I am Stella Qian. The Galbot G1 has the best hands of any Chinese humanoid I have tested. Here is my review.
What is the Galbot G1?
Galaxy General Robotics (星河智能) is based in Beijing. The G1 is a wheeled humanoid with a dual 7-DOF arm system and 12-DOF hands, the most articulated hands in this category. During the 2026 Spring Festival Gala in February, Galbot G1 robots performed live on stage in front of 730 million viewers. They rolled walnuts in their palms, picked glass fragments from a surface, and retrieved items from dense retail shelving. All fully autonomous, no teleoperation. That demonstration set a public benchmark for manipulation that no other humanoid has matched since.
Specifications
- Base: wheeled, omnidirectional
- Arms: dual 7-DOF
- Total DOF: 47
- Hand DOF: 12 per hand
- Force sensing: sub-Newton resolution
- Speed: 1.5 m/s
- Payload: 5 kg per arm
- Battery: 3.5 hours
- Price: from $60,000
Advantages
Best hands available. 12 DOF per hand is the highest of any humanoid in production right now. This enables walnut rolling, glass fragment picking, and selective grasping from cluttered shelves. If manipulation is your primary task, nothing else compares.
47 total DOF. The arm-plus-hand combination gives the G1 a range of motion that covers almost any manipulation task a human worker would perform. For assembly, sorting, and precise retrieval, this is the most capable system.
Proven public demo. The Spring Festival Gala performance was not a controlled lab test. It was live television in front of 730 million viewers. The Galbot team had one chance to get it right. They did.
Wheeled stability. Like the AgiBot G2, the wheeled base removes balance as a constraint. The G1 can focus its compute on arm control instead of gait management.
Disadvantages
No stairs. The wheeled base cannot handle stairs, ramps over 10 degrees, or uneven terrain. If your facility has mixed levels, you need a different robot for those areas.
Price. At $60,000, the G1 costs four times the Unitree G1. The hand system is the main reason. If your task does not need 12-DOF hands, you are paying for capability you will not use.
Limited production deployment data. The Spring Festival demo is impressive, but production records are fewer than AgiBot. If you need a robot with a long track record in factories, the AgiBot G2 has more data behind it.
My verdict
The Galbot G1 is the best robot for any task where hand dexterity is the critical requirement. Assembly with small parts, precision sorting, and manipulation in cluttered spaces are where it wins clearly.
For standard factory tasks that do not need 12-DOF hands, the AgiBot G2 at $40,000 delivers similar overall capability for less money.
More information on the Galbot official page. Our full technical breakdown is on the Galbot G1 page on Robots Maker.
