China's Humanoid Race Moves From Demos to Factory Floors as Robots Build Robots at 10-Minute Pace

UBTECH’s new Liuzhou factory is designed for more than 10,000 robots a year as Chinese humanoid makers scale production and deployments (Credit: UBTECH Robotics/YouTube)

China's humanoid robot industry is moving deeper into commercial production as manufacturers scale from demonstrations and pilot deployments towards factories, customer production lines and higher-volume shipments.

The latest example is UBTECH Robotics' 14,000-square-metre factory in Liuzhou, commissioned on 12 September and designed for more than 10,000 robots a year on a 10-minute production takt.