Welcome, Walker Tienkung!
Walker Tienkung is a full size humanoid from UBTECH Robotics designed for research, education and robotics development. Standing 170 cm tall and weighing 55 kg, it combines an adult sized platform with a listed maximum speed of 10 km/h. Its demonstrated capabilities include obstacle avoidance, running 100 m, walking stairs and sorting goods. A Humanoid.Guide Skill Score of 4 out of 10 places it in the developing category, with navigation rated 3 out of 5 and manipulation rated 1 out of 5. This profile emphasizes mobility over advanced manipulation. The platform lists 49 overall degrees of freedom, a strength specification of 6 kg and a runtime of eight hours per charge. Its structure uses aerospace aluminium alloy and titanium alloy, while UBTECH integrated joint modules provide peak torque of 300 Nm. Linux and ROS 2 support give developers a familiar software environment. Modular arms, hand options and sensors support experimentation, making Walker Tienkung a platform for investigating humanoid movement and basic object handling rather than a finished general purpose worker.
Obstacle avoidance, running 100 m and walking stairs give Walker Tienkung a useful set of locomotion tasks for research. These capabilities support studies of route selection, balance and transitions between level ground and stairways. Running provides a context for examining dynamic movement, while obstacle avoidance allows developers to investigate navigation around physical obstructions. Sorting goods adds a manipulation task that can connect object handling with movement through a workspace. For educational programs, these activities offer concrete topics for robotics exercises and evaluation. Research teams can structure experiments around each task separately or investigate how navigation and sorting fit into a broader workflow. The stronger navigation rating and lower manipulation rating make mobility the clearer emphasis of its current capability profile.
Walker Tienkung is in production and listed at USD 41,000, positioning it as a purchasable research platform for universities, research institutes and developers. UBTECH Robotics, based in Shenzhen, developed the robot together with the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Its launch positioning emphasized a full size research humanoid priced below 300,000 yuan. That focus connects the platform to efforts to make humanoid hardware more accessible for technical education and experimentation. Support for ROS 2 and the Huisi Kaiwu embodied AI platform provides a software foundation for development work, while optional NVIDIA Orin computing offers expansion flexibility. Its broader significance lies in combining human scale hardware, a research oriented software environment and a defined set of physical tasks in a commercially available platform.
