# Galaxy General Robotics (GalaxyBot)
Galbot ([Chinese name](https://www.edgepedia.org/chinese-name) 银河通用) is a Beijing-based embodied-AI and humanoid robotics startup founded in May 2023 by He Wang, and it remains active as of September 2026.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) The company builds wheeled dual-armed robots around a proprietary end-to-end embodied model called AstraBrain, and it is the best-funded startup in China's embodied-AI sector, with roughly RMB 7 billion (about USD 1 billion) raised in three years.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) • [3](https://hellochinatech.com/p/galaxy-general-humanoid-robot)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 2023, Beijing, by He Wang (founder and CTO)[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) |
| Sector | Embodied AI and humanoid robotics[1](https://github.com/GalaxyGeneralRobotics) |
| Flagship products | Wheeled dual-armed G1; S1 industrial platform (January 2026)[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) |
| Total raised | ~RMB 7 billion (about USD 1 billion) across 6 rounds[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/) |
| Largest round | RMB 2.5 billion, March 2026, a record single round for Chinese embodied AI[5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal) |
| Valuation | Over RMB 20 billion (~USD 3 billion) after March 2026[6](https://chinaroboticsdaily.com/galaxy-general-raises-343-million-in-record-betting-fund-for-humanoid-robots/) |
| Notable investors | Meituan, CATL, IDG Capital, iFlytek Capital, BAIC, China Mobile, National AI Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund Phase III), Sinopec, CITIC, Bank of China[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/) • [5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal) |
| Status | Active; valuation over RMB 20 billion; no IPO as of September 2026[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) |
## Founding and founders
He Wang founded the company in May 2023 and serves as founder and chief technology officer rather than CEO.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) He is a tenure-track assistant professor at [Peking University](https://www.edgepedia.org/peking-university)'s Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, holds a doctorate from Stanford, and directs the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence's (BAAI) embodied AI center.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot)
## Products and technology
**Wheeled first, bipedal second.** The flagship commercial product is the G1, a wheeled semi-humanoid mobile manipulator used for shelf restocking and pharmacy picking.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) It stands 173 cm, weighs 85 kg, and carries two 7-degree-of-freedom arms, 12-DoF dexterous hands, 47 total degrees of freedom, a 5 kg payload per arm, and 10-hour battery life, running on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB computer ([Jetson Thor](https://www.edgepedia.org/jetson-thor) in the G1 Premium).[7](https://theroboticsmedia.com/article/beijing-galbot-g1-ifa-2026-pharmacy-china-national-intelligence-law) The heavier S1 industrial platform, released in January 2026, supports a maximum payload of 50 kg per dual arm with autonomous battery-swapping and works in investor CATL's battery factories.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) • [5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal)
**AstraBrain and synthetic data.** AstraBrain (银河星脑) is an end-to-end embodied model that integrates task planning, whole-body motion control, and dexterous hand control in one network, trained mainly on synthetic data.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) Unlike competitors that develop the "brain" (task planning) and "body" (motion control) separately, Galbot integrates everything from multimodal perception to real-time feedback control in one model.[6](https://chinaroboticsdaily.com/galaxy-general-raises-343-million-in-record-betting-fund-for-humanoid-robots/) Three Vision-Language-Action models run on the G1's stack: GraspVLA for object manipulation, GroceryVLA for retail sequencing, and TrackVLA for pure-vision navigation and person-following.[7](https://theroboticsmedia.com/article/beijing-galbot-g1-ifa-2026-pharmacy-china-national-intelligence-law) The company has also released DexNDM, a dexterous-hand neural-dynamics model, and NavFoM, a cross-embodiment navigation foundation model reporting hour-level long-horizon autonomy.[8](https://embodiedglobal.com/en/article/galbot-galaxy-general-300m-usd-round-patek-precision-1000-robots-2026) Galbot claims AstraBrain is the world's first end-to-end embodied foundation model integrating "brain–cerebellum–neural control", and that its synthetic-data approach is 1,000 times more efficient than Tesla's with a reported 99% task success rate; these are company claims.[5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal)
## Funding history
Galbot raised approximately RMB 7 billion across six rounds in its first 34 months, from about 47 distinct investors after deduplication: roughly 15 market-oriented institutions, 17 state-owned, or government-guided funds, and 15 industrial strategic investors or corporate venture arms.[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/)
- **June 2024, angel round, ~RMB 700 million.** Participants included IDG Capital, SEE Fund, Lighthouse Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, Guoxiang Capital, Source Code Capital, and Yanyuan Capital, plus strategic investors Meituan, iFlytek Capital, and [BAIC Group](https://www.edgepedia.org/baic-group)'s investment arm; Zhongguancun Development Group was the first state-owned capital entity.[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/)
- **June 2025 round, USD 153 million, at a valuation above USD 1 billion.**[9](https://www.caproasia.com/2026/03/03/china-robot-startup-galbot-galaxy-general-robotics-raised-363-million-cny-2-5-billion-in-new-funding-round-raised-300-million-at-3-billion-valuation-in-2025-december-founded-in-2023-by-peking/)
- **December 2025, C round, over USD 300 million, led by China Mobile** with CICC Capital, Suzhou Ventures Group, and the CCTV Media Convergence Fund, at a post-money valuation of USD 3 billion.[5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal)
