en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 17, UBTECH announced a cooperation agreement with European robot integrator Terra Robotics, making Terra Robotics UBTECH's exclusive distributor and strategic partner in the German-speaking region (Germany, Switzerland, Austria). Terra Robotics has purchased the first batch of dozens of UBTECH's full-size embodied intelligent humanoid robots for deployment in industrial scenarios such as the logistics center of European drugstore retail chain ROSSMANN. This cooperation marks the first time UBTECH's full-size embodied intelligent humanoid robots have entered the real logistics environment of a major European retail enterprise for a long-term, large-scale pilot.
ROSSMANN announced on March 26 that its logistics center in Burgwedel, Germany, had received its first UBTECH Walker S2 humanoid robot, delivered by Terra Robotics. The project is planned as a year-long pilot, progressing in multiple phases from initial use case scenarios to practical deployment and scalability assessment. Hendrik van Duuren from ROSSMANN's logistics management stated that the company aims to gain early insights based on its own experience into the practical capabilities and limitations of robots in daily operations, seeking specific answers and pragmatically evaluating their utility. The pilot focuses not only on robotics technology performance but also closely observes employee collaboration experience with humanoid robots. The ultimate goal is to develop scalable deployment plans that integrate automation with the company's existing digitalization strategy. The robot will primarily be used for repetitive and ergonomically demanding tasks to alleviate the workload of logistics staff.
The Walker S2 deployed at ROSSMANN's logistics center is a full-size industrial humanoid robot developed by UBTECH for smart manufacturing and logistics scenarios. Standing 1.76 meters tall with 52 degrees of freedom, it can handle 15kg payloads within a full spatial range of 0 to 1.8 meters, and its waist can flexibly rotate ±162 degrees. The Walker S2 is equipped with a fourth-generation industrial-grade dexterous hand and a bionic arm. The dexterous hand features a human-like size design, enabling sub-millimeter precision operations with durability exceeding 80,000 cycles. This robot is the first globally to achieve autonomous battery swapping, featuring dual-battery simultaneous charging/discharging and standardized battery compartment quick-swap technology, supporting 24/7 uninterrupted operation. On the software side, the Walker S2 is equipped with the self-developed industrial humanoid robot collaborative agent Co-Agent, which integrates multimodal reasoning large models, embodied interaction large models, and human-like chain-of-thought technology. It possesses closed-loop operational capabilities such as intent understanding, task planning, tool invocation, and autonomous exception handling.
Terra Robotics is a young robotics integration company under the Wortmann Group, headquartered in Lohne, Germany. Murat Arpaci, the company's Managing Director, expressed in the cooperation his anticipation of collaborating with ROSSMANN to create real-world application cases for the Walker S2, proactively shaping the future with an innovative spirit and determination. UBTECH was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Shenzhen. It launched its first-generation large bipedal humanoid service robot, Walker, in 2018, followed by Walker X in 2021, and the industrial version Walker S2 in July 2025. By 2025, the company's cumulative order value for the Walker series humanoid robots exceeded 800 million yuan, with humanoid robot revenue increasing by 2203% year-on-year that year. Full-size robots have become the company's primary revenue source.
This cooperation is not UBTECH's first move in the European market. In January 2026, UBTECH signed an agreement with Airbus to supply Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus manufacturing plants for research on how humanoid robots can support aircraft manufacturing processes. Airbus purchased Walker S2 robots and will jointly explore production workshop application scenarios with UBTECH. From aviation manufacturing to retail logistics, UBTECH is advancing the validation and deployment of humanoid robots across multiple industrial and commercial scenarios in Europe, gradually completing the strategic transition from product export to scenario-based solution delivery.
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