ASUS’s first humanoid robot has one job: packing its own motherboard boxes
ASUS has built its first humanoid robot, one made to pack accessories into its own motherboard boxes on a single factory line. Commercial sales are still two years off.
ASUS has built its first humanoid robot, and for now it has exactly one job. Called Gallop, the robot packs accessories into motherboard boxes on one line inside an ASUS group EMS factory.
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EMS factoryAn electronics manufacturing services factory assembles and packages hardware under contract, including for the company that owns it. ASUS runs its own plants like this rather than outsourcing the work.At that station, Gallop handles 15 small parts per board, several of them thin and sealed in clear plastic bags. ASUS has set a target of 99.5 percent success within 20 seconds per board, the same standard the company holds a human worker to.
ASUS Co-CEO S.Y. Hsu described the project in a televised interview on November 13, 2026, the same day the company set out the details in its own newsroom post. The 99.5 percent figure is a target, not a result ASUS has measured.
Gallop runs on a single Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor computer, with a two-armed body and an in-house dexterous hand that carries tactile sensing and a wrist camera. Training comes from head-camera video of ASUS’s own line workers, from simulated variations of the same motions, and from employees guiding the robot through identical parts in virtual reality with haptic gloves.
ASUS has said Gallop is not meant to replace the workers on that line. The company is aiming it at stations that are hardest to keep staffed, work it describes as repetitive and physically demanding enough to wear people down over a shift.
Gallop does not reach consumers, and ASUS has not said it ever will for individual buyers. The company plans customer pilots with other manufacturers in 2027, a wheeled version shown at Computex in Taipei the same year, and commercial availability in the second half of 2028. No price has been disclosed.
Still, one robot running one station inside the company’s own factory is a different claim from a machine that holds up across a full shift unsupervised, or one that handles a part it has never watched on camera.
Other manufacturers get their own evidence only once the 2027 pilots ASUS has promised actually begin.
