Walker C1

Walker C1 is a full-size, electrically driven bipedal humanoid robot developed by UBTECH Robotics, the Shenzhen-based robotics company known for its consumer and educational robot platforms. The robot stands 1.63 m tall and weighs 43 kg, with 20 degrees of freedom across its body and a top walking speed of 1.7 m/s. UBTECH positions Walker C1 around its proprietary Embodied Interactive Large Model, which powers multilingual conversational and guidance capabilities. The platform joins a growing field of service-oriented humanoids and humanoid robots aimed at public-facing roles, though it remains closer to demonstration and event deployment than to repeatable commercial operation. Public information on production scale, pricing, and sustained field use is limited.

Walker C1 has appeared at several high-profile events, most notably as the first embodied AI tour guide for the China Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka. It has also been shown at the Strawberry Music Festival 2025 and the Spring Banquet of Guangdong Province 2025, performing greeting, reception, and guided tour functions. These appearances demonstrate Walker C1 operating in real public settings, but they represent event-based deployments rather than ongoing commercial contracts with named customers. Public deployment evidence remains limited to these curated engagements, and UBTECH has not publicly disclosed recurring commercial rollouts, fleet deployments, or named enterprise buyers. Buyer assessment should treat Walker C1 as a pre-commercial platform currently building its public deployment track record.

Walker C1 may be most relevant for organizations considering humanoid robots in visitor-facing service roles, including exhibition hosting, corporate reception, and guided tour assistance. Its full-size bipedal form factor, multilingual interaction capabilities, and autonomous navigation via U-SLAM suggest suitability for structured indoor environments such as museums, trade shows, and corporate lobbies. The 2-hour walking runtime and 43 kg weight impose operational constraints that buyers should evaluate against duty-cycle expectations. Practical assessment depends heavily on whether Walker C1 can move beyond curated event appearances into repeatable, unsupervised daily operation. Pricing has not been publicly disclosed, which adds procurement uncertainty for buyers evaluating total cost of ownership.