Galbot 银河通用
China’s most valuable unlisted humanoid robotics startup, deploying wheeled two-armed robots in retail and logistics at scale.
At a glance
Europe status
Galbot: 0 — No footprint
Rated only on confirmed evidence listed below; status 2026-10-26.
Evidence for the Europe status
Only confirmed, sourced steps count. Announcements without follow-through are listed as declared interest at most.
- No European office, entity, distributor or job listing.
Physical presence None found. No European office, entity, distributor or job listing.
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - No confirmed European customers or partners.
European customers or partners None confirmed in Europe. The Bosch link is a joint venture with Bosch’s investment arm in China, set up to commercialise industrial robots; we found no report of it operating outside China.
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - Bosch is a named industrial client.
Among its named industrial clients are Bosch and Toyota .
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What we know
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- Galbot operates robot-run kiosks in over 40 Chinese cities.
Its robot-run kiosks operate in more than 40 Chinese cities, and its robots run pharmacy stockrooms around the clock.
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - Galbot was founded in May 2023 by Wang He.
Galbot — Beijing Galbot Co., Ltd., 银河通用 in Chinese — was founded in May 2023 by Wang He, a Peking University researcher and Stanford graduate who studies embodied AI
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - Valuation $3 billion post-money after December 2025 round.
Valuation $3 billion post-money after the December 2025 round (Caixin).
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - Galbot’s G1 robot is a wheeled, two-armed robot for picking, packing, and handing over items.
The G1 is a wheeled robot with two arms, built to pick items off shelves, pack them and hand them over.
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - The S1 robot, launched January 2026, is for industrial and logistics work.
The S1, launched in January 2026, is a heavier wheeled two-arm robot for industrial and logistics work; in March the company announced successful tests on CATL production lines
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - Galbot’s AstraBrain is a proprietary in-house model for robot control.company claim
Behind both sits a family of in-house models the company calls AstraBrain, which it describes as an end-to-end model for the robot’s “brain”, “cerebellum” and motor control (company website).
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - Galbot’s Space Capsule kiosks are running at more than 170 sites in over 40 cities.
Galbot’s “Space Capsule” kiosks — small robot-staffed shops — are running at more than 170 sites in over 40 cities, from the Summer Palace in Beijing to Chunxi Road in Chengdu, according to senior vice president Zeng Hui at the World Robot Conference in August (Sina Finance).
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe - Three kiosks opened in Hong Kong on 1 September 2026.
Three opened in Hong Kong on 1 September (The Standard).
Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe
Key number
1,100+
units shipped H1 2026
Source: our reporting — “Counterpoint Research counts more than 1,100 Galbot units shipped in the first half of 2026 — about 5 per cent of a global market of some 22,000 humanoid robots, third behind AgiBot and Unitree.”
Products and models
Products: G1, S1, Space Capsule kiosk
Models: AstraBrain
European partners: Bosch
Europe entry steps
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Galbot: China’s Robot Shopkeeper Is Everywhere at Home and Nowhere in Europe