH Names Slovenia's Hiproject Its Exclusive Walker-Series Balkan Distributor — UBTECH walked its Walker C1 humanoid onto the 58th MOS fair in Celje this week, signing a five-country Balkans distribution deal with Slovenian engine...
- UBTECH's Liuzhou Smart Factory Rolls Out One Humanoid Every 10 Minutes — UBTECH inaugurated a 14,000 square meter smart factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi on September 12, 2026, designed to build more than 10,000 Walker S and Cruz...
- UBTECH Fires Up World's First 10,000-Unit Humanoid Robot Factory In Liuzhou — UBTECH switched on a Siemens-built super smart factory in Liuzhou that produces a Walker S or Cruzr humanoid every 10 minutes, with annual capacity of...
- UBTech Starts Shipping UWORLD U1 Bionic Humanoid Companion In Mid-September After 13,000 Pre-Orders — UBTech begins mid-September deliveries of its 88-DOF UWORLD U1 humanoid, targeting China's 90M solo adults and 118M empty-nest seniors with emotional-...
- UBTECH, Galbot, AGIBOT Lock In Factory Orders As VLA Models Reset China Humanoid Race — As Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games ends, UBTECH, Galbot and AGIBOT hold hundred-million-dollar factory orders from BYD, Foxconn, CATL and...
- BASiC Semiconductor And UBTECH Ink SiC Power-Device Pact For Humanoid Robots — Hong Kong-listed BASiC Semiconductor (9971.HK) and Walker S2 maker UBTECH Robotics will co-develop silicon-carbide power electronics for humanoid robo...
- UBTECH and Shenhao Team to Deploy Humanoids on State Grid Substations — UBTECH Robotics and Hangzhou Shenhao Technology signed a strategic partnership in Shenzhen to jointly deploy humanoid robots into State Grid and China...
- UBTECH Unveils UWORLD U1 Consumer Humanoids With 13,361 Orders — UBTECH has launched the UWORLD U1 Series, billed as the world's first mass-produced full-size ultra-bionic humanoid, with three models priced from RMB...
- Morgan Stanley Doubles China Humanoid Robot Shipment Forecast — Morgan Stanley has nearly doubled its 2026 forecast for China's humanoid robot shipments to 50,000 units, citing faster-than-expected commercializatio...
- UBTECH Rolls Out 1,000th Walker S2 Humanoid as Production Scales — UBTECH has produced its 1,000th Walker S2 humanoid, with 500+ units deployed and orders topping 800 million yuan as the autonomous battery-swap robot...