Deployment

Galaxea AI (Chinese name Xinghai Tu; founded September 2023 in Beijing) is an embodied-AI startup that builds both foundation models and hardware, led by CEO Gao Jiyang, who previously worked on perception at Waymo and production autonomous-driving systems at Momenta and holds a USC PhD, with co-founder and co-chief scientist Xu Huazhe, a Tsinghua robotics professor. Its main robot, the R1, is a wheeled dual-arm humanoid: a humanoid upper body with two 6-degree-of-freedom A1 arms, G1 grippers, and a 4-degree-of-freedom torso on a three-wheel steering chassis, offering about 2 m of vertical range, sold in R1 Lite, R1, and R1 Pro variants priced from roughly $44,500 to $64,000, alongside the standalone A1 arm. It raised about $144 million in a Series B in February 2026 and about $291 million in a Series B+ in April 2026, pushing its valuation above 20 billion yuan, around $2.8 billion. An important disambiguation: Galaxea AI is a distinct company from Galbot, which is already in the registry, with different founders, products, and backers, and the two must not be merged. The registry records it at research maturity moving toward early pilot, since the R1 is a genuinely shippable and priced robot but its more than forty named clients, including ByteDance, Samsung, Stanford, and MIT, are self-reported research and development buyers rather than verified operational deployments. The widely circulated $29 billion valuation is a data error, a misread of roughly 20 billion yuan, and is excluded here.

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