UBTECH and Tianyi open a joint lab to expand robot use
Chinese robot maker UBTECH and China Telecom subsidiary Tianyi have signed a robotics cooperation agreement and opened a joint laboratory. Their plans cover household companionship and commercial services, including rentals and trials in telecom stores. Three-year goals concern the industry scale they hope to help develop, alongside work on customized products and application validation.
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A laboratory joins the robotics agreement
Chinese robot maker UBTECH and Tianyi Telecom Terminal, China Telecom’s wholly owned device-operations subsidiary, signed a robotics agreement on 9 November. They also opened a joint innovation laboratory. The cooperation covers joint research, products and business models for household companionship and commercial services. Tianyi brings its operator channels and customer relationships to the project, while UBTECH contributes its robot technology and products.[1], [2]
Rentals and store trials are planned
The companies plan robot rentals, packages combining devices with AI services and hands-on trials in telecom stores. Products are to be refined for household and commercial settings. Their stated three-year ambition is to help household companion robot industry scale exceed one million units, with a separate target above 100,000 human-like or wheeled humanoid terminals. These are goals for future industry scale, rather than completed deliveries.[1]
The lab will adapt and validate applications
Use-case discovery, product customization, application validation and standards development are the laboratory’s four priorities. Technical cooperation is intended to connect robot speech interaction, visual recognition and emotional computing with telecom cloud, network, AI and security capabilities. UBTECH senior vice president Hao Baoyu said research and development would increase for household companionship and commercial services, with joint products developed around user requirements.[1]
