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Galbot said its G1 robot can work in a variety of environments, including pharmacies
| Source: GalbotGalaxy General Robot Co., also known as Galbot, this week completed a funding round of RMB 1.1 billion, or around $153
The company said this brings its total funding to about $335 million raised in the past two years.In March, Galbot released its flagship
The semi-humanoid mobile manipulator features wheels and two arms
It is designed to automate inventory, replenishment, delivery, and packaging
The company said its artificial intelligence models enable G1 to handle 5,000 different types of goods.Galbot said the robot only takes a
day to deploy into a new store
Currently, nearly 10 stores in Beijing have deployed the robot
The company expects to deploy it into 100 stores across the country within the year.Founded in May 2023, Galbot uses simulated synthetic
action data sets for pre-training and real data for post-training
The Beijing-based company said this approach leads to the rapid iteration of embodied large model technology worldwide.VLA models power G1
robotGalbot said it has developed three proprietary vision-language-action models (VLAs)
The first, released in January 2025, is GraspVLA, which the company described as an “end-to-end” embodied model that is pre-trained on
simulated synthetic data.Also, Galbot said it is working withNVIDIA Isaac Sim, and the model can achieve zero-shot generalization with only
pre-training.Next, it created GroceryVLA, a model for retail commercialization
Galbot said this model solves two key challenges in complex retail environments:Intelligent grasping of many objects: In a scenario
involving complex and densely stacked goods, the model doesn’t need to adjust parameters for each product separately, Galbot said
Whether it be soft bags, hard boxes, bottles, glass containers, plastic packaging, or more, the model enables robots to accurately grasp the
item, the company claimed.High efficiency in scene adaptation: Galbot said the model has strong autonomous decision-making capabilities,
such as dynamically selecting the optimal operation target
It also has anti-interference capabilities, meaning it can deal with accidental displacement or dumping of goods
More importantly, it doesn’t require any scene pre-collecting to deploy.Finally, Galbot offers TrackVLA, a product-level navigation model
The company said it can perform a range of tasks, including pure visual environment perception, comprehension of natural-language commands,
zero-sample generalization in complex scenes, following highly dynamic targets, and more.Galbot invests in collaborationCATL and Puquan
Capital led Galbot’s funding round
Other investors included China Development Bank, China Development Bank Science and Technology Innovation Fund, Beijing Robot Industry Fund,
Qiming Venture Partners, and more.CATL was the core strategic investor
The companies plan to collaborate on developing applications for Galbot’s general embodied intelligence large model and promoting
it.Galbot has also worked to strengthen its ties to the automotive industry
Last month, it announced a joint venture with Boyuan Capital, a subsidiary of the global industrial giant Bosch Group
The startup also signed a tripartite strategic memorandum with Bosch China and Boyuan Capital.The partners said they will focus on
industrial manufacturing and jointly promoting commercial applications for embodied intelligent robots.Save now with early bird discountThe
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