Intro
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Walker C1 is a full-size service humanoid from UBTECH Robotics, which UBTECH calls the world's first full-size humanoid service robot designed for "urban symbiosis". UBTECH first showed it in a video on 22 May 2026, dancing waltz and ballet with human dancers, and launched it on 22 June 2026 at the 4th China International Supply Chain Expo at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing. At the expo it co-hosted the launch ceremony, was named the expo's first "silicon-based spokesperson", and guided and greeted visitors alongside other UBTECH robots.
Launch reports give its height as 1.64 m, its weight as 55 kg and its degrees of freedom as 53, the figure UBTECH also gives in its August 2026 interim report. Its frame uses a 3D-printed lattice structure as a "muscle" layer, with three waist joints. It runs UBTECH's Thinker embodied AI model, with vision-language-navigation and vision-language-action modules, on about 2,070 TOPS of on-device compute; some reports give the unit as TFLOPS, and the chip is not named. Reports say 60 to 70% of that compute is reserved for developers. UBTECH's Chinese product page claims a top speed of 3 m/s or more, automotive-grade safety, standing up by itself out of the box and setup by one person. UBTECH says the design draws on its Walker S mass-production experience, and it offers an SDK and standard interfaces.
UBTECH sells Walker C1 to businesses first and plans to reach consumers later through distributors and e-commerce; leasing and paid performances are also offered. No list price has been published. At the World Robot Conference in Beijing in August 2026, UBTECH showed Walker C1 EDU, a research version on its Thinker Cosmos development platform, and Walker C1 EDU Tutor, a teaching-assistant version. In September 2026 UBTECH said it had more than RMB 50 million in overseas orders from Europe, Japan and Korea that include Walker C1, without giving a split by model.
In October 2026 Bitcoin Japan signed an exclusive agreement to distribute six UBTECH humanoids in Japan, including Walker C1. The 36-month exclusivity starts when Walker C1 meets Japanese conformity and certification requirements. Before certification, Bitcoin Japan says it will supply units for research, experimental, data-collection, demonstration and similar uses permitted under Japanese law. The deal initially focuses on manufacturing and logistics, requires personal data collected by the robots to be processed and stored in Japan, and had no confirmed customers when announced.
Not known: list price, battery capacity, runtime, payload and charging time. UBTECH's product page shows its specification table only as an image.