Figure CEO Accuses UBTECH of Faking ''Robot Army'' Video, UBTECH Hits Back with New Footage

The high-stakes competition over humanoid robot production has escalated into a public confrontation on X (formerly Twitter), with UBTECH Robotics defending the authenticity of its "robot army" after Figure CEO Brett Adcock accused the company of faking its videos with CGI.

The spat began when Adcock, in a series of posts, directly challenged a video from UBTECH celebrating its recent mass delivery announcement. "Look at the reflections on this bot, then compare them to the ones behind it," Adcock wrote. "The bot in front is real - everything behind it is fake."

He highlighted reflections of ceiling lights on the robots' heads as "a giveaway it’s CGI" and referred to the video as showing "(fake) robots" being delivered to customers.

UBTECH issued a direct rebuttal hours later, posting a new, seemingly unedited video to its corporate X account. The footage, which appears to be shot from a drone, flies slowly and continuously between rows of hundreds of assembled Walker S2 robots standing in a large industrial hall.

The post was captioned with a defiant message: "They said it looked too perfect to be real. But perfection isn't fabricated—it's delicately engineered. This is the historic mass delivery of UBTECH (优必选) Walker S2. The next era of intelligent manufacturing is here."

A Challenge to a Major Milestone

The public dispute targets one of UBTECH's most significant commercial claims to date. The Shenzhen-based company recently announced the "world's first mass delivery" of industrial humanoids, stating "hundreds" of Walker S2 units had been shipped to partners.

This delivery is the first major step in fulfilling a 2025 order book that UBTECH reports has exceeded 800 million yuan (approx. $113 million USD). Adcock's accusation directly questions the authenticity of the "robot army" video that UBTECH released earlier in the week to signal its mass production capabilities.

A Pattern of Public Criticism

This is not the first time Adcock has used his public platform to aggressively critique competitors. His "autonomy-first" philosophy has repeatedly put him at odds with rivals.

• On 1X: Adcock has been a vocal critic of 1X's human-in-the-loop teleoperation strategy, dismissing it as "soy stuff". In another interview, he called such demos "perhaps some of the most deceiving things I've ever seen" and later accused 1X of staging "fake videos".

• On Agility Robotics: In a recent X feud, Adcock bluntly predicted Agility Robotics would be "bankrupt in <12 months", citing "poor engineering choices".

While Adcock's previous criticisms focused on competing technical strategies or a rival's financial viability, this latest accusation against UBTECH marks a new front. By claiming the use of CGI, Figure's CEO is questioning the fundamental authenticity of a competitor's hardware and its milestone production claims, highlighting the intense and increasingly combative nature of the race to build and deliver humanoids at scale.