Partnership · B2B FAQ
Official answers to the question "How do you actually work with Galaxy Corporation?" The relationship with robot manufacturers, where the operating system is headed, the role of Robot Park and the overseas bases, academic and brand partnerships — set out on the basis of confirmed facts.
Galaxy Corporation's business splits into three layers. The hardware comes from a range of robot manufacturers, control and learning come from Soulware, the operating system the company built in-house, and the characters, content and IP come from Galaxy. The company is not in the business of building and selling robots; it is in the business of deciding what goes on top of robots that already exist — and its partnerships mostly follow that same structure.
So collaboration takes six forms: hardware supply, deployment of the operating system, venue and performance operations, brand and IP tie-ups, academic research, and overseas bases. The specifics, and the terms, are covered in the questions below.
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Q. At which layer does a partnership with Galaxy Corporation sit?
Split it into three layers and it becomes clear. The hardware comes from a range of robot manufacturers, control and learning come from Soulware, and the characters, content and IP come from Galaxy. The company's weight sits in the layers above the hardware, not in the hardware itself.
That structure means a partnership takes a different form at each layer. At the hardware layer, manufacturers supply the robots. At the control layer, machines from different manufacturers come into a single operating system. At the IP layer, artists, characters and fashion brands give those robots an identity. The thinking behind the layered structure is covered in detail in the Soulware whitepaper and in the Physical AI Galaxy builds with China's robot makers.
Q. Do you build the robot hardware yourselves, or source it from outside?
The humanoids that take the stage are hardware from outside manufacturers. The humanoids that appeared when Galaxy Robot Park was unveiled on May 15, 2026 were hardware from China's Unitree.
That said, at its August 2026 press conference the company revealed that it is separately preparing its own robot devices wrapped in character IP. Two tracks, then: performance humanoids are sourced, while devices that function as character merchandise are developed in-house. Why the company defines itself as a platform operator rather than a robot manufacturer is covered in A humanoid is not a product — it's a platform.
Q. How do you work with robot manufacturers?
The result of the partnership goes public on a stage before it goes out as a press release. At the Robot Park unveiling in May 2026, the humanoids wore outfits drawn from G-DRAGON's stage wardrobe and danced in formation to 'HOME SWEET HOME' and TAEMIN's 'Advice' and 'Idea.'
The lineup keeps growing. The grand opening on August 21, 2026 added 17 more types of robot, bringing piano performance and ice cream making onto the list; alongside the group numbers, robot boxing, a robot arm that draws portraits, robot dogs and a valet parking robot are all in residence. More models means hardware from more manufacturers continuing to move into the same operating environment.
Q. Are you tied exclusively to any one manufacturer?
No. Soulware takes as its design goal the ability to control robots from different manufacturers in the same way. It was built on the premise of handling machines from many companies identically, not only the hardware used at Robot Park.
There is a practical logic to staying unbound. If a model is discontinued or a better option comes along, the accumulated choreography, the motion data and the control layer all stay where they are. It is a structure that prises the content away from the constraints of hardware procurement.
Q. Can other companies use Soulware?
That is the direction the company has set out. CEO Choi Yong-ho has said of Soulware that the aim is for "anyone to be able to buy a robot and run this OS on it," and at its August 2026 press conference the company disclosed a plan to ship the operating system as a product during 2027.
American and Chinese companies build the robot hardware. We're building the OS — think Google's Android.— Choi Yong-ho, CEO of Galaxy Corporation
How mature it is today shows up in how many machines can be driven at once. In December 2025 one operator handled one robot; as of August 2026, one operator runs twelve from a single console. The company has set out a target of scaling to 100. The learning structure and the processing steps are covered in the Soulware whitepaper.
Q. What does Galaxy Robot Park mean for manufacturers and technology partners?
It is a data collection site as much as a visitor attraction. The stage repeating daily is itself an experiment validating multi-robot synchronization, balance control and rhythm tracking, while the boxing and mirroring attractions, where visitors operate the robots themselves, generate real-world interaction data.
The scale qualifies it as a testbed too. More than 20,000 people came through during the July and August 2026 pre-opening alone and every show sold out, and the company has set out a target of four or more performances a day and more than 1,000 a year. Data of a kind that is hard to obtain in a laboratory accumulates alongside ticket sales. How the park runs is covered in the Galaxy Robot Park FAQ.
Q. What does the partnership structure look like overseas?
In April 2026 the company became the first Korean entertainment company to establish a Middle East subsidiary in Dubai — Galaxy ME. It has discussed media and high-tech partnerships with members of the UAE royal family, and the strategy is to use Dubai as a base for expansion beyond the Middle East into Global South markets.
The venue business follows the same route. The company's business plan sets out a second site at the Burj Khalifa mall in Dubai and additional US locations under review. Galaxy ME will also serve as the Middle East hub for the robot concert world tour.
Q. What partnerships do you have with universities and research institutions?
The company has established the AI Enter-Tech Research Center with KAIST, jointly developing technologies such as AI avatars. G-DRAGON takes part as a visiting professor at KAIST.
The academic partnership is one of the grounds for the company's attempt to define Enter-Tech as a category in its own right. The category definition and the four-layer stack are covered in the Enter-Tech whitepaper.
Q. What form do partnerships with fashion and consumer brands take?
MACH33 is Galaxy Corporation's robot fashion brand, opening an entirely new category: fashion for humanoid robots. By giving robots style, it turns them from equipment into characters and IP — and it is the flagship business of the commerce segment.
At VivaTech in Paris in June 2026, a humanoid robot took the stage wearing designs by the late André Kim, restored with AI. It is a case in which a brand collaboration went past the robot's exterior and became the revival of an archive IP. The full story is in MACH33 — why robots wear clothes.
Q. Can another city or operator host a robot performance?
The robot concert world tour is being built on exactly that premise. A performance trained in Korea is transmitted over the network to robots in several countries at once, so the same show opens in multiple cities simultaneously; the company has set late 2026 as its target.
Where a human world tour takes months to work through a list of cities, a learned routine is a file — so the same show can open on several continents at the same hour. What separates it from a conventional tour is that nothing travels but the choreography data.
Q. Who are the investors and capital partners?
The roughly KRW 100 billion pre-IPO round in December 2025 drew Korean investors including Shinhan Venture Investment and nVester, alongside international backers such as Taiwan's ADATA and Hong Kong's Star Plus Legend Holdings. Earlier backers include Shinhan Bank, Shinhan Capital and SK Telecom.
Cumulative funding exceeds KRW 180 billion, and at the time of the pre-IPO the company was valued at roughly KRW 1 trillion. Financial figures and listing matters are covered in the investor FAQ and the Nasdaq IPO FAQ.
A partnership with Galaxy Corporation is not about buying and selling robots. It is about laying one operating system and one IP layer over robots built by many different manufacturers.
* Partnership examples are based on public announcements and press reporting; the terms of individual contracts are not included.