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Walker S2 at Sherman

UBTech's flagship industrial bipedal humanoid, designed for smart manufacturing, logistics, and factory automation. Notable for a self-service battery-swap capability enabling near-continuous (reported 24-hour) operation. Reported production milestone of its 1,000th unit at UBTech's Liuzhou facility.

Walker S2 by UBTech Robotics · Operated by Texas Instruments · Unverified

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UBTECH Walker S2 industrial humanoid robots deployed at Texas Instruments' semiconductor fabrication facility in Sherman, Texas. TI purchased Walker S2 units and began deploying and debugging them on chip production lines, with deployment reported in late 2025 / early 2026 by the Securities Times and confirmed by Dallas Innovates.

Sherman, Texas is the site of TI's newest 300mm wafer fabrication plant (RFAB2), approximately 50 miles north of Dallas. TI is investing $30 billion in the Sherman facility through 2035 to expand US domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity.

The deployment involves a reciprocal supply-chain commitment: as TI integrates the Walker S2 into its production lines, UBTECH has committed to incorporating additional TI components into the Walker S2's core architecture. This makes TI both an early customer and a strategic component supplier for UBTECH's humanoid platform.

The Walker S2 is well-suited for semiconductor fab work: its 163 cm, 73 kg frame and 5 kg per-hand payload can handle wafer handling tasks and assembly operations that require precision and adaptability in cleanroom-adjacent environments.

Key facts

Use case
Semiconductor chip assembly line operations
Deployment site
TI RFAB2 fab, Sherman, Texas (300mm wafer plant)
Reciprocal supply chain
TI components in Walker S2 architecture in exchange for deployment
Deployment phase
Deploying and debugging on production lines (late 2025)
Trust tier
Unverified
Last updated
2026-06-12
Model
Walker S2
Company
UBTech Robotics
Location
United States/Texas/Sherman
Operator
Texas Instruments
Status
pilot
First seen
2025-12-01
ID
3232dc39-ac2d-4d90-bf3e-c0ddec376c1b

Sources (2)

  1. Texas Instruments To Deploy Humanoid Robots on Its Chip Production Lines · https://dallasinnovates.com/texas-instruments-to-deploy-humanoid-robots-on-its-chip-assembly-lines/ · 2026-01-01
  2. Texas Instruments Deploys UBTECH Humanoids in Strategic Semiconductor Push · https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/texas-instruments-deploys-ubtech-humanoids-in-strategic-semiconductor-push · 2026-01-01
Methodology: Unreviewed · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-12

Verification posture

Unreviewed

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-06-12

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: humanoid

Sources by quality tier

2
unclassified
Unclassified source

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Common questions

What is the Walker S2 deployment at Sherman?
Walker S2, built by UBTech Robotics, is recorded as a deployment at Sherman on the DEPLOY registry. Texas Instruments operates the deployment.
Who operates Walker S2 at Sherman?
Texas Instruments operates this deployment as a customer of UBTech Robotics, the manufacturer of Walker S2.
When did the Walker S2 deployment at Sherman go live?
The deployment is recorded as starting December 1, 2025 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
Have there been incidents at the Walker S2 deployment at Sherman?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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