Deployment story

Walker S1 at BYD: an integrated factory-logistics trial

UBTECH documented Walker S1 working with mobile robots, logistics vehicles and a manufacturing management system at a BYD plant.

Chinese Humanoids Editorial / Apr 30, 2025 / Buyer intelligence note

UBTECH's 2024 annual report documents first-stage Walker S1 training at a BYD auto plant. The broader solution connected the humanoid with autonomous logistics vehicles, industrial mobile robots and a manufacturing management system for sorting, handling and dispatch workflows.

UBTECH reported that efficiency doubled and stability improved by 30% during the first-stage work. The filing does not publish the baseline, measurement window, fleet size or the often-repeated claim that every SPS sorting cycle took ten seconds. The ten-second figure could not be verified in a primary source and is excluded here.

The case supports the feasibility of orchestrating a humanoid inside an existing automated logistics chain. It does not yet provide enough data for an independent cost-per-part or sustained-uptime comparison. The exact BYD plant location also was not disclosed in the cited filing, so this story is not plotted on the map.