Galbot
Galbot develops mobile dual-arm humanoid robots for generalized manipulation in real-world environments. Its Galbot G1 robot is designed to handle varied objects and tasks across service, retail, logistics and industrial settings, combining mobile manipulation hardware with embodied AI models.
Market context
One of the strongest examples of real-world deployed embodied AI systems, demonstrating that mobile manipulation platforms can deliver practical automation across retail, logistics, and manufacturing environments today. Galbot G1
Facts
- Website: https://www.galbot.com
- HQ: Beijing, China
- Founded: 2023
- Segment: humanoid robotics
- Known funding rounds: 4
Investors
- Bank of China - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- CITIC Investment Holdings - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- CITIC-affiliated investment entities - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- existing shareholders - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- National AI Industry Investment Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- SAIC Financial Holdings - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- SAIC Motor financial arm - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- Sinopec - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-02
- Beijing Robotics Industry Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-23
- CATL investment arm - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-23
- China Development Bank growth investment arm - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-23
- Granite Asia - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-23
Mobile dual-arm humanoid company
Galbot develops mobile dual-arm robots for embodied AI, dexterous manipulation and generalizable service or industrial tasks.
- Target environment: Service environments, retail spaces, homes, factories, robotics labs and human-scale manipulation settings.
- Deployment model: Mobile robot platform development using dual-arm manipulation, embodied AI models and real-world task training.
- Customer context: Enterprise users, service operators, researchers, humanoid developers and organizations testing embodied AI task execution.
- Workflow context: Dual-arm manipulation, object handling, mobile service work, embodied AI training and task generalization.
- Commercial maturity: Early commercial and development-stage humanoid robotics company with public platform releases and investor-backed growth.
- Market position: Chinese mobile manipulation company focused on dual-arm embodied AI robots.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation reliability, autonomy generalization, customer pilots, robot uptime, cost and production readiness.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes wheeled humanoids, mobile manipulators, dual-arm robots, embodied AI and service robotics.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-06-24 - Deployment - CATL and Galbot partner to deploy embodied-intelligence robots in battery manufacturing - Galbot S1 is handling material transport and picking in CATL module and pack production. CATL and Galbot plan to advance intelligent manufacturing-line upgrades and embodied-robot aftermarket standards. The S1 has a 50 kg dual-arm payload, vision-only centime…
- 2026-03-17 - Research Publication - LATENT paper presents humanoid tennis skill learning from human motion data - The paper introduces LATENT, a method for learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data The official implementation is presented by a Tsinghua University and Galbot team The released codebase uses G1 tracking and evaluation tasks f…
- 2026-03-13 - Deployment - Galbot G1 pharmacy robot enters service in Beijing - G1 pharmacy robot entered service in Beijing. The robot supports medicine picking, packaging and cabinet handoff workflows. The deployment gives Galbot a concrete retail healthcare use case beyond research publications.
- 2026-03-02 - Funding - Galbot raises RMB 2.5 billion in new financing round - Galbot completed a new RMB 2.5 billion financing round to further develop its embodied large model and advance commercialization projects. Public coverage named investors including the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, Sinopec, CITIC-affiliat…
- 2026-01-20 - Product Launch - Galbot launches S1 heavy-duty embodied intelligence robot with 50kg continuous dual-arm payload - Galbot launched the S1 as an industrial-grade embodied intelligence robot designed for manufacturing environments with a continuous dual-arm payload of 50 kilograms. The company positioned the product as breaking a longstanding payload limit in the humanoid a…
- 2025-12-19 - Funding - Galbot secures over $300 million in new funding at $3 billion valuation - Galbot completed a new funding round exceeding $300 million, bringing total company funding to $800 million. The company said the round pushed its valuation to $3 billion and described it as a record-setting financing in embodied AI and humanoid robotics. Pub…
- 2025-12-01 - Partnership - Galbot signs strategic cooperation to deploy 1,000+ robots in manufacturing - Baida cooperation includes a 1,000+ unit manufacturing deployment plan for Galbot robots. This is the explicit partnership/cooperation signal; date precision is month-only (Dec 2025).
