- Galbot has completed a new round of financing worth 2.5 billion yuan ($363 million), led by state-backed capital.
- Galbot has solidified its position as China's highest-valued unlisted humanoid robotics company.
Chinese embodied intelligence startup Galbot announced on Monday the completion of a new financing round totaling 2.5 billion yuan ($363 million).
The round was led by the National AI Industry Investment Fund (Phase III of the National Fund), marking the first time China's national fund has invested in this sector.
Other participants included Sinopec, CITIC Investment Holdings, Bank of China, and SAIC Financial Holdings. This comes just two months after the company's previous round of over $300 million.
Following this funding, Galbot's cumulative financing has solidified its position as the leader in China's embodied intelligence sector. The company has also reinforced its status as China's highest-valued unlisted humanoid robot company.
Founded in 2023 by Peking University researcher Wang He, Galbot is dedicated to developing embodied large models that enable robots to autonomously perceive, decide, and act within the physical world.
Galbot has built the world's largest embodied intelligence dataset, exceeding 10 billion data points. The company pioneered a hybrid training paradigm centered on synthetic simulation data, significantly enhancing robotic training efficiency and generalization capabilities.
Technologically, Galbot introduced the world's first end-to-end embodied large model integrating "brain-cerebellum-neural control" architecture. This model bridges the entire chain from multimodal perception to real-time feedback control.
Galbot's technology is currently deployed across multiple real-world scenarios. In industrial applications, its heavy-duty robots have achieved fully autonomous routine operations at CATL's (HKG: 3750, SHE: 300750) battery factories, securing cumulative orders for thousands of units.
On the consumer front, the company's "Galaxy Space Capsule" convenience stores have deployed over 100 units across more than 20 cities in China. Additionally, its smart pharmacies and on-demand retail warehouses are operational in multiple cities.
The new funding round will unlock new opportunities for Galbot's diversified applications across energy, manufacturing, and real estate sectors. Bolstered by capital, the company is accelerating the transformation of embodied intelligence technology into tangible productivity.
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