European aerospace giant Airbus has purchased UBTech’s Walker S2 humanoid robots for use at its aircraft manufacturing plants.

Their partnership will trial Walker S2 humanoid robots in aircraft manufacturing, signalling a global push into industrial ...

The Walker S2 can also hot-swap its own batteries, and UBTech said in November of 2025 it was the first humanoid robot to be ...

The deal follows a similar one with US semiconductor maker Texas Instruments, underscoring the Chinese firm’s accelerated ...

CATL has become the first battery manufacturer to deploy humanoid robots at scale on the assembly line, replacing humans in ...

In today’s CEO Daily: Asia editor Nick Gordon reports on China’s robotics edge. The big story: It’s Budget Day in the U.K. The markets: In the black, globally. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat ...

AgiBot and Unitree help China capture bulk of global deployments in 2025 as market heads for sixfold growth by 2027, report ...

The Hangzhou-based firm’s output far outstripped the roughly 150 units each shipped by Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics ...

We're not shipping a lot of humanoid robots yet. But shipments are forecast to almost double each year for the next decade.

Factory floors used to be loud with human voices. Not anymore. Instead, more and more factories have a monotonous, almost hypnotic hum. It’s the sound of a million arms that never tire. We’re talking, ...

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTECH signed a cooperation deal with Airbus to deploy its Walker S2 robots inside aircraft ...

On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...