Galaxea Humanoid

R1 Series wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot from Galaxea AI

Galaxea Humanoid

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Overview

ItemDetails
ManufacturerGalaxea AI (星海图, Suzhou, China)
TypeWheeled Dual-arm Humanoid
FoundedSeptember 2023 (team from Tsinghua/Stanford)
ComputingNVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB
Price Range$44,500 ~ $64,000 (varies by model)
Key CustomersHuawei Cloud, Volkswagen, Haier, Samsung, ByteDance, Physical Intelligence, Stanford, MIT 1

Note: Price and specification information is as of H2 2025 and may change.

Key Significance

The Galaxea R1 series holds important significance as a research and industrial humanoid platform.

Improved Research Accessibility

  • Competitive Price: R1 series priced at approximately $44,500~$64,000, competitive compared to Figure 02 ($100K+) or Unitree H1 ($90,000)
  • Full Features: Offers full specs including 26 DoF, 7 HD cameras, LiDAR, force sensors
  • Various Teleoperation: Easy data collection with Isomorphic and VR remote operation support

Advantages of Wheel-Based Design

  • Stability: No risk of falling compared to walking types
  • Data Quality: Can collect manipulation data on stable platform
  • Practicality: Immediately usable in research/industrial environments

Ecosystem Support

  • Over 40 corporate/research institution customers secured
  • Adopted by AI research groups including Physical Intelligence, Stanford, MIT
  • Used for algorithm training, robot deployment, Embodied AI data collection

Product Lineup Comparison

Legend: O = Supported, X = Not Supported, N/A = Information Not Available

ItemR1 ProR1R1 Lite
DoF262423
ArmsDual 7-axisDual 6-axis (A1)Dual 6-axis
Payload10kgN/AN/A
Reach64cm70cm70cm
Max Height2m2m1.7m
GripperMulti-jointG1 Gripper2-finger
Cameras7 HD + LiDAR7 HD + LiDARDual
Wrist CameraOXX
Force SensorOXX
Voice InteractionOXX
VR TeleopOOX
Isomorphic TeleopOOO
Price~$44,500+N/A~$40,000

Note: R1 series prices range from $44,500 to $64,000 depending on configuration and options. The company aims to ship approximately 1,000 units by end of 2025.

R1 Pro Details

ItemSpec
DoF26 DoF
Arm ConfigurationDual 7-DoF, 10kg payload each
Reach64cm (single arm), floor to 2m reach
Sensors7 HD cameras + 1 LiDAR + wrist cameras
Force SensorIntegrated
ComputingNVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB (200 TOPS)
Chassis3-wheel vector steering
TeleoperationIsomorphic + VR
Price~$44,500+ (varies by configuration)

R1 Details

ItemSpec
DoF24 DoF
Arm ConfigurationDual 6-DoF Galaxea A1 arms
GripperGalaxea G1 Gripper
Torso4-DoF
Reach70cm
Max Height2m
Chassis3-wheel vector steering
Sensors7 HD cameras + 1 LiDAR
ExpandabilityExternal sensor interface support

R1 Lite Details

ItemSpec
DoF23 DoF
Arm ConfigurationDual 6-axis
Reach70cm
Base Height128cm
Max Height (extended)1.7m
Weight96kg
Movement Speed5.4 km/h
Sensors360-degree LiDAR + Dual cameras
Gripper2-finger
TeleoperationIsomorphic
UseData collection platform
Price~$40,000

Teleoperation

The Galaxea R1 series supports two teleoperation methods.

Isomorphic Remote Operation (R1-T Platform)

R1-T is a dedicated remote operation platform designed as a miniature replica of R1.

FeatureDescription
Full-body MappingAll joints 1:1 synchronized
PrecisionMillimeter level
Response SpeedMillisecond level
Force FeedbackForce transmission from robot to operator

Use Cases:

  • High-precision manipulation data collection
  • Delicate task training demos
  • Research dataset construction

VR Remote Operation

Immersive remote operation system using Meta Quest 3 VR headset.

FeatureDescription
HeadsetMeta Quest 3
Hand TrackingSupported
Visual FeedbackReal-time streaming from robot head camera
Full-body SyncSupported
PrecisionMillimeter level

Operation Methods:

  • Control robot arms with hand movements
  • First-person view through head camera
  • Hold B button for 2+ seconds to exit

Standard Remote Controller

Analog stick-based standard controller also supported.

FunctionDescription
Chassis MovementAnalog sticks
Torso ControlSupported
Emergency StopSupported
Mode SwitchingSWA/SWB/SWC/SWD switches

Company Information

Galaxea AI (星海图)

ItemDetails
FoundedSeptember 2023
HeadquartersSuzhou, China
Mission”Serving 10 billion humans with 10 billion robots”
Valuation$700M (as of August 2025) 2
Total Investment~$210M (~1.5 billion RMB) 2

Founding Team

  • Jiyang Gao (高继扬) - CEO 3

    • Tsinghua EE undergraduate, USC PhD
    • Waymo, Momenta autonomous driving experience
    • Google, SenseTime internships

  • Huazhe Xu - Co-founder/CSO 3

    • Stanford Postdoc, UC Berkeley PhD
    • Tsinghua Assistant Professor
    • CoRL’23 Best System Paper Award

Investors

Over 30 investors including Meituan, IDG Capital, Baidu Ventures participated. 2

AI Model

G0 Model - Galaxea’s self-developed VLA (Vision-Language-Action) model 4

  • G0-VLM: Multimodal planner for high-level reasoning and subtask planning
  • G0-VLA: Real-time executor for precise low-level action control
  • Galaxea Open-World Dataset: 500 hours of high-quality data collected across 150+ tasks in 50 scenes
  • 3-stage curriculum learning: Cross-embodiment pre-training -> Single-embodiment pre-training -> Task-specific post-training

Future Plans

  • Bipedal walking humanoid planned for release in 2026
  • Goal of popularizing home humanoids within 10 years

Technology Stack

Hardware

ComponentSpecification
ComputingNVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB
CPU8-core
GPU200 TOPS
Chassis3-wheel vector steering
SensorsLiDAR, HD cameras, force sensors

Software

ItemSupport
ROS1O
ROS2O
SDKPython, C++
DocumentationOfficial guides provided

Competitor Comparison

RobotManufacturerTypePriceDoF
R1 ProGalaxea AIWheeled~$44,500+26
Galbot G1Galbot (银河通用)WheeledN/AN/A
G1UnitreeWalking~$16,00023
H1UnitreeWalking~$90,000N/A
Figure 02Figure AIWalking~$100,000+N/A

Note: Galbot (银河通用机器人 / Galaxy General Robot) is a separate Chinese robotics company from Galaxea AI (星海图). Galbot was founded by Wang He (He Wang), while Galaxea AI was founded by Jiyang Gao.

See Also

References

Footnotes

  1. Forbes via Yahoo Finance - Galaxea AI Raises $100M ↩

  2. Benzinga - Galaxea AI Raises $100M at $700M Valuation ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. The Wire China - Gao Jiyang Profile ↩ ↩2

  4. Galaxea G0 - Open-World Dataset and Dual-System VLA Model ↩