Chinese Humanoid Robots: AgiBot, UBTech, Fourier

When people talk about the race in humanoid robots, attention usually goes to Tesla and American startups such as Figure AI or Agility Robotics. Yet it is Chinese manufacturers that first moved from lab prototypes to production lines counting thousands of units a year. Three names come up most often: AgiBot, UBTech and Fourier Intelligence. Each has chosen a different strategy, and it is those differences that decide which robot suits which use.

AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics): scale above all

AgiBot, also known by its Chinese name Zhiyuan Robotics, consistently stresses that it leads in the number of units produced. According to an Omdia report cited by AgiBot, the company delivered 5,168 humanoids in 2025 (39% of the global market) and ranked first in the world by volume. On 30 March 2026 AgiBot announced its 10,000th robot; according to the company, the first 1,000 units took almost two years and the road from 5,000 to 10,000 took three months. These figures come from the company itself and from a report it cites.

In July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, AgiBot showed four new products (AgiBot): the A3 Ultra humanoid (1.74 m, 51 degrees of freedom) for commercial and service environments, the X2 Edu educational platform (1.3 m, 29 degrees of freedom) for research and competitions, the G2 Max, the company's first heavy-payload industrial robot for tasks such as palletizing, and the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M hand with 20 active degrees of freedom. The company gives no prices for these models in the announcement, so we do not quote any.

AgiBot describes its strategy as a move from one-off demonstrations to robots that can be manufactured, delivered and reliably integrated into real operating environments. Co-founder Peng Zhihui says the industry should judge embodied AI by that criterion rather than by a single impressive demo.

UBTech: a factory that makes a robot every ten minutes

UBTech Robotics is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange and was previously known mainly for educational robots and the first-generation humanoid Walker. The breakthrough came with the Walker S series, designed specifically for industrial tasks: moving parts, sorting and working on an assembly line alongside people.

In 2026 UBTech opened a “super smart factory” of 14,000 square meters in Liuzhou, designed to finish one robot on average every ten minutes, with a target capacity of about 10,000 units a year (TechRadar). In an announcement of 17 November 2025 UBTech said it had begun mass production and delivery of the Walker S2 and that orders for the model had exceeded 800 million yuan. According to press reports, the 1,000th Walker S2 came off the line in Liuzhou on 26 December 2025. In its results for 2025 UBTech reported selling 1,079 full-size humanoids and revenue from these robots of about 820 million yuan (Shenzhen Government Online).

According to UBTech's announcement the Walker S2 goes to automotive manufacturing, smart factories, logistics and data-collection centers, and the company lists BYD, Foxconn, FAW-Volkswagen, Audi FAW, Geely and SF Express among its partners. The agreement with Airbus made headlines: according to press reports from January 2026, UBTech confirmed that Airbus had bought Walker S2 robots for early proof-of-concept tests in aircraft component assembly (MarketScreener); this is an experimental phase, not a production deployment, and no timeline for full deployment was given.

A separate UBTech business line is the consumer UWORLD U1 series, positioned as a home companion rather than a robot for physical work; at its 30 June 2026 launch the company said orders had passed 13,361 units, and it expects first deliveries from mid-September 2026 (UBTech announcement).

Fourier Intelligence: a turn toward healthcare

Fourier Intelligence, which grew out of the rehabilitation robotics market (the company has long made exoskeletons and motor rehabilitation devices), took a third route. After earlier models GR-1 and GR-2, aimed mainly at research and industrial pilots, it unveiled the GR-3 in August 2025: a robot 165 cm tall and weighing 71 kg, with up to 55 degrees of freedom (DOF) and 12-DOF hands (Fourier announcement of 6 August 2025).

The GR-3 clearly targets the care segment: according to Fourier's announcement it has a soft-touch outer shell with warm tones, cushioned surfaces and premium upholstery, 31 pressure sensors distributed over the body, and a hot-swappable battery system for around-the-clock operation. The intended uses are companionship for children and older adults and, in future, assistive care including health monitoring and rehabilitation. We found no figure in the manufacturer's materials for the number of facilities where the GR-3 already works, nor an official price, so we give neither; reports online of “more than 300 facilities” and a price of USD 80,000–120,000 are not confirmed by primary sources.

Other players in the background

Beyond these three companies, the Chinese humanoid ecosystem is much broader. It includes Unitree (better known in Poland for its Go2 and B2 quadruped series, described in our article on quadruped robots, but also developing the bipedal G1 and H1) and firms less known in the West such as Galbot, or XPeng Robotics, a Unitree competitor that grew out of the automotive industry. Investment in the whole sector in China is backed by both private capital and government programs promoting “embodied AI” as a strategic industrial priority, which partly explains the pace at which Chinese firms move from prototype to production line faster than many Western competitors.

What this means for a buyer in Poland

None of the three manufacturers has an official distributor on the Polish market, so a practical purchase, if possible at all, means dealing directly with the manufacturer or a European partner, a longer delivery time, and customs and service costs added on top of the list price. For companies considering a pilot, remember also that the production and sales figures given by Chinese manufacturers come mostly from their own press releases. That is not the same as independently verified market data, and it should be read that way.

The key practical difference comes down to use: UBTech and AgiBot today target mainly industry and logistics, Fourier Intelligence targets healthcare and rehabilitation. When choosing a model for a specific task, this criterion matters more than the number of units built. We cover the profitability calculation for such a deployment separately, in our article on the TCO of a humanoid robot.

As they are confirmed, we will publish full technical specifications and current prices for individual models on the manufacturers' profile pages in our database: see the profiles of AgiBot, UBTech and Fourier Intelligence.