Galbot’s G1 robot at work in an automotive plant. | Source: Galbot
Galaxy General Robot Co., also known as Galbot, late last week said its latest funding round has surpassed $300 million. This brought the company’s total funding to $800 million and followed a $153 million round from earlier this year. It also brought Galbot’s valuation to $3 billion.
The Beijing-based company said the funding will help it scale deployments, develop new technologies, and expand its global reach.
Founded in May 2023, Galbot uses simulated synthetic action data sets for pre-training and real data for post-training. The company said this approach leads to the rapid iteration of embodied large model technology worldwide.
“Galbot is 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,” it asserted.
“The company’s self-developed key technologies, including its embodied intelligence large models, have pioneered global firsts in areas such as multi-task generalization, whole-body motion control, cross-embodiment autonomous navigation, and dexterous hand manipulation,” said Galbot. “These innovations have laid a solid technological foundation for the large-scale deployment of humanoid robots.”
Galbot deploys G1, launches Galbot Store
Galbot’s flagship robot is the G1, a mobile manipulator with a human-like torso, two arms, and a mobile base. It designed the robot to automate inventory, replenishment, delivery, and packaging.
Galbot’s robots are also deployed in multiple warehouse locations, where they’ve demonstrated stable and continuous 24/7 operations for over a year. In healthcare, Galbot is working with hospitals like Xuanwu Hospital, where G1 assists in patient rooms, pharmacies, and hospital guidance systems.
So far, Galbot has explored deployments of G1 with partners such as battery manufacturer CATL, engineering company Bosch, and automakers Toyota and Hyundai. The company claimed that it has secured orders for thousands of units.
Galbot has also launched Galbot Store, a fully autonomous retail system using the G1 robots. The company said its stores are operational in over 30 cities across China.
This latest round of funding included investors from China, Singapore, and the Middle East, said Galbot.
Mobile manipulators emerge as a humanoid alternative
Galbot is part of a larger trend in the robotics industry around semi-humanoid mobile manipulators. These robots offer some of the flexibility of humanoids while maintaining a more stable wheeled base.
Other developers taking this route include Kinisi Robotics. Kinisi offers the KR1, a dual-armed robot with a mobile base. The company has so far focused on warehouse and storeroom applications with its robot.
RoboForce earlier this year unveiled its Titan mobile manipulator, which it says works in demanding outdoor environments. Additionally, U.K.-based Humanoid unveiled its HMND 01 Alpha mobile manipulator for industrial facilities in September.
Other companies, like Sunday Robotics and Weave Robotics, are creating semi-humanoid robots for home deployments.
Meanwhile, more established robotics players have released mobile manipulators that look more like traditional warehouse robots. For example, Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) last year introduced its MC600 mobile manipulator.
That robot combines the MiR600 autonomous mobile robot (AMR) with the UR20 and UR30 collaborative robot arms from Universal Robots (UR). The MC600 earned MiR and UR parent company Teradyne a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award.
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