CATL Leads Galaxy Universal's New 1.1 Billion Yuan Funding Round | BlueRun Ventures Portfolio

In June 2025, Galaxy Universal officially completed a new funding round of 1.1 billion yuan led by CATL and Puquan Capital, bringing its total funding to over 2.4 billion yuan in just two years. This round brought together top-tier investors including CATL's listed company strategic investment arm, Puquan Capital, China Development Bank's Guokai Technology Innovation, Beijing Robotics Industry Fund, and GGV Capital.

Against the backdrop of embodied intelligence being elevated to a national strategy, the addition of national-level investment platforms, Beijing municipal investment platforms, and internationally renowned institutional investors underscores Galaxy Universal's leading technical capabilities in embodied large-model robotics, its strategic positioning in the capital's core industries, and the market's strong recognition of its global growth potential.

The strategic investment from CATL in this round also opens up further synergies for the application and commercialization of Galaxy Universal's embodied intelligence large models.

BlueRun Ventures was the lead investor in Galaxy Universal's seed round and has made multiple follow-on investments since.

Since its founding, Galaxy Universal has pioneered a technical paradigm of pre-training on simulated synthetic action datasets and post-training on real-world data, driving rapid global iteration of embodied large-model technology. Its breakthrough achievements include:

Globally leading embodied foundation model: In January 2025, the company launched GraspVLA, the world's first end-to-end embodied large model pre-trained on billion-scale simulated synthetic action data. This model achieved a breakthrough as the world's first to enable zero-shot generalization through pre-training alone.

Galaxy Universal's end-to-end embodied grasping foundation model GraspVLA

New breakthrough in retail commercialization models: The company released GroceryVLA, the world's first end-to-end model designed for retail commercialization. This model addresses two critical challenges in complex retail environments:

Comprehensive intelligent grasping: In shelf scenarios with diverse and densely stacked products, it can precisely grasp all categories — soft bags, hard boxes, bottles, glass containers, and plastic packaging — without individual parameter tuning for each product type.

High-efficiency scene adaptation: The model features strong autonomous decision-making capabilities (such as dynamically selecting optimal manipulation targets) and excellent anti-interference abilities (handling unexpected product displacement or toppling). Equally important, deployment is extremely convenient with zero scene pre-collection requirements, dramatically reducing setup time.

At the BAAI 2025 conference, Galaxy Universal demonstrated and live-streamed GroceryVLA on stage.

Large-scale navigation model deployment: Beyond manipulation models, the company also launched TrackVLA, a production-grade end-to-end navigation large model with capabilities spanning:

• Pure visual environment perception and natural language instruction understanding
• Zero-shot generalization in complex scenes
• High-dynamic target tracking: precisely tracking human or animal targets in dense crowds, supporting dynamic target switching, and rapidly reacquiring lost targets through spatial intelligence and large-model reasoning
• High environmental robustness: maintaining stable and reliable tracking performance in unmapped new environments such as unfamiliar malls, under lighting changes, or with obstacle interference

Galaxy Universal's end-to-end navigation large model TrackVLA

In terms of scaled commercial deployment, Galaxy Universal has made significant progress in smart retail, industrial applications, and healthcare scenarios.

In March this year, Galaxy Universal unveiled the world's first humanoid robot smart retail solution, deploying its wheeled dual-arm robot Galbot to perform fully automated end-to-end operations — inventory counting, restocking, picking, packing, and delivery — across 5,000 product SKUs, 6,000 shelf slots, and over 10,000 items in a 24/7 unmanned store of just 50 square meters. Deployment at a new store location takes only one day. Nearly ten stores in Beijing have already been deployed and are operating regularly, with the potential to reach hundreds of stores nationwide within the year.

Galaxy Universal's Galbot G1 working autonomously in a smart pharmacy

Meanwhile, Galaxy Universal continues to deepen its partnerships in the automotive industry. On the 17th of this month, the company announced a joint venture with Boyuan Capital, the investment arm of global industrial giant Bosch Group, and signed a tripartite strategic memorandum with Bosch China and Boyuan Capital. The collaboration will focus on industrial manufacturing scenarios, jointly advancing the commercial exploration and global market deployment of embodied intelligent robots. This marks a critical step for Galaxy Universal in translating cutting-edge technology into real productive capacity, particularly in demanding industrial domains.

Bosch China, Boyuan Capital, and Galaxy Universal signing the strategic cooperation agreement

He Wang, Assistant Professor at Peking University, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Galaxy Universal, and BAAI Scholar

At the BAAI 2025 conference, Dr. He Wang, Assistant Professor at Peking University, Founder and CTO of Galaxy Universal, and BAAI Scholar, emphasized: "The core goal of embodied intelligence right now is to resolutely achieve industrial breakthroughs." As a global leader in embodied large-model research and a pioneer in general-purpose robotics commercialization, Galaxy Universal is accelerating the continuous transformation of embodied large-model robotics technology into productive force.

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