Galbot G1

The Galbot G1 is a real product made and sold by the Chinese robotics company Galbot. Its upper body has human-like arms and hands, but instead of legs, its lower body runs on wheels. When people hear "humanoid robot," they often picture something walking on two legs, but the G1 is closer to a robot that rolls around like a shopping cart while using its arms to pick up and move objects.

Because of this design, the G1 physically cannot fall over from losing balance, since it never needs to balance on two legs in the first place. This detail actually mattered in a real news story: when a robot was reported to have fallen and gotten back up while playing tennis at a competition, the fact that the G1 has no legs at all was used as evidence that the robot in question wasn't the G1.

In short, remembering that the G1 is not a walking robot but a wheeled robot that moves around and works with its hands can help you avoid confusion the next time Galbot comes up in the news.

When a robot playing tennis at the opening ceremony of the World Humanoid Robot Games in August 2026 became a talking point, some people mistakenly assumed it was Galbot's commercial product, the G1. In fact, the robot that competed was ET1, a new bipedal model unveiled just three days earlier. The G1, by contrast, is a wheeled two-armed robot with no legs at all, making a full-body balancing motion like tennis physically impossible for it. This is exactly why it matters to distinguish between the company name Galbot and its individual robot models.