R1 Lite

The Galaxea R1 Lite is an entry-level wheeled dual-arm manipulation robot from Galaxea AI (Suzhou, China), designed as a data collection and manipulation research platform. It features dual Galaxea A1X robotic arms, a 360° omnidirectional wheeled base, 23 degrees of freedom total, and NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB compute. Arm reach is 70 cm with a 3 kg per-arm rated payload. Starting price approximately $27,000 USD (199,000 RMB).

Primary use case: Embodied AI research, data collection, manipulation tasks, teleoperation

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