GALAXEA

Company Overview

Founded in September 2023, StarHaiMap (Beijing) Artificial Intelligence Technology Co.embodied intelligenceWith the mission of "Serving the Human World", the company is committed to building a world-leading innovative enterprise with embodied intelligence solutions. Based in China and with a global outlook, the company has launched standard products such as universal humanoid robots and wheeled dual-arm mobile platforms through the technology path of "collaborative research and development of AI algorithms and ontology", and constructed a full-link embodied intelligence development platform. Through the technology path of "collaborative R&D of AI algorithm and ontology", the company has launched standard products such as universal humanoid robot and wheeled double-arm mobile platform, and constructed a full-link development platform of embodied intelligence. Its concept of "one brain, multiple shapes" and closed-loop model of commercialization have been highly recognized by the capital market, and the cumulative financing has amounted to nearly RMB 1.5 billion by July 2025, with the valuation more than tripled compared with that of the beginning of the year.

Core Team

GALAXEA's core team brings together top talents from academia and industry, including founder and CEO Jiyang Gao and co-founder Huazhe Xu. Jiyang Gao graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in Electronics and received his Ph.D. from USC IRIS Computer Vision Lab at the University of Southern California, where he was involved in a machine learning-based behavior prediction project at Waymo. Huazhe Xu received his postdoctoral degree from Stanford University and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He is currently an assistant professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Cross-Information Studies, and is the winner of the best system paper at CoRL'23, the top conference on intelligent robotics.

Technical Philosophy

GALAXEA believes that the key performance of embodied intelligence lies in "one brain, many shapes", i.e., the hardware body is the only carrier of AI algorithm, and the AI algorithm is the most critical "brain" of the hardware body, and only through the synergy of the two can we create outstanding intelligent body products. Based on this, the company adheres to the development idea of collaborative research and development of AI algorithms and ontology, sets up ontology form from demand, and designs and manufactures ontology independently.

Product System

StarHaitu has launched several standard platform products, including:

• Universal Humanoid Robot R1 Pro: Highly intelligent and diversified forms, capable of adapting to complex environments and performing multiple tasks.
• Wheeled dual-arm mobile platform R1 lite: Lightweight and flexible, suitable for a variety of scenarios in the mobile operation needs.

In addition, the company has built a full-link embodied intelligent development platform EDP, integrating data acquisition, data management, real machine testing and other functions, significantly reducing the threshold of embodied intelligent robot development and data acquisition costs.

R&D Results

• Development of body-based modelsGALAXEA's EFM-1 (Embodied Foundation Model-1) is a dual-system model architecture of embodied intelligence, which integrates the tens of billions of parameter visual language model (VLM) of "slow thinking" and the billions of parameter action model (VLA) of "fast execution" to realize closed-loop decision-making from perception and understanding to precise control. VLM (Visual Language Model), which is "slow to think", and VLA (Visual Action Large Model), which is "fast to execute", to realize closed-loop decision-making from perception and understanding to precise control. Among them, the VLA model is trained based on the world's largest single ontology dataset of GALAXEA, focusing on breaking through the core bottleneck of embodied intelligence in action and object generalization.
• Developer Ecology BuildingSince the end of 2024, StarHub's wheeled dual-arm robot ontology has been delivered to more than 100 top developer customers at home and abroad, and is becoming the ontology platform of choice for basic body model training. Its isomorphic ontology shipments and the number of developers have rapidly risen to the first in the industry, accelerating the construction of the "ontology-data-model-application" developer application ecological closed loop.

market recognition

• FinancingSince its inception, GALAXEA has continued to receive support from top-tier strategic investors, national industry funds, and first-tier financial investment institutions. As of July 2025, the company's Pre-A and A rounds totaled nearly RMB 1.5 billion, with the valuation of the latest rounds increasing by more than 3 times compared to the beginning of the year. Among them, on July 9, 2025, GALAXEA completed the A4 and A5 rounds of strategic financing one after another, with the combined financing amount of the two rounds exceeding USD 100 million.
• industry assessmentGALAXEA's technological innovation and product development capabilities in the field of embodied intelligence have been widely recognized by the market and the industry. The world's top developers, including Stanford University's Fei-Fei Li team and Physical Intelligence, have relied on the GALAXEA platform to accelerate the validation and realization of embodied intelligence technology.