# Galbot > Source: https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot > Updated: 2026-10-28 > Fact-checked: 2026-10-28 > Categories: Chinese AI, Embodied AI, Humanoid Robots, Robotics, Robotics Companies > License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) - attribute to "AI Wiki (aiwiki.ai)" > Cite as: AI Wiki. "Galbot." aiwiki.ai, 28 Oct 2026. https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot > From AI Wiki (https://aiwiki.ai), the free encyclopedia of artificial intelligence. Reuse freely with attribution. **Galbot** (Chinese: 银河通用机器人, also known as Galaxy General Robotics or Galaxy General) is a Chinese [embodied AI](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/embodied_ai) and general-purpose robotics company headquartered in Haidian District, Beijing.[1][2] Its corporate name was Beijing Galbot Co., Ltd. until November 2025, when it converted from a limited liability company into a joint-stock company, 北京银河通用机器人股份有限公司 (Beijing Galaxy General Robot Co., Ltd.).[3] Founded in May 2023 by Peking University assistant professor Wang He and co-founder Yao Tengzhou, the company builds wheeled, dual-arm [humanoid robots](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/humanoid_robot) driven by [vision-language-action](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/vision_language_action_model) (VLA) foundation models trained largely on synthetic simulation data.[4][5][6][7] Its flagship robot, the [Galbot G1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_g1), operates unmanned convenience stores and pharmacies around the clock in dozens of Chinese cities and runs pilot and production tasks on automotive and battery manufacturing lines.[8][9] Galbot raised more than $300 million in December 2025 at a $3 billion post-money valuation, then another RMB 2.5 billion (about $362 million) in March 2026, a round the company said made it the highest-valued unlisted firm in the humanoid robotics sector; Caixin reported that Galbot is preparing a Hong Kong listing.[8][10][11] In August 2026 it added its first bipedal robot, the [Galbot ET1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_et1).[12]
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## Key facts | Item | Detail | | --- | --- | | Corporate name | 北京银河通用机器人股份有限公司 (Beijing Galaxy General Robot Co., Ltd.) since November 27, 2025; previously Beijing Galbot Co., Ltd.[3] Press releases also use Beijing Galbot AI Co., Ltd.[8] | | Chinese name | 银河通用机器人 (Galaxy General Robotics)[1] | | Founded | May 2023, Beijing[4][5] | | Founders | Wang He (王鹤), founder and CTO, assistant professor at Peking University; Yao Tengzhou (姚腾洲), co-founder and legal representative[13][2][7] | | Headquarters | Haidian District, Beijing, with R&D centers in Shenzhen, Suzhou, and Hong Kong[2][8] | | Robots | Galbot G1 (wheeled semi-humanoid), G1 Premium (Jetson Thor version), Galbot S1 (industrial heavy-duty), Galbot ET1 (bipedal, unveiled August 2026)[5][14][15][12] | | Foundation models | GraspVLA, GroceryVLA, TrackVLA, NavFoM, AstraBrain[5][13][16] | | Cumulative funding | $800 million through December 2025 (company figure), plus RMB 2.5 billion (about $362 million) in March 2026[8][10] | | Valuation | $3 billion post-money (December 2025)[8] | | Key deployments | Unmanned stores and pharmacies (about 200 locations as of March 2026), CATL production lines, automotive factory pilots[15][17] | ## History ### Founding (2023) Galbot was founded in Beijing in May 2023.[4][5] Wang He set up the company together with Yao Tengzhou, who had previously worked at ABB Group.[7] It came out of the embodied-AI research orbit of [Peking University](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/peking_university), where Wang runs a research group focused on robotic manipulation, dexterous grasping, and vision-language-action models.[6][13] According to a Jiemian News profile republished by 36Kr, most of the company's core members came from Huawei's "Genius Youth" program, [Baidu](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/baidu_ai), and Microsoft, which the article said gave it strengths in self-developed core components such as motors and reducers, end-to-end large models, and mass-production processes.[2] According to a PEdaily report republished by Jiemian, the company raised its first money within a month of its founding, from BlueRun Ventures and Matrix Partners.[7] ### Angel round and first robot (2024) By June 2024 Galbot had closed an angel round of approximately RMB 700 million (about $99.75 million), which Xinhua described as a record for China's embodied intelligence sector that year; the largest investment came from the on-demand services platform [Meituan](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/meituan).