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Wheeled-base humanoids

A humanoid upper body on a wheeled or tracked chassis — the same arms, torso and head as a walking humanoid, minus the balancing act.

  • wheeled humanoid
  • mobile humanoid

What it is

A wheeled-base humanoid puts a torso, two arms and a head on a platform that rolls instead of walks. Nothing has to balance, so it can stand still with the power off, carry heavier arms and bigger batteries, and run a full shift. Most have a lifting column or folding "legs" so the torso can reach from floor to high shelf. The trade is terrain: no stairs, no kerbs, no rough ground. On a flat factory floor that rarely matters, which is why early commercial deployments are here.

Also called a wheeled humanoid or mobile humanoid. In this taxonomy it sits under Humanoid beside bipedal and fixed-base humanoids; the test is the humanoid torso, arms and head on a wheeled or tracked base instead of legs.

What they are used for

  • Factory and warehouse tasks — bimanual picking, kitting and tote handling on flat floors, the target of the AGIBOT G1.
  • Retail and pharmacy picking — fetching items from shelves at a range of heights, where the Galbot G1 is deployed.
  • Data collection for physical AI — teleoperated demonstrations and policy testing, where a base that runs for hours matters more than walking (Astribot S1).
  • Home and service research — tidying, folding and kitchen tasks on a platform that cannot fall.

What to compare

Attribute Why it matters In this catalogue
payload Per arm and combined; wheeled bases carry more than legged ones 3 kg (AGIBOT G1) – 10 kg (Galbot G1)
height Many adjust; check the lowest and highest reach, not just standing height 1730 mm (Galbot G1) – 1800 mm (AGIBOT G1)
battery_runtime Hours rather than minutes, because nothing is spent on balance 240 min (AGIBOT G1) – 480 min (Galbot G1)
mass Heavy; moving it between sites needs a ramp and a van 92.5 kg (Galbot G1) – 150 kg (AGIBOT G1)
drive_config Differential, omnidirectional or tracked decides turning space and floor type omnidirectional (2)
dof_total Arms, waist and head; the base adds few 20 (AGIBOT G1) – 23 (Astribot S1)
sdk Research and developer editions expose arm and base control not yet in the catalogue

In the catalogue

Professional / industrial: AGIBOT G1 · Astribot S1 · Galbot G1

Edge cases

  • One arm on a wheeled base: a mobile manipulator.
  • Two arms on a base with no head or human-proportioned torso: a mobile manipulator.
  • Folding "legs" on wheels (Galbot G1): still wheeled-base; the wheels do the moving.
  • A humanoid torso sold without its base: fixed-base humanoid; the base is linked by compatible_with.

Related

Humanoid · Bipedal humanoid · Fixed-base humanoid · Mobile manipulator · Wheeled robot


Rule of membership

Humanoid torso, two arms AND a head in human proportion, mounted on a wheeled or tracked base instead of legs. A bimanual torso with a sensor mast but no head, or without human proportions, is a mobile manipulator (rb-5).

Category rb-2-2 in the whatrobot taxonomy.