Deployment story
Galbot S1 enters regular operation on CATL battery lines
CATL confirms the heavy-duty wheeled humanoid is handling materials and picking in module and battery-pack manufacturing.
On June 24, 2026, CATL said Galbot S1 had been deployed on its intelligent production lines for extended autonomous operation in battery-module and pack manufacturing. The robot performs material-handling and picking work in repetitive, physically demanding processes.
CATL describes a dual-arm payload of 50 kg, vision-only centimeter-level positioning, 360-degree obstacle avoidance and up to eight hours of continuous operation. Those figures are product and application claims from the customer announcement; the source does not provide measured throughput, task-success rate, fleet size or downtime.
This is an important missing manufacturing case because the customer, rather than only the robot supplier, explicitly calls the S1 a robot in regular operation. CATL does not identify the plant city in the release, so the story is included without placing a potentially misleading marker on the deployment map.