{"id":"fffcce26-d6f6-403c-9e8d-aefff3d8a211","companyId":"872399b4-b0fa-4129-bdfc-31d4897fb994","modelName":"Galaxea R1","slug":"galaxea-r1","description":"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.","formFactor":"humanoid","maturityStage":"research","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Galaxea AI (Chinese 'Xinghai Tu'; founded Sept 2023, Beijing; CEO Gao Jiyang, ex-Waymo/Momenta, USC PhD; co-founder/co-CSO Xu Huazhe, Tsinghua) builds embodied-AI foundation models + hardware (the R1 wheeled dual-arm humanoid and A1 arm). Raised ~$144M Series B (Feb 2026) then ~$291M Series B+ (Apr 2026), pushing valuation above 20B yuan (~$2.8B). R1 is a real, purchasable, documented product."},{"label":"DISAMBIGUATION","value":"Galaxea AI is a DIFFERENT company from Galbot (already in the registry): different founders (Gao Jiyang vs Wang He), products, and backers. The Wire China lists them as separate entries. Do NOT merge."},{"label":"Maturity = research -> early pilot","value":"R1 is a genuinely shippable, priced robot (strongest of the emerging-CN cohort on 'is it real'). But its 40+ named 'clients' (ByteDance, Samsung, Stanford, MIT, etc.) are self-reported/website-sourced R&D/dev-platform buyers, not verified operational deployments. maturityStage=research (with credible early pilot adoption)."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified / data error","value":"EXCLUDE the '$29B / CNY200B' valuation - a misread of ~20B yuan (~$2.8B); use the yuan figure. The 40+ clients as operational deployments (website-sourced); the '1,000 R1 units by end of 2025' target; the planned bipedal humanoid (announced, not shipped); 'cleans bathrooms / plays guitar' demos."}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-02/robot-startup-galaxea-ai-raises-291-million-102430297.html","title":"Galaxea AI raises ~$291M (Apr 2026; valuation above 20B yuan)","sourceName":"Caixin Global"},{"url":"https://www.thewirechina.com/whos_who/gao-jiyang-%E9%AB%98%E7%BB%A7%E6%89%AC/","title":"Gao Jiyang (Galaxea CEO, ex-Waymo/Momenta); Galaxea distinct from Galbot","sourceName":"The Wire China"},{"url":"https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-02-12/galaxea-ai-raises-144-million-as-chinas-robot-investment-frenzy-mounts-102413767.html","title":"Galaxea AI raises ~$144M Series B (Feb 2026)","sourceName":"Caixin Global"},{"url":"https://userguide-galaxea.github.io/Product_User_Guide/Introducing_Galaxea_Robot/product_info/R1/","title":"Galaxea R1 product user guide (wheeled dual-arm humanoid specs)","sourceName":"Galaxea (official)"}],"aliases":["Galaxea R1","Galaxea A1","Xinghai Tu R1"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:24:07.003Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T19:24:07.003Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/galaxea-r1","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/galaxea-r1","name":"Galaxea R1","alternateName":["Galaxea R1","Galaxea A1","Xinghai Tu R1"],"description":"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.","identifier":"fffcce26-d6f6-403c-9e8d-aefff3d8a211","category":"humanoid","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}