Galaxy General shows ET1 and one model driving three robot bodies

Galaxy General unveiled the Galbot ET1 on 19 August 2026, the opening day of the World Robot Conference in Beijing, together with a new build of its embodied model AstraBrain.

The architectural claim is the interesting one. AstraBrain is described as a World-Action Model, and the company says a single set of weights drives machines of different shapes — the bipedal ET1, the wheeled dual-arm G1, and the S1, a 50-kilogram-payload dual-arm unit the company says runs around the clock on CATL production lines. Cross-embodiment is the thing every robotics foundation model claims to be aiming at, because a policy that has to be retrained per chassis never amortises.

Galaxy General also put numbers on deployment rather than capability: roughly 100 instant-retail pharmacies across dozens of Chinese cities, and more than 170 of its retail units in over 40 cities.

Two limits belong on this. “World’s first self-learning humanoid” is the company’s framing of ET1, and a trade-show unveiling is not a shipped product — the G1 and S1 are the machines with deployment figures attached, and ET1 is not among them. The account here comes from conference coverage, not from an independent evaluation of the model.