Walker S2
Industrial humanoid with autonomous battery swapping for continuous factory operation
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Technical Details
Specifications
| Height | 1.76 m / 5' 9'' |
|---|---|
| Weight | 65 kg / 143.3 lb |
| Degrees of Freedom | 52 |
| Locomotion | biped |
| Payload | 15 kg |
| Battery Type | — |
| Speed | 2 m/s |
| Rated Runtime | 4 h |
Sensors
| Cameras | — |
|---|---|
| Depth Sensing | Yes |
| Lidar | Not disclosed |
| IMU | Yes |
| Microphones | Not disclosed |
| Tactile Sensing | 11-DoF dexterous hands with force sensing |
Software
| Control Mode | autonomous, teleoperation, hybrid |
|---|---|
| Middleware | — |
| SDK | Proprietary |
| SDK Details | ROSA 2.0, semantic VSLAM, multimodal AI integration |
| Connectivity | — |
Deployment
Units Shipped: Several hundred (first batch, toward a stated 500-unit 2025 target)
As of Nov 2025 · UBTECH Robotics
Company Claim
UBTECH names BYD, Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor, Geely Auto, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao, Audi FAW, BAIC New Energy, Foxconn, and SF Express as Walker S2 customers, with orders exceeding 800 million yuan (~$112 million) since early 2025, and states it is scaling production capacity to 5,000 units/year by 2026 and 10,000/year by 2027
What's Actually Confirmed
Task-level, site-specific confirmation of S2 hardware (as opposed to earlier Walker S/S1/Lite generations) is only independently traceable for Foxconn, where UBTECH's own industrial solutions page describes Walker S2 working alongside its Wali U1500 AMR for SPS parts feeding. For other named customers, UBTECH's own materials describe their earliest humanoid trials using predecessor models (Walker S1 at BYD, Walker S Lite at FAW-Volkswagen, plain 'Walker S' at NIO), and it is not independently confirmed whether each has since received S2-specific units as part of the November 2025 order book
Foxconn
Foxconn New Energy Vehicle R&D Centre
| Task | SPS (sequenced parts supply) parts feeding, working alongside UBTECH's Wali U1500 AMR, supporting production validation testing for Foxconn's Chitu α logistics vehicle |
|---|---|
| Stage | Production |
| Start Date | Feb 2026 |
| End Date | — |
BYD, Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor, Geely Auto, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao, Audi FAW, BAIC New Energy, SF Express
Multiple China-based automotive and logistics facilities
| Task | Automotive manufacturing, smart factory operations, intelligent logistics, and data collection centers (task scope varies by site, not individually detailed) |
|---|---|
| Stage | Agreement |
| Start Date | Nov 2025 |
| End Date | — |
Airbus
Not specified
| Task | Aviation manufacturing (early concept-testing phase, per Airbus's own statement) |
|---|---|
| Stage | Agreement |
| Start Date | Jan 2026 |
| End Date | — |
Texas Instruments
TI semiconductor manufacturing plants (site not specified)
| Task | Semiconductor manufacturing |
|---|---|
| Stage | Pilot |
| Start Date | Dec 2025 |
| End Date | — |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Walker S2 and who makes it?
Walker S2 is an industrial humanoid with autonomous battery swapping for continuous factory operation. It is manufactured by UBTECH Robotics and was announced in 2025.
How tall is the Walker S2?
Walker S2 is 1.76 m / 5' 9'' tall.
How much does the Walker S2 weigh?
Walker S2 weighs 65 kg / 143.3 lb.
How much can the Walker S2 carry?
Walker S2 can carry a payload of 15 kg.
How much does the Walker S2 cost? Is the Walker S2 available to buy?
UBTECH Robotics has not published a price for the Walker S2 — it is quoted on enquiry. No public pricing or leasing information disclosed by UBTECH. Enterprise-focused pilot/production deployments only.
What are the main strengths of the Walker S2?
- Autonomous battery swapping enabling near-continuous operation
- Industrial-focused humanoid architecture
- Integrated semantic navigation and embodied AI planning
- 52 DoF full-body mobility and dexterous manipulation
- Broadest named-customer list of any humanoid in this directory, with at least one task-level confirmed deployment (Foxconn)
What are the limitations of the Walker S2?
- Industrial-scale autonomy reliability still unclear
- Limited public transparency on compute and AI stack
- Relatively slow locomotion speed
- Commercial production scale not independently verified
- Most named customers' deployments are confirmed at the company level, not independently verified as S2-specific hardware at the task level
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