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The pinnacle of AI robots! UBTECH, together with Hangshun’s HK32MCU, launches the Robot Early-Adoption Program.

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2026.01.26

In the global wave of accelerating iteration in the intelligent robotics industry, independent control over core technologies and performance optimization have become critical barriers to competitive advantage for companies. As a globally leading AI and robotics enterprise, UBTECH has consistently leveraged its full-stack technology approach to drive innovation across the industry. Meanwhile, Hangshun Chips, a nationally recognized “Little Giant” enterprise specializing in specialized, sophisticated, and innovative products, has taken the lead in domestic substitution with its high-performance HK32 MCU series chips. When these two companies forged a deep strategic partnership, UBTECH’s robot solutions powered by Hangshun’s HK32MCU were born—marking not only a breakthrough in market competition but also opening a new chapter in empowering the intelligent robotics industry with domestically produced core components.

1. UBTECH partners with Hangshun HK32 MCU to jointly build a new competitive edge in the market.

Currently, the global service robot market continues to expand, with its size surpassing 100 billion yuan by 2025 and boasting a compound annual growth rate of 18%. However, the industry also faces numerous challenges, including heavy reliance on imported core chips, intense pressure to control costs, and high demands for scenario-specific adaptation. Although UBTECH has already established a full-stack technology ecosystem covering “hardware components—software algorithms—system integration” and has mastered core technologies such as servo systems, motion control, and AI integration, there is still room for improvement in the localization adaptation and performance optimization of core control chips.

The addition of Hangshun’s HK32MCU series chips provides critical support for Ubtech’s technological upgrades and market breakthroughs. As a leading product in China’s 32-bit MCU sector, the Hangshun HK32MCU not only achieves full PIN-to-pin compatibility with imported chips but also boasts significant advantages in performance, power consumption, and cost. This collaboration between the two companies has enabled a precise match between “full-stack robotics technology” and high-performance domestically produced MCUs, effectively addressing pain points such as unstable supply and high costs associated with imported chips. As a result, Ubtech’s cost-performance advantage in both consumer and commercial robotics markets has become even more pronounced, while also accelerating its expansion into emerging application areas such as industrial control and healthcare services, thereby achieving a leapfrog enhancement in market competitiveness.

II. Hangshun HK32 MCU provides multi-dimensional empowerment, igniting new momentum for UBTECH’s market growth.

Hangshun’s HK32 MCU empowers Ubtech’s market presence in three core dimensions—technical support, cost optimization, and scenario expansion—injecting strong momentum into its market expansion.

In terms of technological enablement, the Hangshun HK32 MCU adopts the ARM Cortex-M4 core, with a maximum clock frequency of 168 MHz and equipped with a single-precision floating-point unit (FPU). This allows it to efficiently handle complex computational tasks such as robot motion control and multi-sensor data fusion, perfectly meeting Ubtech Robotics’ requirements for real-time performance and high-precision control. Its rich array of peripheral interfaces—including 10 USARTs, 3 SPIs, 3 I2Cs, 2 CANs, and an Ethernet interface—can seamlessly integrate with Ubtech’s servo joints, vision sensors, navigation modules, and other components, significantly enhancing system integration efficiency and stability.

 

In terms of cost optimization, the Hangshun HK32 MCU leverages its advantages in domestic production and economies of scale to achieve precise cost control while maintaining high performance. Compared with similar imported chips, it offers a significant cost-performance advantage, enabling Ubtech to further reduce the costs of its core robotic control units. This not only makes its products more price-competitive in the consumer market but also lays a solid cost foundation for the large-scale deployment of commercial robots.

 

In terms of scenario expansion, the Hangshun HK32 MCU features an industrial-grade operating temperature range of -40℃ to 105℃ and a wide voltage tolerance, enabling it to adapt to harsh environments such as high temperatures, extreme cold, and strong electromagnetic interference. Coupled with a standby power consumption as low as 3.3 μA, this makes UBTECH robots easily adaptable to specialized scenarios including outdoor inspections, industrial workshops, and operations in extreme environments, effectively broadening their market application boundaries and opening up new growth opportunities.

