Galaxea launches R1 Series for wheeled humanoid manipulation

Galaxea launched the R1 Series in February 2025, introducing a wheeled dual-arm humanoid platform aimed at data collection, robotics research and real-world manipulation. The company presented the line as a set of tailored robots for embodied-AI development, with R1 positioned as a full-size mobile manipulation system rather than a bipedal humanoid built around walking.

The Company

Galaxea AI is a Chinese robotics company founded in 2023 and focused on embodied-intelligence humanoid robots. Public partner materials describe the company as taking a full-stack approach, combining AI algorithms with self-developed robot bodies rather than selling software on third-party hardware alone.

That positioning makes R1 useful as a development platform. Galaxea is trying to place a physical system into labs, developer workflows and industrial research settings where manipulation data, teleoperation and embodied-AI testing can compound across repeated tasks.

The Product

R1 is a full-size dual-arm wheeled humanoid robot. Galaxea’s documentation describes the platform with two 6-DoF A1 robot arms, two G1 grippers, a 4-DoF torso and a three-wheel steering vector chassis. The robot has a vertical operating range of up to 2 metres and a horizontal operating radius of 700 mm, giving it human-scale reach while retaining the stability and efficiency of a wheeled base.

The robot is designed for indoor mobile manipulation, not stair climbing or rough terrain. Its wheeled base gives it a narrower and more pragmatic operating lane than bipedal humanoids, with better fit for flat-floor environments such as laboratories, logistics sites, manufacturing areas and research facilities. Distributor materials frame the R-series as a mobile manipulation platform for indoor navigation and manipulation, with ROS2 workflow support and human-scale reach.

The higher-end R1 Pro variant extends the same idea. Galaxea’s public product site describes R1 Pro as a 7-DoF dual-arm wheeled humanoid for embodied-AI development and real-world industrial applications, while UK distributor EnduX lists the platform at 1,700 mm tall, 126 kg, 18 DoF excluding end effectors and base, 3.5 kg rated payload with 5 kg peak payload, and 1.5 m/s maximum speed.

The Launch

The launch gives Galaxea a clear lane inside the crowded humanoid market. R1 is not competing mainly on facial expression, full biped locomotion or consumer presentation. It is built around the parts of humanoid robotics that matter most for embodied-AI work: arms, reach, grippers, torso motion, mobile base control, teleoperation and repeatable task execution.

That also explains why R1 appears in research and developer contexts. EnduX says R1 Pro has been used by Physical Intelligence to develop π, and Carnegie Mellon’s Intelligent Control Lab lists a Galaxea R1 Lite robot in its lab resources. Those references do not prove broad commercial deployment, but they do show the platform being adopted as a research body for manipulation and embodied-AI work.

Maturity

R1 is a commercially available development and manipulation platform with public documentation, distributors and setup guides. Galaxea provides product guides covering unboxing, startup and remote control, which places the robot beyond a pure concept reveal.

The current proof point is platform availability and research adoption, not fleet-scale industrial deployment. Galaxea has disclosed the robot architecture, variant structure, documentation and distributor availability, but public materials do not yet show named customer rollouts, fleet size, production volume or customer-side performance data.

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