The world's first intelligent manufacturing facility for humanoid robots designed for a 10,000-unit capacity has begun operating in Liuzhou, Guangxi, UBTECH Robotics, China's humanoid robot developer, announced, noting that the factory can roll out one industrial humanoid robot every 10 minutes. The project relies on intelligent planning through industrial simulation systems and scheduling by a digital “smart brain,” truly realizing the manufacturing model of “robots building robots.” This pulls Chinese humanoid robots from lab prototypes and small-batch trial production into a brand-new stage of large-scale intelligent manufacturing, said the company. According to UBTECH, the plant covers 14,000 square meters and primarily produces the Walker S series and Cruzr series of embodied intelligent industrial humanoid robots.
Foreign enterprises also participated in the construction of the smart plant, as it was jointly built by UBTECH and Siemens Digital Industries Software. Full-process one-item-one-code traceability is enabled through each robot's unique serial number. In this factory, robots serve both as products and as tools, providing the entire industry with a replicable mass-production template. On the production front line, embodied intelligent industrial humanoid robots such as the Cruzr Y1 and Cruzr S2 participate in depalletizing, palletizing, loading, and material handling. Final assembly employs collaborative robots, power-assist manipulators, unmanned logistics vehicles, and 360-degree rotating worktables that enable multi-angle precision assembly in place, supporting flexible mixed-model production of multiple robot types. For quality inspection, each complete robot undergoes more than four hours of whole-machine testing and passes through an automotive-grade lighting inspection tunnel for 360-degree dead-angle-free appearance screening.
In the warehousing and logistics segment, UBTECH has independently developed the industry's first fully automated stereoscopic warehouse for humanoid robots. Occupying only 65 square meters, it can store 112 robots and improves space utilization by more than 50%. Moreover, a full-domain intelligent logistics matrix composed of automatic guided vehicles, unmanned forklifts, and logistics vehicles connects the entire chain of sub-assembly, final assembly, testing, and storage. Pang Jianxin, Vice President of UBTECH, said in an earlier interview with the Global Times that mass production is inseparable from the support of China's supply chain. "Without the Chinese supply chain, mass-producing complex components would be extremely difficult unless cost advantages were completely sacrificed," Pang noted.
In July, China's industrial robot output reached 98,677 units, representing a year-on-year increase of 30.2%. From January to July, production totaled 635,056 units, up 28.5%, the Global Times reports.