III. Overview of the Plan: An Intelligent Robot Control System Driven by Domestic Core Technologies

UBTECH’s robot solution, powered by Hangshun’s HK32 MCU, takes the Hangshun HK32 MCU as its core controller and deeply integrates UBTECH’s independently developed servo drive technology, AI perception algorithms, and robotic operating system application framework. This creates a fully domestically-produced, high-performance, and highly reliable intelligent robot control system spanning the entire value chain.

The overall solution adopts a modular design. The core control unit, built around the HK32 MCU chip, is responsible for coordinating and handling key tasks such as robot motion planning, sensor data acquisition and analysis, and interpretation of human-machine interaction commands. It achieves high-speed synchronous communication with UBTECH’s servo joint units via a real-time, high-speed Ethernet network, ensuring smooth and precise robot movements. By integrating multi-sensor data fusion algorithms and positioning & navigation technologies, the robot can autonomously perform localization, obstacle avoidance, and path planning in complex environments. Relying on an extensive array of peripheral interfaces, the system can flexibly expand with functional modules such as visual recognition, voice interaction, and remote control, thereby meeting the application requirements of various scenarios.

This solution can be widely applied to various categories of robots, including consumer-grade humanoid robots, educational robots, commercial logistics robots, and industrial inspection robots. It achieves end-to-end optimization—from core chips to system integration—providing users with smarter, more stable, and cost-effective robotic products and services.

IV. Core Advantages of the Solution: A Fourfold Breakthrough in Performance, Reliability, Cost, and Ecosystem

Compared to traditional solutions, UBTECH’s robot solution equipped with Hangshun’s HK32 MCU boasts four core advantages, comprehensively enhancing product competitiveness.

First, high-performance computing power support. The HK32MCU chip from Hangshun, with its high clock speed of 168 MHz and FPU floating-point unit, provides robust computational power to support the complex algorithms running on UBTECH robots. Whether it’s real-time motion control for multi-degree-of-freedom joints or high-speed data processing by visual sensors, these tasks can be completed efficiently, significantly enhancing the robot’s response speed, motion accuracy, and environmental adaptability.

Second, high reliability and stability. This solution has passed rigorous industrial-grade standard tests. The Hangshun HK32 MCU boasts exceptional anti-interference capability, enabling it to operate reliably even in harsh electromagnetic environments. With a wide temperature and voltage range design, the robot can adapt to environmental challenges in various scenarios, featuring a low failure rate and significantly enhancing both product longevity and user experience.

Third, end-to-end cost optimization. Leveraging the cost advantages of domestically produced HANGSHUN HK32 MCUs, combined with UBTECH’s large-scale production capabilities, this solution has significantly reduced the cost of the core control unit. Meanwhile, the HK32 MCU’s full compatibility with imported chips eliminates the need to modify schematic diagrams or PCB designs, effectively shortening the product development cycle, lowering R&D costs, and enabling faster time-to-market and early market entry.

Fourth, an open and compatible ecosystem. The Hangshun HK32 MCU boasts a comprehensive development toolchain and technical support system, seamlessly compatible with UBTECH’s operating system and algorithm development platform, enabling developers to quickly carry out secondary development and expand functionality. Meanwhile, its rich array of peripheral interfaces provides ample room for upgrading system features, allowing easy integration of emerging technologies such as large-scale AI models and 5G communication, thereby continuously enhancing the intelligence level of products.

Against the dual backdrop of accelerating domestic substitution and the booming smart robotics industry, the powerful partnership between UBTECH and Hangshun has not only created robot solutions that are technologically advanced and offer excellent cost-performance ratios, but has also set a benchmark for collaborative innovation in the industry—combining domestically produced core components with complete-machine manufacturers. Looking ahead, as this collaboration continues to deepen, it will undoubtedly drive the development and deployment of more high-performance, domestically produced smart robotic products, injecting Chinese strength into the global robotics industry’s innovative growth.

