Humanoid robot maker Galbot raises $300 million and reaches $3 billion valuation - Robotics & Automation News

The most recent headlines show a surge of high‑profile deployments and funding in the humanoid‑robot sector. In late December 2025, STMicroelectronics announced a partnership with Italy’s Oversonic Robotics to introduce the company’s custom RoBee cognitive humanoid robots across its global semiconductor plants, marking the first operational integration of such robots in semiconductor manufacturing. At roughly the same time, Chinese battery giant CATL reported the world‑first large‑scale use of its “Xiaomo” humanoid robots on the production line of its Luoyang battery factory, where the bots are said to handle complex tasks such as battery connector insertion with three‑times the workload of a human worker. Meanwhile, U.S. startup Galbot secured a $300 million financing round that lifted its valuation to $3 billion, enabling the company to expand deployments of its humanoid platforms in industrial, logistics and healthcare settings. These developments underscore a rapid shift from experimental prototypes to commercial, mission‑critical applications of humanoid robots in manufacturing, energy storage, and service sectors.

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