One-line positioning: A Beijing embodied-AI company co-founded by PKU professor Wang He, championing wheeled-base dual-arm general manipulation — the most research-driven team in the Chinese scene.
Key facts: Founded 2023 by Wang He (PKU assistant professor, known for GraspNet and World Models research). Multiple rounds raised (hundreds of millions RMB per public reports). Academic pedigree is the brand: research-driven rather than engineering-driven.
Products & tech: Galbot G1 — a wheeled dual-arm robot for pick-and-place tasks (retail, kitting, sorting), with vision-language-model-driven grasping grounded in the lab's GraspNet/World Models lineage; real-scene + synthetic data. Pilots in retail picking.
Market position: The standard-bearer of the "wheeled is enough and faster" thesis versus humanoid-first rivals (AGIBOT, UBTECH). Investor watchpoint: speed of ROI in real commercial settings.
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