Hangshun Chip’s main product portfolio includes over 300 models across 29 major families of 32-bit MCUs—ranging from industrial, commercial, and automotive-grade to general-purpose, application-specific, and custom-designed—based on cores such as ARM Cortex-M0, M3, M4, and RISC-V. Below is a selection of specific product families:


 

HK32F005 family (the world’s smallest 32-bit MCU with an area of just 1 mm²—shaking up the established, somewhat lax standards set by industry veteran TI)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 48 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 32 KB, and maximum SRAM is 4 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for a variety of application scenarios, such as smart homes, consumer electronics, wearable devices, and more.

The HK32L010 family—low-power powerhouse, offering exceptional cost-effectiveness and high stability, truly standing head and shoulders above the rest in the MCU world!

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 48 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 64 KB, and maximum SRAM is 4 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for ultra-low-power applications such as simple wearable devices and environmental monitoring sensor terminals.

HK32F407/405/417/415 family (thanks to innovative manufacturing processes and outstanding performance, it truly stands as a performance powerhouse in the fields of industrial control and smart applications).

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M4F kernel, with a main frequency of up to 168 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 1 MB, and maximum SRAM is 256 KB.

Segmented Markets: Applicable to scenarios including industrial automation, high-end medical devices, industrial control, power equipment, energy storage, photovoltaic inverters, charging guns, battery management systems (BMS), display screens, access control and intercom systems, cooking appliances, floor-scrubbing robots, floor-washing machines, printers, stage lighting, and more.

The HK32F103A family—boasting a high-performance 120MHz main frequency and exceptional precision—truly deserves the title of “king of cost-effectiveness in the MCU world,” empowering the era of IoT.

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 120 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 512 KB, and maximum SRAM is 97 KB.

Segmented Markets: Applicable to scenarios including industrial automation, high-end medical devices, industrial control, power equipment, energy storage, photovoltaic inverters, charging guns, battery management systems (BMS), display screens, access control and intercom systems, cooking appliances, floor-scrubbing robots, floor-washing machines, printers, stage lighting, and more.

HK32F04AA/030A family (a performance powerhouse with abundant peripheral resources and high cost-effectiveness—truly a versatile all-rounder in the MCU world)

Kernel And clock frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 core, with a maximum clock frequency of 96 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 128 KB, and maximum SRAM is 10 KB.

Segmented markets: Applicable to fields such as IoT, smart homes, industrial applications, healthcare, and home appliances.

HK32C030 Family (Setting a New Benchmark for MCUs with its High-Performance Core, Rich Peripheral Resources, and Cost-Effectiveness)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 64 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 64 KB, and maximum SRAM is 10 KB.

Niche market: Suitable for consumer electronics such as coffee makers, smart locks, LED control and dimming, and more.

HK32F0301MC family (a performance monster with abundant peripherals, truly a legend in terms of cost-effectiveness)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 48 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 16 KB, and maximum SRAM is 4 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for a variety of application scenarios, such as smart homes, industrial control, consumer electronics, and more.

HK32F0301MA family (super-powered peripherals, blazing performance, and excellent cost-effectiveness—truly a master in the MCU world)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 48 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 32 KB, and maximum SRAM is 4 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for a variety of application scenarios, such as smart homes, industrial control, consumer electronics, and more.

HK32L08X family (ultra-low-power monster with rich peripherals, truly the king of ultra-low power for IoT and metering applications)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 48 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 128 KB, and maximum SRAM is 20 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for ultra-low-power applications such as metering devices, environmental monitoring sensor nodes, industrial ranging, in-vehicle multimedia systems, and handheld medical devices—examples include water meters and gas meters.

HK32A040 family (automotive-grade quality, high performance, and rich peripherals—truly the king of cost-effectiveness for body domain and cockpit domain MCUs)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 96 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 128 KB, and maximum SRAM is 10 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for automotive electronic control systems such as the body domain and cabin domain.

HK32AUTO39A family (a high-reliability, ultra-large-storage performance monster—truly the all-round king in the automotive-grade MCU world)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 120 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 512 KB, and maximum SRAM is 96 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for automotive electronic control systems such as the body domain and cabin domain.

