Galbot picks up $153M to commercialize G1 semi-humanoid - The Robot Report

Galbot, a Beijing-based robotics startup founded in May 2023, has raised approximately $153 million (RMB 1.1 billion) in its latest funding round, bringing its total capital raised over the past two years to about $335 million. The company recently launched its flagship semi-humanoid robot, the G1, which features wheels and two arms designed to automate tasks such as inventory management, replenishment, delivery, and packaging. The G1 robot is capable of handling 5,000 different types of goods and can be deployed in new stores within a day. Currently, nearly 10 stores in Beijing use the robot, with plans to expand deployment to 100 stores nationwide within the year. Galbot’s technology is powered by three proprietary vision-language-action (VLA) models: GraspVLA, GroceryVLA, and TrackVLA. GraspVLA, pre-trained on synthetic data, enables zero-shot generalization for robotic grasping. GroceryVLA