Galbot S1

What it is

Galbot S1 is a heavy-load embodied robot built for industrial, warehousing and logistics work ^[1]. An embodied robot is one whose control software runs on the machine itself and drives a physical body — arms, a base, sensors — rather than acting only on screens or on data. S1 is built around two arms mounted on a mobile base, so the machine can travel to a place, reach for an object and carry it away.

Body, arms and reach

Its two arms can carry up to 50 kg together ^[1]. The robot reaches from the floor up to shelves 2.3 m high ^[1], so it can pick from low positions and from racking above head height without a separate lift. At maximum it stands 1,793 mm tall and it weighs 320 kg ^[1].

Its structure is described in joint counts: two neck joints, seven joints per arm and one lift axis with a 750 mm stroke ^[1]. Seven joints give each arm more freedom than it strictly needs to place an object, which lets it approach a target from different angles; the lift axis moves the arm assembly up and down along a straight vertical path over that fixed range.

Base, batteries and uptime

The chassis is a four-wheel-steering omnidirectional base measuring 730 x 730 mm, with a top speed of 1.5 m/s ^[1]. Four-wheel steering means the wheels can turn independently, so the base can move sideways or rotate in place — useful in narrow aisles where turning around is costly.

Power comes from two 48 V 30 Ah batteries, which charge in 2.0 hours ^[1]. Battery hot-swapping lets the robot run 24 hours a day, seven days a week ^[1]: instead of waiting for a charge, a depleted pack is exchanged for a charged one and the machine goes back to work, so the charging time does not sit in the middle of the working day.

Computing and interface

The computing platform is an NVIDIA AGX Orin 64GB module rated at 275 TOPS ^[1]. TOPS, trillions of operations per second, is a rough measure of how much arithmetic a chip can do in a second; it matters here because perception and motion planning have to run on the robot itself rather than on a remote server. It also has a 7-inch touchscreen and two 5 W speakers ^[1].

Where it sits

S1 sits at the heavy-load end of the mobile manipulator category: the payload is shared across two arms rather than carried by one, and the working volume runs from floor level to 2.3 m ^[1]. Machines of this kind are specified not only by payload and reach but by how they keep working — which is why the hot-swap battery arrangement and the steering base are listed alongside the arm figures. Galbot frames the machine around industrial, warehousing and logistics tasks ^[1].