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 listed at $39,999 to $69,999 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an actual sale price on record.

Galaxea R1 is at the research stage: it exists, but DEPLOY has no verified real-world deployment on record. Manufacturer capability claims should be read as claims pending independent verification.

Not verified as fully autonomous. Galaxea R1's capabilities on the DEPLOY registry are recorded as teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-only, or vendor claims (Picks and packs), not independently confirmed to run without a human in the loop.

Galaxea R1's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Degrees of freedom: Two 6-DoF A1 arms, 4-DoF torso; Height: 200; Payload: 5. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Galaxea R1 is made by Galaxea AI, based in Beijing, China, founded in 2023.

Galaxea R1 is available for purchase - a real sale price is on record (see the pricing section for the figure and its source).

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable humanoid robots to Galaxea R1 include Walker S2, Digit, Unitree G1, Atlas.

Galaxea R1 and Walker S2 (UBTech Robotics · 18 deployments) are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. Galaxea R1 has 0 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Galaxea R1 ranks in roughly the top 61% of humanoid models tracked by the registry.

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.

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.

Galaxea R1 has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.