GAC GoMate

GoMate was presented in December 2024 as the third generation of the embodied-AI robot programme run by GAC Group, the state-owned Guangzhou carmaker behind the Trumpchi and Aion brands. Its defining feature is a variable wheel-leg chassis: the machine stands about 1.75 m tall on two wheeled legs when it needs the reach and the eye level of a person, and folds down to roughly 1.40 m on four wheels when it is simply covering ground. GAC gives 38 degrees of freedom for the whole body and says the four-wheel posture cuts energy consumption by more than 80 percent on flat surfaces compared with comparable robots. Runtime is quoted at over six hours on the group's own all-solid-state battery cells - the same battery programme GAC develops for its cars, which is the clearest example of what an automaker brings to a robot project. The deployment plan is unusual, and GAC has been candid about it. Zhang Aimin, who leads the humanoid programme, said plainly that car manufacturing is not the priority at this stage; the first application is security patrol, with the robot carrying interchangeable tools such as shields and batons, backed by sensor fusion and behaviour analysis that flags anomalies during a round. Field testing was run on GAC's own campuses with Guangzhou security operators, and elderly care and after-sales service at dealerships are named as the next markets. That ordering matters: most humanoid makers claim the factory floor first because it is the easiest business case to explain, and GoMate's maker - who owns factories - went the other way. The published timeline puts pilot deployments in 2025, small-batch production in 2026 and scaled manufacturing after that, with GAC's self-developed actuators (miniature servo units under 30 mm delivering 20 A of drive current) sold as components in their own right. No price has ever been announced, and no payload, reach or arm-force figures have been published. All of the numbers above come from GAC's launch presentation and executive interviews reported by the trade press, not from a datasheet - the company maintains no product page for GoMate and its own newsroom does not cover the robot. This profile is therefore written from announcement material and will be rewritten when a catalogue card appears.

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