IT Home reported on February 7 that, according to a report by The Paper today, UBTECH is verifying the effectiveness of DeepSeek technology in humanoid robot application scenarios, including multi-modal human-computer interaction, instruction understanding in complex environments, and task decomposition and planning in industrial scenarios. The company hopes to solve the challenges of these complex tasks with the deep thinking ability of the inference model, and make the humanoid robot closer to the way of thinking and behavior of humans.
According to reports, UBTECH has cooperated with Dongfeng Liuzhou, Geely Automobile, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao Branch, Audi FAW, BYD, BAIC New Energy, Foxconn, SF Express and other enterprises. Among them, UBTECH's industrial humanoid robot Walker S1 has achieved initial results in the first phase of BYD's training, doubling the work efficiency and improving the stability by 30%, and will continue to be optimized in the future, and is expected to have large-scale delivery capacity in the second quarter of 2025.
At Foxconn, the Walker S1 has completed the first phase of logistics handling tasks, and the next stage will cover more areas in logistics scenarios and deploy more industrial humanoid robots for testing.
According to a previous report by IT House, UBTECH's chief brand officer Michael Tam revealed in an interview that this year the company will deliver 500 to 1,000 Walker S series industrial humanoid robots to customers and partners, including Foxconn and SF Express.