Galaxy Basic Robotic Co., often known as Galbot, late final week stated its newest funding spherical has surpassed $300 million. This introduced the corporate’s whole funding to $800 million and adopted a $153 million spherical from earlier this yr. It additionally introduced Galbot’s valuation to $3 billion.
The Beijing-based firm stated the funding will assist it scale deployments, develop new applied sciences, and broaden its international attain.
Based in Might 2023, Galbot makes use of simulated artificial motion knowledge units for pre-training and actual knowledge for post-training. The firm stated this strategy results in the fast iteration of embodied giant mannequin know-how worldwide.
“Galbot is the world’s first firm to totally obtain full-stack in-house growth throughout hundreds-of-billion-scale high-quality datasets, embodied basis fashions, and robotic {hardware},” it asserted.
“The corporate’s self-developed key applied sciences, together with its embodied intelligence giant fashions, have pioneered international firsts in areas reminiscent of multi-task generalization, whole-body movement management, cross-embodiment autonomous navigation, and dexterous hand manipulation,” stated Galbot. “These improvements have laid a stable technological basis for the large-scale deployment of humanoid robots.”
Galbot deploys G1, launches Galbot Retailer
Galbot’s flagship robotic is the G1, a cell manipulator with a human-like torso, two arms, and a cell base. It designed the robotic to automate stock, replenishment, supply, and packaging.
Galbot’s robots are additionally deployed in a number of warehouse areas, the place they’ve demonstrated secure and steady 24/7 operations for over a yr. In healthcare, Galbot is working with hospitals like Xuanwu Hospital, the place G1 assists in affected person rooms, pharmacies, and hospital steerage programs.
Thus far, Galbot has explored deployments of G1 with companions reminiscent of battery producer CATL, engineering firm Bosch, and automakers Toyota and Hyundai. The corporate claimed that it has secured orders for hundreds of models.
Galbot has additionally launched Galbot Retailer, a totally autonomous retail system utilizing the G1 robots. The corporate stated its shops are operational in over 30 cities throughout China.
This newest spherical of funding included buyers from China, Singapore, and the Center East, stated Galbot.
Cellular manipulators emerge as a humanoid different
Galbot is a component of a bigger pattern within the robotics business round semi-humanoid cell manipulators. These robots provide among the flexibility of humanoids whereas sustaining a extra secure wheeled base.
Different builders taking this route embody Kinisi Robotics. Kinisi presents the KR1, a dual-armed robotic with a cell base. The corporate has up to now targeted on warehouse and storeroom functions with its robotic.
RoboForce earlier this yr unveiled its Titan cell manipulator, which it says works in demanding outside environments. Moreover, U.Okay.-based Humanoid unveiled its HMND 01 Alpha cell manipulator for industrial amenities in September.
Different firms, like Sunday Robotics and Weave Robotics, are creating semi-humanoid robots for house deployments.
In the meantime, extra established robotics gamers have launched cell manipulators that look extra like conventional warehouse robots. For instance, Cellular Industrial Robots (MiR) final yr launched its MC600 cell manipulator.
That robotic combines the MiR600 autonomous cell robotic (AMR) with the UR20 and UR30 collaborative robotic arms from Common Robots (UR). The MC600 earned MiR and UR father or mother firm Teradyne a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award.