[4] The same month the company unveiled its first-generation robot, Galbot, a wheeled dual-arm general-purpose machine.[7] Xinhua also reported that the young company had developed grasping technology with a 95 percent success rate "for objects of any material and stacking configuration," that Hong Kong Investment Corporation became an investor in July 2024, and that Galbot would begin testing a 24-hour unmanned operation scenario with Meituan by the end of 2024.[4] A further RMB 500 million strategic round followed in November 2024.[18] That unmanned scenario became the company's signature commercial format. At the China International Fair for Trade in Services in September 2024, Galbot and Meituan's pharmacy arm debuted what state media called "the world's first humanoid robot-powered smart pharmacy system," a 24/7 unmanned pharmacy stocked and served by a Galbot robot.[19] ### Scale-up (2025) In 2025 the company moved from pilots to scale. It released its first VLA foundation model, GraspVLA, in January 2025, closed an RMB 1.1 billion (about $153 million) round led by battery maker [CATL](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/catl) in June 2025, formed a joint venture with the [Bosch](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/bosch) Group's investment platform the same month, and won gold in the robot skills competition at the inaugural [World Humanoid Robot Games](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/world_humanoid_robot_games) in Beijing in August 2025.[20][5][21][22] Later in August it announced that its G1 Premium robot, shown at the [World Robot Conference](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/world_robot_conference), runs on NVIDIA's [Jetson Thor](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/jetson_thor) computer.[14] In August 2025 Galbot robots were also used for the real-robot stage of the team challenge at the 2nd International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) in Beijing.[23] In November 2025 the company completed a shareholding reform that turned it into a joint-stock company.[3] Bloomberg reported in December 2025 that Galbot had picked Citic Securities, Huatai Securities, and UBS to work on a possible Hong Kong initial public offering in 2026; Humanoids Daily, summarizing that report, said the company sought a valuation of $3 billion to $4 billion, while Galbot said the report "isn't true" and described the change as a shareholding restructuring to bring in new private investors.[24][25] On December 19, 2025 it announced a round of more than $300 million at a $3 billion valuation.[8] ### Spring Festival Gala, new funding and ET1 (2026) In January 2026 Galbot launched the Galbot S1, an industrial heavy-duty robot already working on CATL production lines.[15] On January 25, 2026, China Media Group named Galbot the "designated embodied large model robot" for its 2026 Spring Festival Gala.[2] Before the broadcast, on February 9, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping viewed a demonstration of the Galbot G1 at a national information technology innovation park in Beijing E-Town and met Wang He, according to the Global Times and Wang's academic homepage.[26][13] The company reached mass-audience visibility in China on February 16, 2026, when its robots performed alongside actors Shen Teng and Ma Li in a short film during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, folding clothes and rolling walnuts in hand; Global Times reported that two G1 units priced at nearly 630,000 yuan (about $91,000), listed on JD.com during the live broadcast, were snapped up instantly, according to JD.com.[16] In March 2026 Galbot closed a further RMB 2.5 billion round; Caixin reported that it was preparing for a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing.[10][11] In April 2026 it signed a strategic partnership with the automotive parts supplier Yanfeng International, and in June 2026 it released the AstraBrain-WBC 0.5 whole-body control model and signed a global strategic cooperation agreement with CATL.[27][28][29] In August 2026 it unveiled the [Galbot ET1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_et1), its first bipedal humanoid robot, at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.[12] Galbot opened ET1 pre-orders on September 3, 2026.