UBTECH and Volkswagen team up to test humanoid robots in car factories
· Source: interestingengineering.com
In short
UBTECH Robotics and FAW-Volkswagen have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop and test humanoid robots for factory logistics and smart manufacturing at vehicle production facilities. The expanded partnership moves beyond the earlier Walker S Lite quality-inspection trials at Volkswagen's Qingdao plant toward material and component handling, backed by UBTECH's new Liuzhou super smart factory that can build one robot every 10 minutes. Specific robot models, tasks, volumes, and deployment timelines have not yet been disclosed.
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Tags: humanoid robots, factory logistics, automotive, manufacturing, automation