Humanoid robots are starting to build humanoid robots. UBTECH just put a 14,000㎡ humanoid robot factory into operation in Liuzhou, China, with a designed takt time of one humanoid every 10 minutes and planned annual capacity in the tens of thousands. What’s interesting is that humanoid robots are already... part of the production process. Cruzr Y1 and Y2 handle depalletizing, palletizing, material feeding and transport, using 3D vision to adapt to shifted boxes and changing pallet patterns. On the assembly side, Walker S2 and Cruzr are produced on the same line alongside cobots, autonomous logistics vehicles and assistive manipulators. The factory also has a 65㎡ automated warehouse capable of storing 112 humanoids, with AGVs, industrial robots and stacker cranes coordinated as one system. Before production, the factory was modeled 1:1 in Siemens Plant Simulation, covering workstations, racks and AGVs. Each robot gets its own SN, with components, batches, assembly parameters and inspection data tracked all the way to delivery. Humanoid robots are now entering automated manufacturing at the 10,000-unit scale. The next milestone may be when they can take part in enough of the assembly, testing and production process to truly build robots themselves.show more

One humanoid every 10 minutes with humanoids handling their own material flow. The production line becoming a deployment site for the robots it builds is a different kind of scaling.

ok so robots are building robots now. i have been to Liuzhou and this is not a pilot line — it is a 14k sqm factory doing one humanoid every 10 minutes. the wild part is they are assembling themselves. this is so 离谱 and i love it

İts Like i robot

ロボットが人間の仕事を奪ったら中国はどうなる？ 世界では、凡ゆる企業で『ロボット導入反対』『雇用保証』とデモ起きてる 中国はロボット最大被害国になる 中国ではロボットが人間の仕事を奪い1億人以上の新たな失業者が生まれると予想されている 失業者達が大規模な暴動を起こすだろうね

The panda robot I filmed at the Bund Summit last week looked absolutely adorable!

our rule after breaking enough hardware, dry run the whole thing in sim first.

One every 10 minutes. My coffee machine is slower than that😅

2027 is going to be a huge year for humanoids

does a 10-minute takt hold when the part orientation is slightly wrong, or does a human still catch those?

That warehouse holds 112 units against a build rate of 6 an hour, so the finished goods buffer covers under 19 hours of output. Nothing sitting there to absorb a slow month. Makes the takt figure a demand claim as much as a capacity one.

Will there be a market for these tens of thousands of current model robots being shipped with redundancy already built in... Hmmm...

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