[30] In early October PCauto reported prices of 79,000, 139,000 and 179,000 yuan for the basic, professional and flagship versions, more than 200 reservations in the first 24 hours, and that the robot was still at the pre-order stage, without large-scale deliveries.[31] ## Founders and leadership ### Wang He Wang He (王鹤) is Galbot's founder and chief technology officer. He holds the role alongside a faculty post at Peking University. | Item | Detail | | --- | --- | | Education | BE, electronic engineering, [Tsinghua University](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/tsinghua_university) (2014); PhD, [Stanford University](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/stanford_university) (2021), advised by Leonidas J. Guibas[32][7] | | Academic post | Tenure-track assistant professor and doctoral supervisor, CFCS, Peking University[32][33] | | Lab roles | Founder and leader of the EPIC Lab; director of the PKU-Galbot Joint Lab of Embodied AI and the BAAI Center of Embodied AI[32] | | Selected honors | 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Youth Outstanding Paper Award (for NOCS); 2025 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35 China); Fortune China 2025 "40 Under 40"; 2026 Beijing Youth May Fourth Medal[32][13][34] | His research covers embodied perception, dexterous manipulation, and 6D pose estimation. His work on category-level 6D pose estimation, NOCS, received the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Youth Outstanding Paper Award, and he has published more than 50 papers in venues including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA, IROS, and TRO.[32] His lab's output feeds directly into Galbot's model stack: he is a senior author of the GraspVLA paper.[6][13] Wang has been publicly cautious about timelines. In a July 2025 interview with 36Kr, he said, "I strongly advise against hyping up embodied artificial general intelligence (AGI)," and added, "We're likely five to ten years away from robots that can do everything."[35] ### Yao Tengzhou and other executives Yao Tengzhou (姚腾洲) is Galbot's co-founder and legal representative. He holds a master's degree from the Robotics Research Institute of Beihang University, where he studied under Wang Tianmiao, and worked for many years on industrial and service robots at ABB Group's Shanghai robotics R&D center before co-founding Galbot.[2] Zhao Yuli serves as chief strategy officer and has been the company's public voice on its pharmacy and retail automation business.[17][36] ## Products | Product | Type | Introduced | Main uses | Key specifications | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Galbot G1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_g1) | Wheeled dual-arm semi-humanoid | June 2024 (first-generation Galbot robot)[7][3] | Retail, pharmacies, warehouses, factory pilots | 5 kg payload per arm, up to 8 hours of work per charge[37] | | [Galbot G1 Premium](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/beijing_galaxy_galbot_g1_pro) | Wheeled dual-arm semi-humanoid | August 2025 | Retail, healthcare, logistics | NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor computer[14] | | Galbot S1 | Heavy-duty wheeled robot | January 2026 | Heavy manufacturing | 50 kg continuous dual-arm payload, up to 8 hours per charge[15] | | [Galbot ET1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_et1) | Bipedal humanoid | August 2026 | Pre-order stage as of October 2026[31] | Pre-order prices of 79,000 to 179,000 yuan[31] | ### Galbot G1 The [Galbot G1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_g1) is a wheeled semi-humanoid mobile manipulator: two dexterous arms and a lifting torso on an omnidirectional wheeled base, rather than a bipedal walker. The Robot Report describes it as designed to "automate inventory, replenishment, delivery, and packaging," with AI models that let it handle around 5,000 different types of goods and a deployment time of about one day per store.[5] The G1 is the platform behind the Galbot Store retail format, the unmanned pharmacies, hospital pilots, and most of the company's factory proof-of-concept work. TechNode reported in June 2025 that Galbot's wheeled robots had been deployed in Mercedes-Benz and Zeekr factories in China.