Asus shows Gallop, its first humanoid robot, learning to pack motherboard boxes

Asus has shown Gallop, its first humanoid robot, which is built for production work in electronics factories. The robot is being tested at a factory of the Asus group, where it is learning to pack motherboard boxes with 15 different parts, many of them small items in thin plastic bags.

Each motherboard takes about 20 seconds, and Asus has set a goal of 99.5% accuracy within the time limits. Gallop is a humanoid torso with two arms on a fixed base, and it runs on a single Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor computer inside the robot. Its software has four layers, for planning, supervision, skills and control of the arms, and the AI models in them can be replaced without redesigning the robot.

The robot learns by watching experienced workers, who agreed to wear small head cameras, then from simulated variations of their recorded movements, and from an operator who guides it with a VR headset and gloves. Asus designs the body and the arms with touch-sensitive hands itself and buys the motors and other standard parts.

Over the next year Asus plans to give Gallop its own multi-fingered hand with touch sensing, put it on a wheeled base and show it to possible customers at Computex 2027. Pilots with customers are planned for 2027 and sales for the second half of 2028, first in electronics manufacturing and later possibly in hospitals and other service settings.