China's Ubtech Opens Plant Making a Humanoid Robot Every 10 Minutes

A new UBTECH smart factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi, has begun operating with an annual capacity of 10,000 humanoid robots - roughly one unit every ten minutes - using robots to build robots. The 14,000-square-meter, 13.8-meter-tall facility produces Walker S and Cruzr series machines and was developed with Siemens Digital Industries Software. Production uses humanoid units like the Cruzr Y1 and S2 for unloading, stacking and transport, while final assembly relies on collaborative robots synchronized with human movement, remote manipulators, automated guided vehicles and 360-degree rotating workbenches. Each robot undergoes more than four hours of full-unit testing and passes an automotive-grade 360-degree exterior inspection. UBTECH also deployed what it calls the industry’s first fully automated three-dimensional warehouse that stores 112 robots in 65 square meters, boosting space utilization by over 50%, supported by AGVs, unmanned forklifts and freight vehicles.

The factory marks a shift from pilot runs to large-scale smart manufacturing, enabled by China’s dense component supply chain and accumulated engineering expertise, UBTECH argues. National output of industrial robots has jumped - July production reached 98,677 units (up 30.2% year-on-year) and January-July totaled 635,056 (up 28.5%). Investment in training data is advancing in parallel: RoboMIND, an open-source dataset, has surpassed 20 million downloads and includes more than 300,000 motion trajectories and data from 700+ real-world tasks, while a 6,000-square-meter Beijing training center replicates 30 environments with 150 robots and has supplied roughly 30,000 hours of high-quality data to outside groups.