cleaning
Stocks shelves, picks and delivers products in stores
Real-world demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- Remote exception handling; extent undisclosed
Research record R-025Pilot deployment
Galbot G1
By Galbot · China · announced June 2024
The wheeled Chinese semi-humanoid quietly staffing convenience stores while the bipeds do backflips.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
Galbot's G1 is a wheeled, dual-arm semi-humanoid from the Beijing startup founded in 2023 out of Peking University robotics research. At about 173 centimeters and 85 kilograms with 47 degrees of freedom and a claimed 10-hour battery, it is built for a specific, unglamorous job: fetching, stocking and handing over items in retail spaces.
Galbot has publicized unmanned and robot-assisted store deployments in China, where G1 units pick products and fulfill orders, and claims grasp success rates around 95 to 97 percent across more than 5,000 object types, figures that remain company-reported. The company made its US debut at CES 2026 amid a record 38 humanoid exhibitors.
No public pricing exists; deployments run through partnerships. The G1's case for this database is as the leading example of humanoids entering retail service rather than factories or living rooms.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Real-world demo
Company-publicized retail store deployments in China; independent counts unavailable
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
1 material claim are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Real-world demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
Hardware record.
- Height
- 173 cm
- Weight
- 85 kg
- Locomotion
- Wheeled base
- Payload
- Retail item handling; per-arm figures unpublished
- Runtime
- About 10 hours (claimed)
- Charging
- Dock
- Top speed
- Indoor service speeds
- Degrees of freedom
- 47
- Hands
- Two-finger and suction end effectors
- Face / expression
- Sensor head; no expressive face
- Sensors
- RGB-D cameras, lidar
Software record.
- AI platform
- Galbot foundation models for grasping (GraspVLA lineage)
- Voice
- Service interactions via kiosk and app
- Languages
- Chinese
- Visual recognition
- Product recognition across 5,000+ SKUs (claimed)
- Memory
- Store inventory models
- Processing
- Onboard plus cloud
- Autonomous abilities
- Autonomous picking and stocking in deployed stores (company evidence)
- Teleoperation
- Supported for exceptions
- Software updates
- Fleet updates
- Developer access
- Enterprise
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Enterprise-controlled
- Remote operation possible
- Yes
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not disclosed in stores
- Camera / microphone controls
- Operator controlled
- Data deletion
- Contract governed
- Account required
- Enterprise
- Emergency stop
- E-stop
- Children and pets
- Operates around the public at low speeds
- Security updates
- Enterprise support
Open questions
Disputed or unverified.
- Grasp success rates and store deployment counts are company-reported without independent verification
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Public demonstration
G1 revealed
- Pilot deployment
Retail deployments publicized in China
- Pilot deployment
US debut at CES 2026
Source register
1 linked source.
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