UB Tech and Tianyi Telecom Terminal, a wholly owned China Telecom Group subsidiary, signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement on November 9, 2026, setting a three-year goal to help the humanoid-robot terminal segment exceed 100,000 units of ultra-bionic humanoid, wheeled humanoid, and related terminals2. A broader three-year target aims to help the household-companion robot-terminal industry surpass one million units. Both thresholds describe the industry scale the partners aim to help reach, not deliveries already achieved.
Tianyi handles terminal operations and terminal-ecosystem cooperation for China Telecom Group. The deal pairs China Telecom's channel network, customer base, and household and industry digital-ecosystem resources with UB Tech's humanoid-robot technology and products.
Gui Xuan, Tianyi's deputy general manager, described an implementation path designed to lower adoption barriers through new business models, encourage uptake through hands-on experience, and expand into industry-specific applications. Planned commercial activities include coordinated procurement and marketing, rental services, packages combining AI service benefits with terminals, and robot experience trials in telecom stores.
The companies also unveiled the Tianyi Telecom Terminal–UB Tech Robotics Joint Innovation Laboratory at the signing ceremony. The joint lab's four stated priorities are scenario discovery, product customization, application validation, and standards development. Under the technical plan, robot speech interaction, visual recognition, and emotional computing would connect with telecom cloud-network infrastructure, AI foundation models, quantum technology, satellite services, security, and eSIM capabilities.
UB Tech says multiple product lines have entered mass production and delivery, and that a 10,000-unit-scale smart factory entered operation in the second half of 2026. The company says its products have been batch-tested in industrial, commercial, and household settings, and that its full-stack technology covers core components, complete-machine design, and operating systems.
UB Tech recently collaborated with Xinhua News Agency on bionic humanoid robot news anchors unveiled on November 5, 2026[1].
ANALYSIS The Tianyi deal extends UB Tech's deployment push into consumer and enterprise channels, pairing telecom distribution with the media-facing work disclosed days earlier.