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Galaxea R1

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.

Galaxea R1 is a humanoid robot built by Galaxea AI.

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
humanoid
Maturity stage
research
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
fffcce26-d6f6-403c-9e8d-aefff3d8a211

Specs

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specs
Galaxea R1: humanoid upper body (two 6-DoF A1 arms + G1 grippers, 4-DoF torso) on a three-wheel steering base; ~2 m vertical range, 700 mm horizontal radius; variants R1 Lite / R1 / R1 Pro; ~$44.5k-$64k. Galaxea A1: standalone 6-DoF arm. Bipedal version stated as planned.
formFactor
humanoid (wheeled dual-arm humanoid: humanoid upper body on a three-wheel steering chassis)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (4)

  1. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-02/robot-startup-galaxea-ai-raises-291-million-102430297.html
  2. https://www.thewirechina.com/whos_who/gao-jiyang-%E9%AB%98%E7%BB%A7%E6%89%AC/
  3. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-02-12/galaxea-ai-raises-144-million-as-chinas-robot-investment-frenzy-mounts-102413767.html
  4. https://userguide-galaxea.github.io/Product_User_Guide/Introducing_Galaxea_Robot/product_info/R1/

Common questions

What is Galaxea R1?
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.
Who makes Galaxea R1?
Galaxea R1 is made by Galaxea AI, based in Beijing, China, founded in 2023.
Where is Galaxea R1 deployed?
No verified deployments of Galaxea R1 are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
What is Galaxea R1's maturity stage?
Galaxea R1 is at the research stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Research stage means active development without commercial deployments on file.