CategoryHumanoids
Overview
Chinese Embodied intelligence and humanoid robotics company (also known as Galaxea AI) founded in September 2023, with R&D in Beijing and manufacturing in Suzhou. The company builds the R1 series wheeled humanoid robots, the Kengo bipedal humanoid, and the A1X robotic arm platform, alongside its G0 AI model for robot reasoning and task execution.
Backed by over 420 million USD in total funding, Galaxea has reached unicorn status with a valuation of approximately 1.4 billion USD following its Series B round in February 2026.
Reality check
Products (company-claimed)
R1 Pro wheeled humanoid, Kengo 170 cm biped, A1X arm and G0 AI model.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Founders (reported, unconfirmed)
Legal name (reported, unconfirmed)
Funding (sources differ)
Valuation (reported, unconfirmed)
Investors (reported, unconfirmed)
R1 price (reported, unconfirmed)
Customers (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
3
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Galaxea Dynamics on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Oct 2024. Explore where Galaxea Dynamics's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Galaxea Dynamics deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- Gao Jiyang CEO, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Xu Huazhe Co-founder & Co-Chief Science Officer, Co-Chief Science Officersecondary-verified
- Zhao Hang Co-founder & Co-Chief Science Officer, Co-Chief Science Officersecondary-verified
- Li Tianwei Co-founder & COO, COOsecondary-verified
Founders (4)
- Zhao Hangcofounderno longer at company
- Xu Huazhecofounderno longer at company
- Li Tianweicofounderno longer at company
- Gao Jiyangcofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Galaxea Dynamics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Galaxea Dynamics3 deployments
Recent coverage
Galaxea Dynamics in third-party press
Peers
91 peers across 1 segment. Every Galaxea Dynamics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
humanoid(91)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Anyverse Dynamicsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- CASBOTdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- DISCOVER Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Enigmadirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Galaxea AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Financial state
- Total funding
- $240.0M
- Employees
- 100
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Funding rounds (1)
- Series B2026-02-12
$140M(reported)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Galaxea Dynamics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2026-02-11Series B raising $140000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2025-07-31Series A raising $100000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedOct 1, 2024
Galaxea R1 Pro at Suzhou, China
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Galaxea R1 Pro at Stanford, California, USA
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Galaxea R1 Pro at Beijing, China
Sources (4)
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Galaxea Dynamics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Galaxea Dynamics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Welcome, NEXO!
NEXO is a 168 cm, 85 kg wheeled humanoid robot from Galaxea Dynamics, designed for commercial services, logistics, and manufacturing environments. Its 30 total degrees of freedom,…
Galaxea AI: Funding, Team & Investors
Startup Intros profiles Galaxea AI, covering its 1.4B unicorn valuation, 420M total funding, Series B round, and investors including Baidu Ventures, GSR Ventures, IDG, Capital…
The 700 Million Chinese Robot Startup That Wants To Take On Tesla
Forbes profiles Galaxea AI, covering its 700M valuation, Series A funding, R1 humanoid robot, founding team of Gao Jiyang, Zhao Hang, Xu Huazhe, and Li Tianwei, and ambitions to…
Galaxea Dynamics raises 100M for embodied AI robots
Grishin Robotics reports Galaxea Dynamics raised 100M in Series A funding, pushing total raised past 210M with a valuation near 700M.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/galaxea-dynamics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/galaxea-dynamics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/036a43d1-acac-4191-9327-fe5f6bb2269a
- Revision history: /companies/galaxea-dynamics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Video
Meet Kengo — a sleek, powerful bipedal humanoid robot developed by Galaxea Dynamics, a Beijing-based embodied AI company founded in 2023 by Tsinghua University
Those are some of the humanoid robots that I encountered at the CES 2026 in Las Vegas. The video shows humanoids from the following manufacturers: AgiBot AeiRO
With upgraded appearance and structural iteration! The all-new shell is bend-resistant and wear-resistant, paired with a minimalist design featuring hidden cam
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🏠Get ready for a futuristic home makeover! 🏠 🎉The R1 Lite-based platform, under the π-0.5 model, has successfully performed complex and long-horizon tasks !
Galaxea R1 Series — All-New 2026 Upgrade. Engineered for precision to set the standard. Built for dynamics to deliver reliability. Designed for dexterity to bre
From "memorizing a task" to "learning how to act." Zero-shot deployment → robots think and act on the fly. Atomic skills → grasp, push, pull, open, close. Few-s
🤖 Have you ever wondered what capabilities robots need to truly assist us with household tasks? 🏠 The Stanford team led by Li Feifei utilized the Galaxea R1 r
Our #ces2026 debut is here. • R1 Lite × Pick Up Anything—the world’s first out of box VLA Model Experience • Dexo dexterous hand—global first reveal • R1 Pro—r
We have built the world's first high-quality real-robot dataset for open scenarios, the Galaxea Open-World Dataset, and proposed a dual-system architecture with
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Galaxea Dynamics draws attention at the 43rd percentile but verifies reality at the 51st percentile among humanoids. Hype Gap -7.3, 71st widest among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 3 verified deployments. Well-capitalized with $140M raised and recent funding activity. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 3, 2026