UBTech
Walker S2
Industrial humanoid with autonomous battery-swap for 24/7 uptime.
- Height (cm)
- —
- Weight (kg)
- —
- Degrees of freedom
- 52
- Payload (kg)
- 15 kg
USE CASE
Industrial buyers should read humanoid claims conservatively. The platforms earning real factory revenue today work in narrow, repeatable tasks — payload, ingress protection, safety certification and integration effort decide the shortlist, not agility demos.
For industry, rated payload and duty cycle matters: shift-long, sustained figures under load decide whether the ROI model closes. For industry, safety certification matters: deployment next to workers requires documented safety functions, not promises. For industry, integration and references matters: a platform with named automotive or electronics deployments de-risks your own pilot.
Industrial humanoids typically sell in the €40–100k band and above, priced by quote with integration and service attached.
Every model below is listed with its EU availability status — confirm distributor stock and lead time before committing to a date.
22 robots in this category
UBTech
Industrial humanoid with autonomous battery-swap for 24/7 uptime.
XPeng
EV-maker humanoid built on in-house AI silicon.
Apptronik
US-built industrial humanoid, ~4h hot-swap operation.
Enterprise sales — inquireAgility Robotics
Fence-free warehouse humanoid, most operating hours of any humanoid.
Fourier
Research/industrial base platform with a swappable battery.
EngineAI
Full-size flagship known for a natural end-to-end gait.
Kepler
Industrial-first humanoid, ~8h battery, sensorized hands.
PNDbotics
High-biomimetic QDD-actuated full-size biped.
UBTech
Factory-deployed predecessor to Walker S2.
Ti5 Robotics
Lightweight 44-DoF biped with high-torque leg joints.
NEURA Robotics
Europe's flagship cognitive humanoid; Porsche-designed, €98k.
PAL Robotics
Torque-controlled EU research humanoid, ROS-native.
Humanoid
UK-built logistics humanoid; Bosch EU manufacturing deal.
Boston Dynamics
All-electric Atlas; Hyundai deployment, Best Robot at CES 2026.
Foundation
US industrial humanoid platform.
Robot Era
Full-size general-purpose humanoid.
Tesla
Tesla's general-purpose humanoid; not sold externally.
Figure AI
3rd-gen commercial humanoid; Helix VLA, BMW logistics pilot.
Figure AI
Proven on the BMW line; 16-DoF hands.
Sanctuary AI
Precision-manipulation platform with 20-DoF haptic hands.
Kawasaki
Rugged full-size humanoid from a major industrial-robot maker.
DEEP Robotics
Industrial humanoid from a quadruped specialist; navigates 18 cm steps / 25° slopes.
UBTech's Walker series runs in Chinese automotive plants, Figure and Agility platforms have automotive and logistics pilots, and Apptronik's Apollo is trialling in manufacturing. Deployments remain narrow and task-specific.
CE conformity is the baseline; risk assessment under the Machinery Directive and, where relevant, collaborative-operation standards drive the approval process. Treat vendors without a documentation package as a schedule risk.
Start from one bounded task with measurable output. Model uptime, sustained cycle time, integration cost and supervision effort — then compare against the incumbent process, not against a human worker's wage.
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