- 2025-11-16 - Research Publication - Galbot publishes DexNDM and NavFoM embodied AI models - Galbot introduced DexNDM for dexterous manipulation and NavFoM for autonomous navigation as two embodied AI model releases. DexNDM focuses on stable fine-grained robotic hand control, while NavFoM is positioned as a navigation foundation model that generalize…
- 2025-11-01 - Research Publication - Galbot publishes NavFoM cross-embodiment navigation foundation model - Galbot described NavFoM as a cross-embodiment navigation foundation model developed with university collaborators. NavFoM is a first-party research model in Galbot's embodied AI stack, not a standalone product launch. The research strengthens The company's te…
- 2025-08-29 - Partnership - Youlife Group and Galbot establish joint venture for intelligent vocational education - Youlife Group and Galbot established a joint venture to build intelligent vocational education offerings combining Youlife's training network with Galbot's embodied robotics technology. The companies said the venture would focus on immersive and globally conn…
- 2025-08-26 - Demonstration - Galbot Integrates NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor into G1 Premium Robot - Galbot's G1 Premium robot, powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor, delivers 7.5x the AI compute of the previous generation NVIDIA Jetson Orin and 3.5x greater energy efficiency. The G1 Premium was showcased at the World Robotics Conference (WRC), where it was reco…
- 2025-08-26 - Product Launch - Galbot Robotics Launches OpenWBT for Humanoid Robot Teleoperation - Galbot Robotics introduced OpenWBT_Isaac, a simulation platform for whole-body teleoperation of humanoid robots. The platform was developed in collaboration with Tsinghua University and Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute. OpenWBT_Isaac leverages NVIDIA L20/RTX 5880 Ad…
- 2025-08-23 - Deployment - Galbot opens world's first humanoid robot-run convenience store in Beijing - Galbot launched the Galaxy Space Capsule, a convenience store fully operated by humanoid robots, in Beijing's Zhongguancun ART PARK plaza. Customers order via a tablet, and robots fetch and deliver drinks or coffee from shelves. Galbot plans to expand these r…
- 2025-08-20 - Award - Galbot Clinches Gold Medal at World Humanoid Robot Games, Redefining Autonomous Robotics in Real-World Applications - Galbot's AI robot is the world's first to master retail shelf operations in complex environments. Demonstrations included quadruped robots showcasing dynamic navigation and obstacle avoidance in crowded spaces.
- 2025-08-14 - Deployment - Galbot's humanoid robots operate 24-hour unmanned pharmacies in Beijing - • Galbot Robotics deployed its G1 humanoid robots in over 10 pharmacies across Beijing, enabling 24-hour unmanned operations. • The G1 robots autonomously retrieve medications from shelves and deliver them directly to patients. • Each robot is priced at 680,0…
- 2025-08-07 - Product Launch - Galbot Launches Fully Autonomous Humanoid-Operated Retail Pod in Beijing - Galbot introduced the Galaxy Space Pod, the world's first fully autonomous humanoid robot-operated retail pod, at Zhongguancun Dairong City in Beijing. The Galaxy Space Pod operates 24 hours a day without human intervention, serving up to 2,000 customers dail…
- 2025-08-05 - Demonstration - Galbot showcases GroceryVLA at 2025 World AI Conference - • Galbot demonstrated its GroceryVLA model at the 2025 World AI Conference in Shanghai. • The robot autonomously identified and grasped various products, including bagged snacks and soft-packed drinks, from densely arranged shelves. • The demonstration occurr…
- 2025-06-23 - Funding - Galbot raises RMB 1.1 billion funding round led by CATL-backed investors - Galbot completed a RMB 1.1 billion financing round to support commercialization of its embodied AI robots and industrial deployment. The round was led by CATL's investment arm, with participation from the growth investment arm of China Development Bank, Beiji…
- 2025-06-23 - Partnership - Bosch China, Boyuan Capital, and GALBOT form strategic joint venture - Bosch China and Boyuan Capital formed a joint venture with GALBOT to scale embodied-AI retail robotics in China. The JV structure combines Bosch industrial capabilities, Boyuan investment support, and GALBOT robotics IP for commercialization. The announcement…
