Deployment story
Walker S1 fleet trial at Zeekr: multi-robot work across factory zones
Dozens of UBTECH Walker S1 robots were trained together at Zeekr's Ningbo 5G smart factory on material, transport and assembly tasks.
In March 2025, Xinhua reported that dozens of UBTECH Walker S1 robots were operating as a coordinated team at Zeekr's 5G smart factory in Ningbo. The field trial covered sorting material, transporting boxes and assembling delicate vehicle parts across multiple work areas.
UBTECH's BrainNet system assigned work at fleet level while local controllers handled perception and action. The demonstration included workspace mapping, component tracking and the handling of flexible film. UBTECH described the activity as multi-robot, multi-task collaborative training.
That distinction matters: the available source establishes a large, real-factory training deployment, but it does not publish sustained production throughput, labor replacement, uptime or an independently audited quality result. Procurement teams should treat it as strong fleet-orchestration evidence and early operational data, not a complete return-on-investment case.