[20] Galbot's published specifications for the G1 are:[37] | Specification | Value | | --- | --- | | Maximum height | 1,730 mm | | Torso lift range | 650 mm | | Arm length (shoulder to wrist center) | 710 mm | | Weight | 92.5 kg | | Degrees of freedom | 21 (neck 2, arms 7 x 2, waist 3, legs 2), excluding base and end effectors | | Payload | 5 kg per arm, 10 kg combined | | Base | Four-wheel omnidirectional chassis | | Top speed | 1.5 m/s | | Battery and runtime | 48 V 30 Ah; 8 hours of work, 3.5 hours to charge | | Compute | NVIDIA AGX Orin 64 GB (275 TOPS) | | End effectors | Interchangeable dexterous hand, suction cup, or gripper | | Protection rating | IP54 | ### Galbot G1 Premium In August 2025 Galbot said it was integrating NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor into its G1 Premium robot, which had been shown at the World Robot Conference in Beijing. The company said Thor provides 7.5 times the AI compute of the previous-generation Jetson Orin with 3.5 times greater energy efficiency, and that the G1 Premium was recognized at the conference as the "swiftest humanoid worker."[14] "Our G1 Premium, now running on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, delivers significant gains in speed and real-time reasoning, enabling our proprietary VLA models to achieve enhanced real-world performance," Wang He said.[14] ### Galbot S1 In January 2026 Galbot launched the Galbot S1, an industrial-grade heavy-duty robot that the company says achieves a continuous dual-arm payload of 50 kg, runs up to 8 hours per charge, and can swap its own batteries via a dual-battery quick-swap design for 24/7 operation.[15] The S1 navigates by visual perception without QR codes or markers, has 360-degree obstacle avoidance and, according to Galbot, was already handling heavy-load tasks on CATL production lines at launch.[15] Galbot's product page lists a weight of 320 kg and a four-wheel-steering omnidirectional chassis.[38] ### Galbot ET1 The [Galbot ET1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_et1), unveiled at the 2026 World Robot Conference, is the company's first bipedal humanoid.[12] Pre-orders opened on September 3, 2026, in three versions.[30] PCauto reported in early October 2026 prices of 79,000, 139,000 and 179,000 yuan, and that the robot had not yet entered large-scale delivery.[31] ### Galbot Store and Galaxy Space Capsule Galbot Store is the company's fully autonomous retail format, described by Galbot as "the world's first smart retail solution operated fully autonomously by humanoid robots."[8] In mid 2025 the format ran in roughly 10 stores in Beijing with a target of 100 stores nationwide; by December 2025 the company said Galbot Store was operational in over 30 cities across China.[5][8][39] A compact version branded the "Galaxy Space Capsule" (银河太空舱) is a 9-square-meter cabin run by a single robot that greets customers, takes payment, picks items, and hands them over without remote operation. City News Service described one near the Super Brand Mall in Shanghai's Lujiazui district that stocks more than 300 items, including drinks, snacks, cultural products, and daily-use medicines, with refrigerated and frozen storage, and reported similar stores in Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Chengdu.[40] As of October 2026, Galbot's website said Galaxy Space Capsule units were operating at more than 170 sites in over 40 Chinese cities.[37] ## Foundation models Galbot develops its models, datasets, and hardware in house, and describes itself as "the world's first company to fully achieve full-stack in-house development across hundreds-of-billion-scale high-quality datasets, embodied foundation models, and robotic hardware," a marketing claim that nonetheless reflects an unusually vertically integrated approach.[8] Its training strategy is simulation-first: synthetic action data for pre-training, real-world data for post-training.[39] The company has said it works with [NVIDIA Isaac Sim](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/nvidia_isaac_sim) for simulation.[5] Wang He told Robotics Business News in September 2025 that "the lack of real-world robotic action data has long been a bottleneck for the robotics industry" and that 99 percent of Galbot's training data comes from synthetic sources.[41] | Model | Function | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | GraspVLA | Grasping | Released January 2025; pre-trained on the billion-frame SynGrasp-1B synthetic dataset[6][5] | | GroceryVLA | Retail manipulation | Grasps densely stacked goods of many packaging types without per-product tuning[5] | | TrackVLA | Navigation and tracking | Follows dynamic targets and natural-language commands in complex scenes[5][41] | | NavFoM | Navigation | Cross-embodiment panoramic navigation foundation model[13] | | AstraBrain | Whole-body control | Integrated "brain-cerebellum-neural control" model used at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala[16] | | AstraBrain-WBC 0.5 | Whole-body motion control | Released June 2026; about 80.4 million parameters[28] | - **GraspVLA**, released in January 2025, is a grasping foundation model pre-trained on SynGrasp-1B, a billion-frame synthetic grasping dataset generated with photorealistic rendering and extensive domain randomization. The accompanying paper, whose authors include Wang He, integrates autoregressive perception and flow-matching action generation in a unified chain-of-thought process and reports zero-shot generalization to unseen objects.