ASUS Gallop

ASUS Gallop is the first humanoid robot from ASUS, built by the Humanoid Robotics unit of its Physical AI Solutions Business Group to do real factory work. Its first job is at an ASUS group electronics plant, packing the small accessories that go into a motherboard box, many of them sealed in thin, clear bags, which is exactly the kind of work a simple gripper cannot handle. Today Gallop works from a fixed base with two humanlike arms, five-fingered hands and a helmet-like head, so it can use the same stations, tools and trays as people. ASUS designs the robot body in-house and is building its own dexterous hand with a sense of touch, while motors and other standard parts come from established partners. Gallop learns mostly by watching skilled workers: experienced staff wear a small head camera, simulation adds variations, and an operator in a VR headset and gloves guides the robot through the task before it practises on the real line. Inside, a planner breaks each job into steps, a supervisor AI checks every step and re-plans when something goes wrong, a skills layer handles reaching, grasping and placing, and a control layer moves the arms and hands precisely and stops instantly if anything is wrong. It all runs on a single NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor computer inside the robot, and newer AI models can be swapped in without rebuilding it. ASUS designed Gallop for the repetitive, physically demanding stations that are hardest to staff.