UBTech Walker S
UBTech Robotics
Industrial humanoid deployed on automotive assembly lines, predecessor to the Walker S2.
- Origin
- Shenzhen, China
- Announced
- February 2024[1]
- Configurations
- varies
- Price
- Not publicly priced
LineageSucceeded by UBTech Walker S2
UBTech Walker S, full body, standing
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Commercial record
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Pricing
Not publicly priced
UBTech has not published pricing for the Walker S; units are deployed through enterprise sales and a partner program. No price figure is carried on this record.
Specifications
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Specifications vary by configuration. Each value is attributed to its source; figures marked for EDU configurations differ from the base unit.
Neutral analysis
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Overview
The Walker S is UBTech Robotics' industrial humanoid, first deployed onto NIO's assembly line in Hefei in February 2024 and the direct predecessor to the Walker S2. It has been piloted or contracted across several automakers, including NIO, Zeekr (via the lighter Walker S Lite), Dongfeng Liuzhou, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao, and Geely. The S series also includes the Walker S1 and Walker S Lite as contemporaneous variants, not yet catalogued in this index. UBTech has not published a clean mass figure for the Walker S; figures circulating as the platform's weight trace to the original 2018 Walker, so no weight is carried on this record.
Strengths
- Deployed on real automotive assembly lines beginning with NIO's Hefei plant in February 2024.
- Cooperation agreements spanning multiple automakers, including Dongfeng Liuzhou, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao, and Geely.
- Whole-body force feedback with 6-axis force sensors for assembly-line manipulation.
- U-SLAM 3D semantic navigation with 6D object pose estimation.
- ROSA 2.0 software stack on ROS 2 with LLM task planning and factory MES integration.
Considerations
- UBTech has not published a mass figure for the Walker S; weights circulating for the platform trace to the original 2018 Walker, so this record carries none.
- Compute and battery specifications are unconfirmed for this model and are not carried here.
- UBTech has not published a degree-of-freedom breakdown, arm configuration, per-arm payload, or detailed software-stack specifications for the Walker S. Figures for these circulating in secondary sources cannot be independently verified for this model, so they are not recorded here.
- UBTech publishes no pricing for the Walker S; units are deployed through enterprise sales and a partner program.
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Verifiable
Sources.
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- [1]CnEVPost, NIO Plant Deployment
https://cnevpost.com/2024/02/23/nio-testing-use-of-humanoid-robots-in-plant/
Independent EV-industry coverage; source for the announce date and the NIO deployment.
- [2]TechEBlog, Walker S at NIO
https://www.techeblog.com/ubtech-walker-s-humanoid-robot-nio-production-line-ev/
Reporting source for the announcement and NIO deployment; not used for physical specifications.
- [3]UBTech Robotics, Official Announcement (X)
https://x.com/UBTECHRobotics/status/1762737848430829962
Manufacturer announcement of the NIO deployment.
- [4]QVIRO, Walker S Specifications
https://qviro.com/product/ubtech-robotics/walker-s/specifications
Independent marketplace specification listing; source for the height, DoF, force-feedback, sensing, and AI figures.
- [5]KrASIA, Humanoids in Automaking
https://kr-asia.com/lab-to-market-humanoid-robots-poised-for-debut-in-automaking-industry
Independent industry coverage; corroborates the Dongfeng Liuzhou and FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao agreements.
- [6]CnEVPost, Zeekr Pilot
https://cnevpost.com/2024/08/05/zeekr-piloting-use-humanoid-robots-in-factory/
Independent coverage; source for the Zeekr (Walker S Lite) pilot and the Geely agreement.
Cite this record
The Rivet Index. "UBTech Walker S." RID-000025. https://rivetindex.com/r/RID-000025