Car dealer Yongda orders 400 U1 Pro humanoids, UBTECH's first large order for its ultra-realistic line

Yongda Auto, the Hong Kong-listed luxury car dealer group, will buy 400 U1 Pro humanoids from UBTECH under a strategic agreement the two companies signed on Nov. 11, and UBTECH plans to deliver them this year, Shanghai Securities News reported. The U1 Pro is the top, full-body version of the U1, a full-size "ultra-realistic" humanoid that UBTECH launched in June, and it sells for RMB 169,800. At that price the order is worth about RMB 67.92 million, The Paper calculated. It is the first large order UBTECH has disclosed for the line.

Read Yongda's job in the deal and the 400 robots look like stock for a shop window more than a fleet for a workplace. Yongda has already moved into embodied AI and is set up to sell, lease, deliver and maintain humanoids and to collect data from them, Securities Daily reported. On the consumer side, the agreement uses the 400 units for product experience, sales promotion and customer service, with the goal of a repeatable model for selling ultra-realistic humanoids to consumers. Yongda brings dealerships in many cities and a base of high-net-worth customers. UBTECH brings the robot.

One dealer's first batch is 43% of UBTECH's half-year full-size sales

UBTECH sold 921 full-size humanoids in the first half of 2026, The Paper reported on its interim results. Yongda's first batch alone equals 43% of that. The two companies also plan a Shanghai showroom for UBTECH's whole robot range and shop-in-shop displays in Yongda's East China outlets. For business customers they will study demand in car retail and sell or lease robots there, which leaves room for the robots to work in dealerships too.

Two days earlier, UBTECH signed China Telecom's device arm to a three-year industry goal of 100,000 humanoids, with no purchase figure attached. Yongda puts a count and a delivery date on the same bet: selling humanoids through somebody else's stores.