UBTech Launches Uworld U1 Humanoid Robot Series With Emotion AI
The UWORLD U1 is positioned as a personal home companion against loneliness, not an industrial tool, and its integrated platform from hardware to AI aims to solve real-world deployment problems that have kept humanoid robots out of homes.
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Chinese robot manufacturer UBTech Robotics announced the UWORLD U1 series on July 1, 2026, calling it the world's first full-size biomimetic humanoid robot designed for mass production. The robot features silicone skin, an emotion-driven large language model, and can replicate specific individuals' appearance and voice. It is priced from 119,800 yuan for the half-body Lite model to 990,000 yuan for the Ultra model.
The UWORLD U1 uses a proprietary dual-pivot biomimetic cervical spine that UBTech claims reproduces up to 90% of human neck movement. A fast-brain/slow-brain architecture delivers responses within 500 milliseconds, while a facial expression control system keeps voice-to-mouth delay under 20 milliseconds. The robot runs on an emotion-driven large language model built in-house, and its three-layer privacy architecture minimizes cloud reliance, with users managing their own data.
Three models are available: the half-body U1 Lite at 119,800 yuan, the full-body U1 Pro at 169,800 yuan, and the U1 Ultra, with a male version at 990,000 yuan and a female version at 880,000 yuan. UBTech stated that 100 units of the UWORLD U1 will be produced initially.
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