Galbot’s G1 robotic at work in an automotive plant. | Supply: Galbot
Galaxy Normal Robotic Co., often known as Galbot, late final week mentioned its newest funding spherical has surpassed $300 million. This introduced the corporate’s complete 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 mentioned 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 information units for pre-training and actual information for post-training. The firm mentioned this strategy results in the fast iteration of embodied massive mannequin know-how worldwide.
“Galbot is the world’s first firm to completely 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 massive fashions, have pioneered international firsts in areas comparable to multi-task generalization, whole-body movement management, cross-embodiment autonomous navigation, and dexterous hand manipulation,” mentioned 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 cellular manipulator with a human-like torso, two arms, and a cellular 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 steady 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 methods.
To this point, Galbot has explored deployments of G1 with companions comparable to battery producer CATL, engineering firm Bosch, and automakers Toyota and Hyundai. The corporate claimed that it has secured orders for 1000’s of models.
Galbot has additionally launched Galbot Retailer, a completely autonomous retail system utilizing the G1 robots. The corporate mentioned its shops are operational in over 30 cities throughout China.
This newest spherical of funding included buyers from China, Singapore, and the Center East, mentioned Galbot.
Cell manipulators emerge as a humanoid various
Galbot is an element of a bigger pattern within the robotics trade round semi-humanoid cellular manipulators. These robots supply a number of the flexibility of humanoids whereas sustaining a extra steady wheeled base.
Different builders taking this route embody Kinisi Robotics. Kinisi gives the KR1, a dual-armed robotic with a cellular base. The corporate has to this point centered on warehouse and storeroom functions with its robotic.
RoboForce earlier this yr unveiled its Titan cellular manipulator, which it says works in demanding outside environments. Moreover, U.Ok.-based Humanoid unveiled its HMND 01 Alpha cellular manipulator for industrial services in September.
Different firms, like Sunday Robotics and Weave Robotics, are creating semi-humanoid robots for residence deployments.
In the meantime, extra established robotics gamers have launched cellular manipulators that look extra like conventional warehouse robots. For instance, Cell Industrial Robots (MiR) final yr launched its MC600 cellular manipulator.
That robotic combines the MiR600 autonomous cellular robotic (AMR) with the UR20 and UR30 collaborative robotic arms from Common Robots (UR). The MC600 earned MiR and UR dad or mum firm Teradyne a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award.
