Galbot
Galbot is a Beijing embodied-AI startup founded by Peking University professor Wang He. Its wheeled G1 humanoid runs unmanned retail stores and its grasping models are trained mostly in simulation.
- Type
- startup
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Founded
- 2023-05
- Founders
- Wang He
- Status
- active
- Employees (est.)
- n/d
- Disclosed funding
- n/d
- Valuation
- n/d
- Listed
- private
- Website
- galbot.com
What the record says.
Galbot (Beijing Galbot Co., Galaxy General Robotics) was founded in May 2023 by Wang He, a Peking University researcher with a Stanford doctorate. It is a Beijing embodied-AI company rather than a bipedal humanoid maker: its G1 has a human-like torso, two arms and a wheeled base, and is sold for shelf stocking, picking, delivery and packaging.
The money has come fast. Galbot raised USD 153 million in June 2025 at a valuation above USD 1 billion, then more than USD 300 million in December 2025 at USD 3 billion post-money, with CATL, GGV and CICC among the investors; The Robot Report put cumulative funding at about USD 800 million. In March 2026 Caixin reported a further CNY 2.5 billion (USD 362 million) from the National AI Industry Investment Fund, Citic, Bank of China, SAIC and a China Mobile vehicle, and said Galbot was preparing a Hong Kong listing.
On deployments Galbot says its unmanned Galbot Stores run in more than 30 Chinese cities, that G1 units have worked warehouses around the clock for over a year, and that it has thousands of cumulative orders through partners including CATL, Bosch, Toyota, Hyundai and Great Wall Motor. These are company figures; no audited unit count or revenue has been published, and the headcount is not disclosed.
1 humanoid tracked.
Rounds and valuations.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | Series A | $153M | n/d | CATL, Puquan Capital | Series A++ of CNY 1.1 billion (about USD 153 million) led by battery maker CATL and its Puquan Capital; lifted cumulative funding to about CNY 2.4 billion. |
| Jun 2024 | Series A | $97M | n/d | Meituan Strategic Investment | Galaxy General Robot (Galbot, Beijing, founded May 2023 by Wang He of Peking University) raised about CNY 700 million (roughly USD 97 million) in a Series A that brought cumulative funding past CNY 1.2 billion within a year of founding. |
* reported, not confirmed by the company.
At customer sites.
| Robot | Customer | Site | Since | Status | Units |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galbot G1 | Pharmacy chains in Beijing (partners not individually disclosed) | Unstaffed pharmacies and retail stores in Beijing, China | 2025 | active | n/d |
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
Who is paying for humanoids: 69 funding rounds
Our funding record holds 69 entries. Take out the government funds, the acquisitions and the IPOs and $6.33 billion of disclosed private money remains. 37 percent of it went to companies with no robot on record.
What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026
Of 182 humanoid robots on record, 117 have a human in the loop, 33 have ever worked at a customer site and none has a verified fleet count. Here is what that leaves.
Where humanoids actually work: 52 deployments, counted
We track 52 humanoid deployments at named sites. Eighteen are in car plants, exactly half are live, and six say how many robots turned up. Those six add up to 41 machines.
Sources
- 01Galbot official siteGalbot
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- 03Galbot brings in $300M to scale mobile manipulator deploymentsThe Robot Report
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