Siemens Supports Ubtech in Mass Production of Humanoid Robots

10,000 Units Per Year Siemens Supports Ubtech in Mass Production of Humanoid Robots

2026-03-25 From Manuel Christa | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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The Chinese robotics specialist Ubtech and Siemens Digital Industries Software have entered into a strategic partnership. The common goal: to scale up production to an industrial level of up to 10,000 units per year.

Ready for the factory floor: While Ubtech is planning mass production, Siemens is already testing humanoids in real factory applications in Erlangen.(Image: Siemens) — Ready for the factory floor: While Ubtech is planning mass production, Siemens is already testing humanoids in real factory applications in Erlangen.
(Image: Siemens)

The agreement signed in Shenzhen marks a turning point in the still young industry of humanoid robotics. Away from pure technology verification and towards cost-efficient mass production. Ubtech has ambitious goals: An annual production capacity of 10,000 industrial humanoid robots is to be achieved by 2026 in order to meet the rapidly increasing market demand.

The "Digital Twin" for Robot Construction

In order to realize these massive quantities in the required industrial quality for 24/7 operation, Ubtech is bringing Siemens' automation and digitalization expertise in-house. At the heart of the cooperation is the implementation of an end-to-end "digital thread". With the help of Siemens' PLM and manufacturing software, the entire value creation process, from research and development to mechanical design and final assembly, is to be digitalized and mapped as a digital twin.

This enables Ubtech to achieve significantly shorter iteration cycles in hardware design and an error-free transfer of new robot models to physical series production. Siemens is also supporting the company in developing a holistic digital transformation strategy.

Siemens Tests Humanoids in Practical Use in Germany

A look at Germany shows that Siemens not only acts as a supplier, but also as a user and software supplier for the robotics platforms themselves. At the beginning of the year of the Ubtech partnership, Siemens announced the successful completion of a pilot project at its own electronics plant in Erlangen, Germany.

There, the wheel-driven humanoid robot "HMND 01" from the British start-up Humanoid independently managed complex intralogistics tasks in shift operation (including 60 container movements per hour) over a period of two weeks. The special thing about it: the robot did not navigate with proprietary start-up software, but used Siemens' own SIMOVE ANS+ navigation software. Using LiDAR-based SLAM technology (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), the humanoid moved completely autonomously and safely across the hall floor in conjunction with over 30 other classic automated guided vehicles (AGV/AMR). (mc)

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