Galaxea preps G0.5 MAX and a new robot as it chases 10,000-unit deliveries
At the World Robot Conference in Beijing, Galaxea AI (星海图) laid out the most concrete plan yet for turning embodied-AI models into an actual production system — and put numbers on it. Chief scientist Hang Zhao said the company's G0.5 foundation model beat industry SOTA across eight benchmarks including LIBERO and RoboTwin 2.0, and confirmed that a stronger G0.5 MAX version is about to ship. Just as notable: the startup is opening up, launching a "G0.5 reproduction program" that gives outside researchers full model weights, inference interfaces, evaluation suites, and fine-tuning tools — a bet that open ecosystem-building, not secrecy, wins the embodied race.
Two more pieces of the stack got upgrades. Galaxea previewed Fast-WAM, a world model that skips generating future video frames entirely and cuts single-step inference latency from roughly 800ms to 190ms — over 4x faster — with a pretrained version to follow; fast world models are what let robots react at physical-world speeds rather than demo speeds. And its new G-Fleet distributed RL system closes the loop for deployed fleets: policy rollout on real robots, data flowing back, retraining, and automatic version releases.
The hardware side got the spotlight too: Nexo, a next-gen wheeled dual-arm flagship with 20kg peak payload per arm, 8-hour battery with hot-swap, plus the legged Kengo for rough terrain (energy, inspection) and Lemo, a cheap desktop dual-arm rig for developers. COO Tianwei Li said Galaxea has already delivered thousand-unit-scale orders of model-driven robots and targets 10,000+ units next year. Roundtables added a useful dose of skepticism — DynaRobotics' Yang Shiyuan noted that pretraining on a million hours of human video actually lowered test accuracy, a reminder that watching humans and doing tasks are very different skills.
What to watch: whether G0.5 MAX's benchmark gains survive contact with real customer sites — Galaxea says mass commercial deployment is close, and 10,000 units is the number that will prove or break that claim.
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