UBTECH’s Liuzhou Super Smart Factory Builds a Humanoid Robot Every Ten Minutes

UBTECH Robotics commissioned its Industrial Humanoid Robot Super Smart Factory in Liuzhou, in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on September 12, 2026, with a line timed to finish one industrial humanoid every ten minutes and a planned yearly output above 10,000 machines.

Fourteen thousand square meters of floor and 13.8 meters of height now hold a mixed assembly layout that skips fixed overhead conveyor chains. Instead, you’ve got rotating workbenches, collaborative arms, power assist manipulators, and self-docking carts all jumbled together in the same space, the same space that builds the bipedal Walker S units and wheeled Cruzr models, without having to rip the entire line down to switch between them.

Cruzr Y1 and Cruzr S2 machines equipped with 3D vision are busy removing parts from pallets, stacking totes, loading stations, and carrying kits across the floor. Humans are no longer running around like headless chickens fetching parts for the machines; instead, automated forklifts, guided vehicles, and unmanned logistics trolleys ferry all that sub-assembly, final assembly, testing, and storage around the place, and as a nice little bonus, the same robot families that do all the heavy lifting are also the ones that come off the production line, hence the phrase ‘robots building robots’.

Each Walker S chassis requires more than 2000 screws, with over 50 different sizes. Those automated torque stations are working long hours, feeding fasteners, ensuring the depth and angle are correct, and recording all of this information for safekeeping. That way, if a bolt goes missing or is stripped somewhere along the path, it will be detected in the system before the following station can begin work. The dollies are all equipped with RFID tags that link the chassis serial number to the batch of parts used to build it.

Once a machine is finished, it goes through a four-hour or more whole-unit test, checking joints, gait balance, and payload stability, followed by a nice spin through an automotive-grade lighting tunnel to make sure the seams, joint covers, and body panels are all looking ship-shape, with a nice 360-degree view. All of this is taking place in a tiny high-bay warehouse measuring only 65m2 yet including 112 finished robots. They claim to have used floor space more efficiently than a flat store of the same size, possibly by 50%.

Siemens Digital Industries Software assisted UBTECH in planning the site using a full-scale digital twin, as they modeled all the cart traffic, empty tote returns, and buffer times so they could figure out the layout before they even started building, and now, UBTECH calls this system the “smart brain” of the operation, and it’s in charge of scheduling work orders, moving materials around, and checking quality, and even stamps each robot with a serial number that follows that fastener right through to the point at which it finally leaves the plant.

The main biped, the Walker S2, stands 176cm tall and weighs approximately 70kg. It has 52 degrees of freedom and can walk at up to 2 meters per second while lifting 15 kilograms with each arm. The Cruzr models, on the other hand, remain on wheels and handle all of the plant’s hauling, which formerly required a crew of workers with trolleys. The early Walker units have already undergone testing at nearby auto manufacturers such as Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor and SAIC-GM-Wuling, and they have been working hard for a variety of companies including BYD, Geely, Foxconn, and SF Express.

Company vice president Pang Jianxin has said mass production of these complex parts would be extremely difficult without China’s component network, unless costs rose enough to erase the advantage. More than 90 percent of Walker S2 parts come from inside the country, and UBTECH points to that dense supplier base, plus years of factory use cases, as the reason a line of this size could go from a thousand-unit mark to a ten-thousand-unit plant in less than nine months.
China’s wider robot output keeps rising on its own. July 2026 industrial robot production reached 98,677 units, up 30.2 percent from a year earlier, and the first seven months of the year totaled 635,056 units, up 28.5 percent.