ASUS Unveils Its First Humanoid Robot Gallop; AgiBot-Backed Qingtianzu Raises Hundreds of Millions of Yuan

Nvdium Tech | November 13, 2026

ASUS unveils Gallop, its first humanoid robot

ASUS has unveiled Gallop, its first humanoid robot, built by the humanoid robotics unit of the Physical AI Solutions Business Group it set up this year. Co-CEO S.Y. Hsu introduced the robot on CNBC. Gallop is being tested at an ASUS group EMS factory, where it packs motherboard accessories: each station handles 15 small parts, many of them in thin, clear bags, at about 20 seconds per board. ASUS's target is a 99.5% success rate within 20 seconds, the same standard it holds human workers to.

Gallop runs on NVIDIA's Jetson Thor platform and, for now, works from a fixed base with two arms, focused on pick-and-place at a workstation. ASUS doesn't train its own large model and starts from open models instead. Skilled workers wear head cameras to record their work, simulation generates variations, and an operator in a VR headset and gloves guides the robot on the real parts. The system has four layers: a planner that understands the job and breaks it into steps, a second supervising model that checks each step and replans when something goes wrong, a skills layer, and a control layer. The interfaces between layers are fixed, so a better model can be swapped in without rebuilding the robot. ASUS designs the body and the hand in-house.

The program started in early 2026. Over the next year ASUS plans to add its own tactile dexterous hand, put Gallop on wheels and show it to customers at Computex 2027, with customer pilots in 2027 and market availability in the second half of 2028. Electronics manufacturing comes first, followed by hospitals and service sites.

Qingtianzu closes a strategic round worth hundreds of millions of yuan

Qingtianzu, a robot rental platform whose largest shareholder is AgiBot, has closed a strategic round worth several hundred million yuan, with Heda Investment, Mango-affiliated Houwei Capital and Zhonglian Jisong participating. The money will go into application development, its Worken training program, ecosystem building and an upgrade of its nationwide fulfillment network.

Founded in December 2025, Qingtianzu also said it is moving from "robot rental" to "robot productivity services," extending beyond matching equipment supply and demand to organizing tasks, scheduling robot fleets and running ongoing operations. Heda will support regional expansion and the Worken program, Houwei Capital will tie Mango's entertainment IP to robot performances and in-person experiences, and Zhonglian Jisong will open last-mile delivery and campus service scenarios to develop fleet operations. Besides AgiBot, the platform now carries close to 20 robot brands, including Gaoqing, XBOT, Shouxing, Youshijie and EngineAI, and runs 20 operations centers across China.

Daxiao Robotics releases ACE-CaP-0

Daxiao Robotics released ACE-CaP-0, an embodied AI research result in which a general-purpose model develops and refines reusable manipulation skills on its own, stored as code policies, using on-demand demonstrations, on-demand simulation and feedback from the real robot. Across eight fine manipulation tasks, including plugging in a charger, unscrewing a bottle cap and nesting cups, the team ran 240 independent real-robot trials and succeeded 221 times, an overall success rate of 92.1%. After code-policy optimization, some tasks take under a minute per run.

Funding

• QuikTech (Qingkui Zhizao) raised a Series A of about 100 million yuan from Cowin Capital, FRD and Jinhui Big Data. The company builds self-driving labs for scientific research, combining robotics and AI, and will use the money for core R&D, key industry expansion and cloud lab construction.