Galbot's first bipedal humanoid opens for pre-order — no price attached
Galbot — the Beijing maker better known for the wheeled G1 humanoid working pharmacy shifts — opened nationwide pre-orders on September 3 for its first bipedal model, the ET1, nicknamed “Xingzai.” The company says it took more than 200 orders in the first 24 hours, over 100 of them through JD.com.
ET1 debuted at the World Robot Conference in August doing street-dance routines: handstands, headstands, real-time mirroring of a human dancer’s moves. Galbot frames it as a “native agent” robot — its own embodied model, trained on 100,000 hours of human motion data, generating movement and speech on the fly rather than replaying pre-scripted routines. The stated target market is tourism guiding, live performance and commercial exhibitions, not the factory floor.
What Galbot hasn’t said, in its own announcement or anywhere else we can find, is what any of this costs. Chinese coverage of the pre-order rush doesn’t cite a price either — buyers are apparently reserving a unit before a number exists. That’s an unusual sequence even by humanoid-robot standards, where preorder-before-shipping is common but preorder-before-pricing is not.
It’s also a gap for a company that otherwise has real prices on the board: Galbot’s existing catalog runs from the S1 industrial arm-on-wheels up through the G1, which sold out on JD.com after a Spring Festival Gala appearance earlier this year. Until Galbot attaches a number to the ET1, the honest answer to “how much” is that nobody outside the company knows yet — 200 pre-orders notwithstanding.
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- Galbot official press release (WeChat) (mp.weixin.qq.com)