UBTECH on Sept. 12, 2026, held a ceremony to start production at its Industrial Humanoid Robot Super Smart Factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi, with city leaders and founder and CEO Zhou Jian attending and a Walker S2 industrial humanoid joining in to switch on the production line, according to the Liuzhou Investment Promotion Bureau. The plant is a test of whether makers of humanoids, robots built in a human shape, can move from small workshop batches to mass production.
UBTECH and Liuzhou officials put the plant's planned yearly capacity at more than 10,000, with a line designed to finish one robot every 10 minutes, and present it as a model factory for industrial humanoids at that scale. Planned capacity is not the same as confirmed 2026 shipments. UBTECH bills the plant as "robots building robots," but the city's account does not say how much of the assembly the robots handle.
The plant makes Walker S and Cruzr series robots, according to the city. UBTECH and Siemens jointly built the plant's digital manufacturing system, which the city says is coordinated by a digital "smart brain." According to a news report, each robot takes more than 2,000 screws and gets a unique serial number to trace it, and Siemens Plant Simulation software holds a 1:1 digital copy of the factory.
According to a news report, UBTECH delivered 921 full-size two-legged humanoids in the first half of 2026, and its revenue from full-size humanoids rose 1,445%, with industrial customers accounting for more than 96% of it. The report notes that factory capacity is only as valuable as the orders it can absorb. Filling a plant built for more than 10,000 robots a year is still a bet. The "world's first" label for a factory of this scale comes from UBTECH and the city government.
It is not yet clear whether the Liuzhou line will run near its designed pace through the end of the year, whether customers will buy robots as fast as the plant can make them, or whether the robots' software can handle varied factory work as well as the line turns out hardware. Until UBTECH reports how fully the plant is used and how many robots it ships, the capacity figures remain plans.