[6] - **GroceryVLA** targets retail commercialization, handling densely packed consumer goods in complex store environments.[5] - **TrackVLA** is a navigation model covering visual environment perception, natural-language command following, and dynamic target tracking.[5] Its paper, "TrackVLA: Embodied Visual Tracking in the Wild," lists Wang He among the authors.[42] - **NavFoM** is described on Wang He's homepage as a cross-embodiment, omnidirectional panoramic navigation foundation model meant to let robots decide where to go in unknown environments.[13] For the 2026 Spring Festival Gala performance, Galbot said its robots ran AstraBrain, an integrated end-to-end large model combining "brain-cerebellum-neural control" for full-body and full-hand coordination.[16] In June 2026 the company released AstraBrain-WBC 0.5, a whole-body motion-control model with about 80.4 million parameters; according to a QbitAI report, it was trained on 20,000 hours of human motion data, and its success rate rose from 83.26 percent to 92.58 percent as training data grew from 2 million to 2 billion frames.[28] ### Dexterous grasping research NVIDIA's developer blog profiled DexGraspNet as a Galbot project: a simulated dataset of 1.32 million ShadowHand grasps on 5,355 objects across more than 133 categories, validated in Isaac Sim and two orders of magnitude larger than the earlier Deep Differentiable Grasp dataset.[43] The original DexGraspNet paper (October 2022) predates the company and lists Wang He as its last author.[44] The same blog described UniDexGrasp++, which uses Geometry-Aware Iterative Generalist-Specialist Learning (GiGSL) and reached 85.4 percent success on training objects and 78.2 percent on test objects, a simulation test environment for dexterous-grasping models built with Isaac Sim and [NVIDIA Isaac Lab](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/isaac_lab), and DexGraspNet 2.0, a cluttered-scene grasping project for which the team reported 90.70 percent real-world success in zero-shot sim-to-real transfer.[43] Galbot also co-developed OpenWBT_Isaac, a simulation platform for whole-body teleoperation of humanoid robots, with Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute.[14] ## Commercial deployments ### Unmanned retail and pharmacies Galbot's most distinctive commercial bet is running its own 24/7 unmanned storefronts. The pharmacy line began with the Meituan partnership unveiled in September 2024.[19] In August 2025 the company said its G1 robots were running fully autonomously in more than 10 pharmacies in Beijing, with plans to expand to more than 100 by the end of that year.[22] By March 2026, CGTN reported a Galbot pharmacy in Beijing's Haidian district in which a G1 handles order processing, sorting, packaging, replenishment, and inventory across roughly 5,000 drug SKUs in a 70-square-meter store, with a reported grasping success rate of about 99.5 percent; pharmacy staff said the system can cut labor demand by more than half.[9] The Seoul Economic Daily reported in March 2026 that Galbot plans to expand its smart pharmacies and unmanned convenience stores from approximately 200 locations to more than 1,000 by the end of 2026. The same report noted that during its visit a demonstration skipped the core drug picking and packaging steps and that a robot at a nearby unmanned store made clumsy movements on several occasions.[17] ### World Humanoid Robot Games At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing in August 2025, Galbot won the gold medal in the robot skills competition's pharmaceutical sorting challenge. According to the company, its robot competed fully autonomously while most of the 22 teams relied on teleoperation, ranked first in every round, and finished with 336 points, about 160 points ahead of the runner-up, in 10 minutes and 22 seconds.[22] The task required the robot to read, locate, and pick nine correct medications from hundreds of items on six multi-tiered shelves.[22] ### Healthcare and logistics Beyond pharmacies, Galbot works with Beijing's Xuanwu Hospital to deploy robots that assist in patient rooms, in-hospital pharmacies, and hospital guidance.