- **March 2026, Series B++, RMB 2.5 billion (~USD 343–363 million), announced March 2, 2026.** Investors included the National AI Industry Investment Fund Phase III, Sinopec, CITIC Group Investment Holdings, Bank of China, SAIC Motor Financial Holdings, SMIC Juyuan, Beijing E-Town Capital, and existing shareholders.[5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal)
The March 2026 round set the sector's single-round record for a third time and was the Big Fund's first investment in embodied AI; it lifted Galbot's valuation above RMB 20 billion and, by total capital raised, made it first in China's embodied intelligence sector.[3](https://hellochinatech.com/p/galaxy-general-humanoid-robot) • [5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal) The investor base is dominated by state capital: nine investors joined the B++ round, dominated by state-owned institutions and central SOEs.[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/)
## Business and traction
**Retail and pharmacy.** Galbot operates more than 170 autonomous Galbot Store retail units ("Galaxy Space Capsule" convenience stores) across more than 40 Chinese cities.[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/) • [7](https://theroboticsmedia.com/article/beijing-galbot-g1-ifa-2026-pharmacy-china-national-intelligence-law) It has run a 24/7 unmanned instant retail warehouse for over a year and deployed smart retail pharmacies in 24 cities, each managing more than 5,000 SKUs; in a Beijing pharmacy licensed as China's first for robot-assisted dispensing, one G1 picks with a reported 99.5 percent success rate.[5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal) • [7](https://theroboticsmedia.com/article/beijing-galbot-g1-ifa-2026-pharmacy-china-national-intelligence-law) [Healthcare](https://www.edgepedia.org/healthcare) partnerships with Xuanwu Hospital and West China Hospital deploy robots in wards, pharmacies, and guidance tasks.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) • [5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal)
**Industrial.** The S1 has entered CATL's battery factory achieving 7×24 normalized operation.[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/) Alongside the December 2025 round, Galbot announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Patek (Baida) Precision to deploy more than 1,000 humanoids into industrial precision manufacturing lines, described as one of the largest disclosed firm orders for a Chinese humanoid OEM.[8](https://embodiedglobal.com/en/article/galbot-galaxy-general-300m-usd-round-patek-precision-1000-robots-2026) The company claims cumulative orders of several thousand units from CATL, Bosch, Toyota, BAIC Group, and [SAIC Motor](https://www.edgepedia.org/saic-motor); this figure is a company claim.[5](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal)
**Scale in dispute.** Two credible accounts of shipment volume conflict. Counterpoint Research placed Galbot third globally with more than 1,100 shipments in H1 2026, behind AGIBOT and Unitree.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) A separate report states the company ships fewer than 150 robots a year, with the G1 priced around RMB 700,000.[3](https://hellochinatech.com/p/galaxy-general-humanoid-robot) The sources do not reconcile these figures; the gap may reflect different counting definitions (units shipped versus units delivered, or periods), but neither is confirmed. On pricing and deliveries the reports agree: the G1 sells for about RMB 700,000 and the S1 for about RMB 1.05 million, with cumulative deliveries in the hundreds of units against a RMB 20 billion valuation.[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/)
## Controversies and disputes
On September 10, 2026, Shao Tianlan, founder of Hong Kong-listed robotics company Mech-Mind, publicly questioned the business models of some high-valuation embodied-AI companies, directly naming Galaxy General, and accused it of creating revenue through "data collection centers" and related-party transactions. Galaxy General issued a statement denying the claims.[4](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/)
The company completed a shareholding reform in November 2025, a step often associated with IPO preparation. Bloomberg reported that it had picked banks for a 2026 listing; Galbot called the report untrue and described its moves as a shareholding restructuring.[2](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot) As of September 2026 no listing had occurred.
## References
1. [Galbot — GitHub organization (company's own)](https://github.com/GalaxyGeneralRobotics)
2. [Galbot — company profile, robots and news | Humanoids Daily](https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/companies/galbot)
3. [Galaxy General: China's $1B Humanoid Robot Brain-First Bet](https://hellochinatech.com/p/galaxy-general-humanoid-robot)
4. [Galaxy General: 34 Months Since Establishment, 6 Rounds of Financing Totaling 7 Billion | HTX Insights](https://www.htx.com/news/galaxy-general-34-months-since-establishment-6-rounds-of-fin-nZacrsOj/)
5. [RMB 2.5B: The Year's Biggest Embodied AI Deal | EqualOcean](https://equalocean.com/news/2026030221760-rmb-2-5b-years-biggest-embodied-ai-deal)
6. [Galaxy General Raises $343 Million in Record-Betting Fund for Humanoid Robots](https://chinaroboticsdaily.com/galaxy-general-raises-343-million-in-record-betting-fund-for-humanoid-robots/)
7. [Galbot G1 Wheeled Humanoid Debuts At IFA 2026 In Berlin](https://theroboticsmedia.com/article/beijing-galbot-g1-ifa-2026-pharmacy-china-national-intelligence-law)
8. [Galbot Locks Over $300M in Record Single Round, Inks 1,000-Unit Patek Precision Pact at $3B Valuation](https://embodiedglobal.com/en/article/galbot-galaxy-general-300m-usd-round-patek-precision-1000-robots-2026)
9. [China Robot Startup Galbot Raised $363 Million (CNY 2.5 Billion) | Caproasia](https://www.caproasia.com/2026/03/03/china-robot-startup-galbot-galaxy-general-robotics-raised-363-million-cny-2-5-billion-in-new-funding-round-raised-300-million-at-3-billion-valuation-in-2025-december-founded-in-2023-by-peking/)
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