Galaxea AI
Beijing embodied AI company that builds wheeled dual-arm robots and VLA foundation models used as a development platform by robot-learning labs.
- Galbot raises RMB 1.1 billion in a round led by CATL and Puquan Capital, lifting two-year funding above RMB 2.4 billion
Beijing embodied AI start-up Galbot completed a RMB 1.1 billion financing in June 2025 led by battery maker CATL and Puquan Capital, with China Development Bank's CDB Science and Technology Innovation, the Beijing Robotics Industry Fund and GGV Capital also investing, according to the Zhongguancun Science City administration. The deal took the company's funding over two years past RMB 2.4 billion and gave its synthetic data approach to robot learning a strategic industrial backer.
Mentioned - China writes embodied AI into its Government Work Report for the first time, naming it a future industry
Premier Li Qiang's 2025 Government Work Report, delivered to the National People's Congress on March 5, lists embodied AI alongside biomanufacturing, quantum technology and 6G as future industries Beijing will cultivate, and pledges a funding growth mechanism for them. The same report calls for intelligent robots as a new generation of smart terminals, a year after the 2024 report made no mention of embodied AI.
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