[8] The company also operates autonomous warehouse-logistics deployments that it says have run stable, continuous 24/7 operations for over a year.[8] ### Industrial and automotive Galbot has stated that it has secured cumulative orders totaling several thousand units from industrial clients including CATL, Bosch, [Toyota](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/toyota), BAIC Group, and SAIC Motor.[10] Its December 2025 release names CATL, Bosch, Toyota, and [Hyundai](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/hyundai) as manufacturing partners and claims it was "the first company globally to deploy humanoid robots for real autonomous operations on manufacturing floors."[8] Its S1 launch release also lists BAIC Group, SAIC Group, and Zeekr among its manufacturing partners.[15] CATL, the battery maker, is both an investor and a deployment partner: it led the June 2025 round, and the S1 works on CATL production lines.[20][15] In June 2026 the two companies signed a global strategic cooperation agreement covering smart production-line upgrades and the global expansion of embodied robots; they also said they would jointly draft an after-market service standard for embodied-AI robots. Sina Finance described the S1 as the first embodied-AI robot in regular operation to use CATL batteries.[29] In June 2025, Boyuan Capital, the Bosch Group's market-oriented investment platform, and Galbot announced a joint venture named Boyin Innovation Alliance to industrialize embodied AI in high-precision manufacturing; as an early milestone the venture signed a memorandum of understanding with UAES, a Bosch automotive joint venture in China, to establish RoboFab, a joint laboratory for automotive-operations embodied AI.[21] Gasgoo reports that the joint venture with Boyuan Capital operates as Bowintec (Chengmai Bowintec Technology Co., Ltd.); it raised a Pre-A round of nearly 300 million yuan in May 2026, led by Yuanhe Chenkun with Boyuan Capital and Bosch Ventures investing again; Gasgoo reported that it had validated its first industrial robot, the BW10-Lite, on UAES production lines.[45] In April 2026 Galbot and Yanfeng International signed a strategic partnership to deploy Galbot's AstraBrain models and robot hardware in automotive-component manufacturing, with Galbot's Shanghai unit working with Yanfeng's intelligent manufacturing capability center.[27] ## Funding and valuation Galbot reported cumulative funding of $800 million in December 2025 and announced a further RMB 2.5 billion (about $362 million) round in March 2026; added together, the two figures exceed $1.1 billion, a computed sum rather than a company-reported total.[8][10][11] Sources label the rounds differently, so the table uses dates rather than series letters. | Round | Announced | Amount | Key investors | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Angel | Disclosed June 2024 | About RMB 700 million (about $99.75 million) | Meituan (largest investor), BAIC, SenseTime Guoxiang Fund, iFlytek Fund, Qiming Venture Partners, BlueRun Ventures, Matrix Partners China, Source Code Capital, IDG Capital[4][7] | Described by Xinhua as a 2024 record for China's embodied intelligence sector; Hong Kong Investment Corporation joined in July 2024[4] | | Strategic round | November 2024 | RMB 500 million | SAIC Group, Hong Kong Investment Corporation, Shanghai AI Industry Fund, Beijing Robot Industry Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group, CCB International; existing investors IDG, Matrix and BlueRun added more[18] | | | Strategic round | June 2025 | RMB 1.1 billion (about $153 million) | CATL and Puquan Capital (leads), China Development Bank arms, Beijing Robot Industry Fund, Granite Asia (formerly GGV Capital), Qiming Venture Partners[20][5] | Brought total funding to about $335 million; TechNode reported the round made Galbot a unicorn[20][5] | | Growth round | December 19, 2025 | Over $300 million | Led by a China Mobile fund, with CICC Capital and the Chinese Academy of Sciences fund; investors from China, Singapore, and the Middle East[2][8] | $3 billion post-money valuation; company claimed records for largest single-round and cumulative financing in embodied AI[8]; TechNode put the valuation at over RMB 20 billion[10] | | Growth round | March 2, 2026 | RMB 2.5 billion (about $362 million) | National AI Industry Investment Fund, Sinopec, CITIC investment entities, Bank of China, SAIC Motor's financial arm, existing shareholders[10][46] | Company says the deal makes it "the highest-valued unlisted firm in the humanoid-robotics sector"; Caixin reports Hong Kong IPO preparations[11] | The first-named state fund in the March 2026 round was reported differently, and neither source names a lead investor. Chinese outlets named the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, describing it as part of phase three of the national "Big Fund," and said this was the Big Fund's first investment in an embodied-AI company; TechNode listed the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund.