On September 28, Frost & Sullivan released the 2026 Global Humanoid Robot Market Research Report. In H1 2026, global humanoid robot sales reached 36,000 units and revenue $540 million, surpassing the full-year 2025 total. Revenue increasingly concentrated in embodied-intelligence and full-size models; embodied-intelligence products accounted for 83% of revenue. Production operations was the fastest-growing application. In 2025, the top five vendors by revenue were all Chinese, with UBTech ranking first.
At the embodied intelligence ethics governance seminar themed "Embodied for Good, Collaborative Governance," UBTech released the world's first White Paper on Ethical Governance of Humanoid Robot Technology, proposing a full-process governance framework covering ethical risk identification, assessment, control, testing, and review. It also introduced three special protection goals—action controllability, appropriate anthropomorphism, and measured interaction—alongside a seven-step risk management framework, eight impact domains, and eight risk control strategies.
On September 12, the commissioning ceremony of UBTech's 10,000-unit industrial humanoid robot super smart factory was held in the Northern Ecological New District, Liuzhou. The factory is designed to produce one robot every 10 minutes, with an annual planned capacity of over 10,000 units.
During the JD 618 promotion period, JD MALL welcomed its first batch of UB Tech humanoid robots as employees. These robots are responsible for tasks such as wel