HK32R78 family (high integration, low power consumption, high performance—truly a powerhouse in the home appliance MCU arena)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 64 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 64 KB, and maximum SRAM is 10 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for home appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, range hoods, coffee makers, smart locks, LED control and dimming systems, and more.

HK32C005 Family (backed by functional safety certification, a high-performance, cost-effective powerhouse—the king of smart control in the consumer market)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 64 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 64 KB, and maximum SRAM is 10 KB.

Segmented markets: Applicable to fields such as IoT, smart homes, industrial applications, healthcare, and home appliances.

HK32C105 Family (outstanding cost-performance ratio, highly compatible with multiple packages, IEC60730 certified, a performance powerhouse in the home appliance market)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 64 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 64 KB, and maximum SRAM is 10 KB.

Segmented markets: Applicable to fields such as IoT, smart homes, industrial applications, healthcare, and home appliances.

The HK32C207 family—combining functional safety with powerful performance, making it a true game-changer in the field of intelligent control.

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 64 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 64 KB, and maximum SRAM is 10 KB.

Segmented markets: Applicable to fields such as IoT, smart homes, industrial applications, healthcare, and home appliances.

HK32M050 family (high integration, low power consumption, flexible packaging—performance powerhouse in the motor control field)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 64 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 16 KB, and maximum SRAM is 4 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for motor control applications such as water pumps, power tools, fan applications, high-speed motors, and electric mobility.

HK32M060 Family (High Integration, High Precision, High Performance, and a Self-Developed Motor Acceleration Unit for More Efficient Motor Control)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 48 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 64 KB, and maximum SRAM is 8 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for motor control applications such as water pumps, power tools, fan applications, high-speed motors, and electric mobility.

HK32M070 Family (a monster of high precision, high efficiency, and cost performance—the ultimate powerhouse in motor control performance)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 64 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 32 KB, and maximum SRAM is 4 KB.

Segmented market: Suitable for motor control applications such as water pumps, power tools, fan applications, high-speed motors, and electric mobility.

HK32EC021 Family (Low Power, High Integration, Intelligent Control—A Monster in E-cigarette Control Performance)

Kernel and Main Frequency: Based on the ARM Cortex-M0 kernel, with a maximum main frequency of 48 MHz.

Storage capacity: Maximum Flash memory is 32 KB, and maximum SRAM is 4 KB.

Niche market: Suitable for the e-cigarette market.

HK16P053 Family (Less than 0.018 per chip! Ahsen’s dark horse MCU—reaching the pinnacle of the world!)
 

Kernel and clock frequency: 8-bit microcontroller with a maximum clock frequency of 16 MHz.

Storage capacity: Flash is 1 KB, and SRAM is 64 × 8 bits.

Segmented market: Suitable for applications including small home appliances, toys, smoke detectors, infrared remote controls, sensors, electronic tags, consumer electronics, and more.

HK16P071 Family (Legendary Rebirth, Dark Horse Returns, New Peak for MCUs)
 

Kernel and clock frequency: 8-bit microcontroller with a maximum clock frequency of 16 MHz.

Storage capacity: Flash is 2 KB, and SRAM is 128 x 8 bits.

Segmented Markets: Suitable for applications including wearable devices, consumer electronics, sensors, IoT, small home appliances, toys, infrared remote controls, LED beads, electronic scales, and more.

HK24Cxx EEPROM (Storing New Legends—Hangshun EEPROM Sets the Industry Ablaze)
 

Capacity: Full coverage from 2K to 512K.

Operating voltage and temperature: 1.8–5.5V, -40–85℃.

Segmented market: Suitable for critical data storage in power-off protection data control devices, diagnostic instruments, consumer electronics, and electronic tag data storage, among others.

HK25Qxx NOR Flash (Reliable storage, ultimate performance—Hangshun NOR Flash sets the industry benchmark)
 

Capacity: Full coverage from 1M to 128M.

Operating voltage and temperature: 2.3–5.5V, -40–85℃.

Segmented Markets: Applicable to wearable devices, PC motherboards, set-top boxes, routers, sensor nodes, electronic cigarettes, smart speakers, smart door locks, 5G base stations, and more.

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