ASUS Gallop humanoid robot: packing motherboard accessories at an ASUS group factory, with customer pilots planned for 2027
ASUS introduced Gallop, its first humanoid robot, in a CNBC interview with co-CEO S.Y. Hsu and a pressroom post by Dr. Albert Chang on Nov. 13, 2026 (Taiwan time). ASUS said Gallop's first job is at an ASUS group electronics manufacturing (EMS) plant, packing motherboard accessories at a station with 15 small parts, many in thin clear bags, that takes about 20 seconds per board. ASUS said its target is 99.5% success within 20 seconds, the same bar it holds a person to.
Source: ASUS Pressroom: Factory-Proven Physical AI: Why ASUS Is Building a Humanoid Robot (Nov. 13, 2026)
ASUS said Gallop is a fixed-base two-arm unit on one NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor. It said it designs the body and a touch-sensing hand in-house and will fit that hand, then wheels, before Computex 2027. ASUS's written plan is 2027 customer pilots and 2H 2028 market availability. CNBC's page says Hsu scheduled a 2H 2027 partner release and a 2028 market debut. ASUS did not disclose a price.
Servospace take: ASUS is its own first customer, and the bar it published is the number to watch
Servospace analysis: Most humanoid makers have to find a factory willing to host a pilot. ASUS says it has its own electronics manufacturing plants, so it can test Gallop on real parts under its own quality rules before selling it. That lowers the cost of getting to a first paying deployment, but it also means early results come from a friendly site.
The useful part of the announcement is that ASUS put a number on the job. A 20-second cycle works out to about 180 boards an hour at one station, by our arithmetic, if every cycle hits that time, and ASUS says the robot has to hit 99.5% success at that pace to match a person. ASUS has not said how close Gallop is today, what it costs, or how many units it plans to build. Those three numbers will decide whether the 2027 pilots turn into revenue. ASUS said the program started in early 2026.
Foxconn has said it already runs more than 10 humanoids for internal use at Texas electronics sites. ASUS has published a cycle time and a success bar, not a robot count.
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Sources
- ASUS Pressroom: Factory-Proven Physical AI: Why ASUS Is Building a Humanoid Robot (Nov. 13, 2026)
- CNBC: ASUS announces first humanoid robot: Gallop (interview with co-CEO S.Y. Hsu, Nov. 13, 2026)
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