Galaxy General Robotics built the G1 around one differentiation: the most dexterous hands available in a Chinese humanoid robot. The February 4, 2026 Spring Festival Gala executed that differentiation in front of 730 million viewers, Galbot G1 robots rolling walnuts in their palms, picking glass fragments from a surface, and retrieving specific items from dense retail shelving. Fully autonomous. No teleoperation. The tasks were chosen because they require manipulation at the frontier of what robots can do: walnut rolling requires real-time tactile adjustment through in-hand object repositioning, glass fragment picking requires sub-centimeter precision with sub-Newton force control, cluttered shelf retrieval requires selective grasping without disturbing adjacent objects.
Technical Specifications
- Type: wheeled humanoid, omnidirectional base + dual 7-DOF arms
- Height: 173 cm
- Weight: 85 kg
- Total DOF: 47
- Arm DOF: 7 per arm = 14 total (shoulder 3, elbow 1, wrist 3)
- Hand DOF: 12 per hand = 24 total, highest hand DOF of any Chinese humanoid
- Trunk DOF: 3 (torso rotation, lateral bend, height adjustment)
- Minimum object size (fingertip grip): 5 mm
- Grip force range: 0.1 N (fingertip contact detection) to 50 N (power grip)
- Mobile base: omnidirectional 360-degree, 1.5 m/s maximum
- Battery: 6 hours continuous (wheeled energy efficiency)
- AI: Galaxy Embodied Large Model, multimodal (visual + language + action)
- Sensors: stereo head cameras, wrist cameras (both arms), tactile sensors in fingertips
12-DOF Hand: Technical Breakdown
Human hands have approximately 27 DOF (21 in fingers, 6 in wrist). Galbot G1 hands reach 12 DOF, closer to human kinematics than any competing Chinese humanoid:
- Thumb: 3 DOF, CMC flexion/extension, abduction/adduction; MCP flexion
- Index finger: 2 DOF, MCP flexion/extension, PIP flexion
- Middle finger: 2 DOF, same as index
- Ring finger: 2 DOF, same as index
- Little finger: 2 DOF, same + MCP abduction
- Finger coupling: ring and little optionally coupled for power grip, independent for precision tasks
The 12 DOF enables grip topologies impossible for lower-DOF hands: lateral pinch (thumb against index side), three-jaw chuck, spherical grip, and in-hand object rotation, repositioning objects within the palm without releasing and re-grasping. Walnut rolling demonstrated in the Spring Festival Gala required in-hand object rotation: the walnut rolls between fingers and palm through coordinated micro-movements of all 5 fingers simultaneously. This separates dexterous manipulation robots from basic gripper robots.
Galaxy Embodied Large Model
Galbot’s proprietary AI processes stereo camera streams, natural language task instructions, and robot state data in a single multimodal context. The model is developed from Galaxy General Robotics own architecture and training data accumulated from BAIC and CATL production deployments, not a fine-tuned foundation model from an external provider. The Gala performance demonstrates the model executing unscripted dexterous manipulation in a live broadcast where retries were not possible.
Production Deployments and Results
- BAIC Group: automotive manufacturing, body assembly assistance and component transport
- CATL: battery manufacturing, cell handling, tray sorting, quality inspection
- World Humanoid Robot Games 2025, Medical Scene: sorted all 9 medicine boxes in 10 minutes 22 seconds, zero errors, championship result
- Spring Festival Gala 2026: fully autonomous performance before 730M viewers, February 4, 2026
Funding and Commercial Status
- December 2025 funding: over $300M, largest single humanoid robot investment at the time
- HK IPO: Citic Securities, Huatai Securities, UBS managing, application expected 2026
- Production units: thousands delivered to BAIC and CATL combined
Spring Festival Gala context: Galbot G1 at Spring Festival Gala. Full ranking: Top 40 China Robot Rankings 2025.