[46][10] The investor base is notably heavy on industrial and state-linked strategics, from Meituan and CATL to Sinopec, CITIC, and SAIC, mirroring the company's deployment pipeline in retail, battery, and automotive manufacturing.[4][20][10] Caixin framed the March 2026 round within a sharp post-Lunar New Year acceleration of investment into Chinese embodied-AI startups racing to fund mass production and position for public listings.[11] ## Position in China's humanoid landscape Galbot occupies a distinct niche among China's leading humanoid robot companies. Where [Unitree](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/unitree), [UBTech](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/ubtech), and [AgiBot](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/agibot) are best known for bipedal (or quadrupedal) locomotion platforms, Galbot has deliberately built wheeled manipulators optimized for flat indoor commercial floors, prioritizing manipulation, uptime, and cost over legged mobility, although it added the bipedal ET1 in 2026. It is also unusual in operating its own consumer-facing retail network rather than only selling robots to integrators.[5][8][12] Within the broader [humanoid robot market](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/humanoid_robot_market), Galbot's December 2025 valuation of $3 billion, which its release called a record for China's humanoid-robot sector, placed it among the most valuable privately held Chinese humanoid companies, and Caixin described it in March 2026 as the highest-valued unlisted firm in the sector.[8][11] Unitree, valued at around $3 billion after its Series C, was pursuing a public listing.[36] TechCrunch, citing a Forbes report, put global humanoid shipments in 2025 at 13,317 units, with Chinese makers AgiBot and Unitree leading, followed by UBTech, Leju Robotics, Engine AI, and [Fourier Intelligence](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/fourier_intelligence).[36] China released its first top-level standard system for humanoid robots and embodied AI on February 28, 2026.[47] The company's Spring Festival Gala appearance in February 2026, alongside robots from Unitree, Noetix, and MagicLab, and the Xi Jinping inspection days earlier, underscored how central the sector has become to Chinese industrial policy.[16][26] After the broadcast, JD.com said searches for robots on its platform rose 300 percent within two hours, customer service inquiries rose 460 percent, and robot order volume rose 150 percent.[48] A fuller list of competitors is at [humanoid robot manufacturers](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/humanoid_robot_manufacturers). ## See also - [Galbot G1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_g1) - [Galbot G1 Premium](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/beijing_galaxy_galbot_g1_pro) - [Galbot ET1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galbot_et1) - [List of humanoid robots](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/list_of_humanoid_robots) - [Humanoid robot](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/humanoid_robot) - [Embodied AI](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/embodied_ai) - [Vision-language-action model](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/vision_language_action_model) - [Meituan](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/meituan) - [CATL](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/catl) - [NVIDIA](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/nvidia) - [Unitree](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/unitree) - [AgiBot](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/agibot) - [UBTech](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/ubtech) - [Galaxea Dynamics](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/galaxea_dynamics) - [Figure AI](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/figure_ai) - [Industrial robot](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/industrial_robot) ## References 1. 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