In China, UBtech Robotics has just validated systems co-working through its subsidiary UKI, with the company confirming that the Chitu Alpha autonomous logistics vehicle successfully concluded production validation testing within Foxconn's new energy vehicle research and development center in Zhengzhou.

In practice this means something much bigger than a simple vehicle test, Chitu Alpha went through a complete closed cycle of production from testing to circulation within the factory to final delivery, all inhumane in the process, all autonomously, this type of validation is considered one of the last big obstacles before mass production, because it shows that the system works outside the laboratory, on a real factory floor with noise, people, obstacles, route changes and constant variations.

Chitu Alpha está clasificado como vehículo autónomo de nivel cuatro, es decir, puede operar solo en ambientes definidos, sin intervención humana continua, pero el verdadero diferencial no está solo en el vehículo, está en el ecosistema. UBtech un sistema en el que diferentes tipos de robot trabajan juntos como un solo engranaje, en el parque industrial de BYG, por ejemplo, Chitu Alpha opera junto a montacargas robóticos, robos móviles pesados y humanoides Walker S2. Mientras los vehículos transportan cargas, los humanoides manipulan piezas, los montacargas organizan palets y los sistemas centrales coordinan todo sin pausa, sin turno, sin horario comercial.

The company calls this architecture an end-to-end unmanned logistics solution, in practice it is a factory that begins to function as an organism, the sensors play the role of the senses. The control systems function as brains and the vehicles and robots become muscles. The brain of this system is orchestration software that distributes tasks, adjusts routes and avoids conflicts in real time.

If a hallway is blocked, another robot takes over, if a humanoid is occupied, a vehicle redirects the load, nothing is left standing waiting for human orders. This model radically changes the concept of industrial efficiency, today much of the time lost in factories is not in production itself, but in the mobilization of materials, searching for parts, transporting components, lifting items from one sector to another.

By automating everything, the factory begins to operate in continuous flow and when factories begin to operate almost without people, it becomes inevitable to ask, "How long until this model completely displaces the entire human working mass?"