- 2025-06-17 - Funding - Galbot Raises $153M to Scale G1 Semi-Humanoid Robot - Galbot secured RMB 1.1 billion (approximately $153 million) in its latest funding round, co-led by CATL and Puquan Capital. The company formed a joint venture with Boyuan Capital, the investment arm of Bosch Group, to advance the development of general-purpos…
- 2025-06-09 - Research Publication - Galbot open-sources OpenWBT whole-body teleoperation for humanoid robots - Galbot open-sourced OpenWBT, a whole-body VR teleoperation system for humanoid robots. The official repository frames OpenWBT around real-world-ready reaching skill space and supports whole-body humanoid behaviors such as walking, squatting, bending, grasping…
- 2025-06-09 - Product Launch - Galbot Robotics Introduces OpenWBT for Humanoid Robots - • Galbot Robotics unveiled OpenWBT, an open-source, whole-body VR teleoperation system for humanoid robots, at the Beijing Zhiyuan Conferen... • The system enables operators to perform complex movements such as walking, squatting, bending, grasping, and lifti…
- 2025-05-19 - Partnership - NVIDIA powers humanoid robot industry with Isaac GR00T platform adopted by Agility, Boston Dynamics, Fourier and others - NVIDIA released Isaac GR00T N foundation models enabling humanoid robots to perform complex manipulation tasks via natural language commands. Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Fourier, Galbot, Mentee Robotics, NEURA Robotics, General Robotics, Skild AI, and…
- 2024-10-30 - Research Publication - Galbot contributes DexGraspNet 2.0 large-scale dexterous grasping benchmark - DexGraspNet 2.0 presents a large-scale synthetic benchmark for dexterous grasping in cluttered scenes, spanning 1,319 objects, 8,270 scenes, and 427 million grasps. The project page lists Galbot as an author affiliation and describes zero-shot sim-to-real tra…
Team
- Wang He - Founder and CTO - Useful profile context because Galbot is strongly tied to academic embodied AI research and robot manipulation systems.
Supply chain relationships
- NVIDIA - Integration - Galbot adopts NVIDIA Isaac platform for humanoid development
Relationships
- NVIDIA - Partner - NVIDIA powers humanoid robot industry with Isaac GR00T platform adopted by Agility, Boston Dynamics, Fourier and others
- RoboSense - Technology Partner - RoboSense names Galbot among its robotics ecosystem partners for LiDAR deployment.
Context tags
- Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Official positioning emphasizes dual-arm manipulation.
- Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Company builds complete embodied robot systems.
- Mobile manipulation robotics - Peer Group
- Bimanual mobile manipulation - Workflow - Galbot is positioned around mobile dual-arm manipulation and generalized operational task handling.
- Warehouse material handling - Workflow - Public positioning includes embodied robot task execution and object handling; keep as derived until named warehouse deployment evidence is attached.
- Autonomous navigation - Capability - Mobile-base robot design implies navigation relevance, but keep derived without deployment-specific source.
- Wheeled humanoid builder - Peer Group - Galbot G1 is a semi-humanoid dual-arm robot with a mobile base rather than a strict biped humanoid.
- Warehouses - Customer Environment - Mobile manipulation and object-handling posture is relevant to warehouse/logistics contexts, but do not overstate named deployments.
- Pilot deployments - Commercial Stage - Public robot/product positioning exists, but deployment maturity should remain conservative.
Customers and deployments
- Named Customer Site - Galbot G1 pharmacy service in Beijing - 2026-03-13 - Beijing pharmacy operator - retail pharmacy automation - Galbot G1 entered service at a pharmacy in Beijing's Haidian District, picking, packagi…
- Named Commercial Humanoid Site - 1 named robot-run retail deployment - 2026-01-23 - Shanghai retail deployment - retail service operation - Shanghai city media reported that a capsule-shaped retail store run by a Galbot…
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