UBTech Robotics · China · Full-size
Walker S1
An industrial humanoid in paid deployment on real BYD, NIO and Zeekr automotive lines doing inspection, handling and assembly, sold only as an enterprise deployment with no public price.
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6 included|5 not included
Dexterous hands included
Unlike many industrial handling robots that ship with simple grippers, the S1 comes on dual 7-DOF arms with dexterous multi-finger hands as standard. That is what lets it do the manipulation UBTech demos: sorting, screwdriving, trim and badge fitting, not just pick-and-place with a claw.
In the crate
Reality check
This is one of the few humanoids with a real track record of paid factory deployment rather than a stage demo, but you cannot just buy one: there is no list price, no cart, and no out-of-box autonomy. It is a quote-only enterprise deployment that only earns its keep after UBTech integrates and trains it on your line.
Can you get one, and what will it cost?
A planning estimate with machine, freight, duty, and tax shown separately.
You cannot order the Walker S1 today: it is b2b only.
This is not a robot an individual orders. It goes to manufacturers running assembly lines: BYD, NIO, Zeekr/Geely, plus trials at Foxconn and SF Express. Acquisition is a sales conversation and a deployment engagement, not a checkout.
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Businesses and institutions only. Confirm eligibility and configuration with the maker.
This is not a robot an individual orders. It goes to manufacturers running assembly lines: BYD, NIO, Zeekr/Geely, plus trials at Foxconn and SF Express. Acquisition is a sales conversation and a deployment engagement, not a checkout.
Price notes: UBTech does not publish a list price for the S1. It sells enterprise-to-enterprise by inquiry, bundled into a deployment contract, not off a spec page. UBTech has reported cumulative Walker-series orders exceeding 800M yuan (roughly $112M) and a target of delivering around 500 industrial humanoid units within the year (framed largely around Walker S2 mass production), but it has never published a per-unit S1 figure. For scale, resellers list the newer Walker S2 in the rough range of $115k to $180k depending on configuration and channel; a $75k S1 number circulates on aggregator sites but is an unverified estimate, not a UBTech quote. Treat any single dollar figure you see as a guess until UBTech quotes you.
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How the Walker S1 rates
Editorial ratings based on listed specifications and sales availability. They do not measure task performance, autonomy, or reliability.
- Class
- Frontier machineA cutting-edge full-scale humanoid aimed at real work. Mostly enterprise, or still proving out.
- CapabilityHardware specification indicators
- 5/5
- Baseline: any humanoid+1
- Degrees of freedom: 41 DOF+2
- Dexterity: dexterous hands included+1
- Scale: 172 cm tall+0.75
Key specifications
Height
172 cm
Width
n/a
Depth
n/a
Weight
76 kg
Degrees of freedom
41
Battery
~120 min
Payload
15 kg
Top speed
0.83 m/s
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Size to scale
Drawn next to a 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) person. Every robot on the site uses this same reference, so you can trust the comparison at a glance.
Walker S1: 172 cm / 5 ft 8 in, 76 kg
What it does on day onewith zero programming
Nothing useful the day a crate arrives, and that is the honest point: the S1 is not a plug-in appliance. Its value shows up only after an integration project where UBTech trains it on your specific stations and wires it into your logistics vehicles and manufacturing system. What it does after that setup is real factory work: visual quality inspection, carrying and sorting parts, screwdriving, and component assembly on live automotive lines.
Best for: Automotive and large-scale manufacturers piloting humanoids for real line work (quality inspection, parts handling, sorting, light assembly) alongside their existing AGVs and AMRs, with an integration team and a procurement budget.
What it takes to developskills, gear, and SDK access
Built for developers and integrators, not tinkerers. It exposes ROS and Android with open secondary-development interfaces and documentation from the hardware up, so a robotics/automation team can program new skills. Doing anything with it assumes industrial-integration engineering: teleoperation and demonstration data collection, skill training, and hooking into plant systems. Fleet behavior runs through UBTech's BrainNet swarm framework.
SDK access: Open secondary development: the Walker platform runs ROS and Android with open interfaces and documentation, and UBTech provides development access from the underlying hardware to upper modules. Multi-robot coordination is handled by UBTech's BrainNet swarm-intelligence framework (a cloud/device super-brain plus per-robot sub-brains), which is what powers the collaborative factory demos, not a self-serve dev tier.
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