Galbot published a full commercial price list for its ET1 biped, and the entry ticket is RMB 79,000. The top configuration is RMB 179,000. In between sits a Pro version at RMB 139,000. Three tiers, one 1.25 metre robot, 32 kilograms with the battery, and a clear statement that the humanoid is now a catalogue item rather than a negotiation.
The tiering is not hardware padding. The standard unit carries 26 degrees of freedom and does choreographed dance plus basic natural language interaction, which is enough for a shopping mall atrium or a trade stand. Pro adds dynamic reasoning and observational imitation learning, the feature Galbot markets as learning a move after watching it once. Flagship moves the money into compute and developer interfaces, up to 100 TOPS, for integrators who intend to build on it.
What the price list does not include
The dexterous hand is optional, and only on Pro and Flagship. Fitting it adds 12 degrees of freedom and a further line to the invoice, so RMB 179,000 does not buy a complete capability set. The compute stack is layered the same way: Rockchip RK3588 and RDK X5 control boards throughout, an Nvidia Orin Nano at 40 TOPS in Pro, and an NX module at 100 TOPS in Flagship, all driving a 100 million parameter motion model.
Galbot is not shy about the reference point. Agility Robotics’ AI innovation lead Chris Paxton watched the dance demonstration and posted a single line: Galbot is a good dancer. That is warmer than the verdict from TSMC’s C.C. Wei, who has publicly dismissed performance robots as a good looking gimmick.
Entertainment is where the invoices clear
Counterpoint’s count for the first half of 2026 puts entertainment and performance at 33.6 per cent of global humanoid deployment projects, ahead of research and service guidance. The buyers are not replacing staff. They are buying a traffic generator, because a robot on a stage produces short video and short video produces footfall.
That is a commercial loop, and it funds the harder work. Galbot’s own wheeled dual-arm G1 is already running regular production shifts inside CATL plants on orders worth several hundred million yuan, so the entertainment line is not a retreat from industry, it is the product that pays for it. The company was founded in May 2023 by Wang He of Peking University, has raised more than RMB 7 billion, and carries a valuation above RMB 20 billion, which sets the commercial bar very high for a dance partner.
The real test is not the sticker price. It is whether a mall operator who pays RMB 79,000 can keep generating new material without paying an engineer every time the routine gets stale. The hand is optional. The content pipeline is not.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-10/ART-898890-8110-30705645.html.