ASUS Gallop humanoid learns to pack motherboard accessories

ASUS is testing its Gallop humanoid at a group electronics manufacturing services factory, where the robot is learning to pack motherboard accessories at a workstation designed for human workers, according to Interesting Engineering. The assignment covers 15 different accessories, many of them small, thin and enclosed in transparent plastic bags. It is a specific manipulation task: handling varied shapes and flexible packaging rather than repeatedly picking an identical rigid part.

ASUS is targeting a 99.5 percent task success rate within 20 seconds for the factory test, the outlet reports. Those figures are development targets, not reported operating results. Gallop learns through worker demonstrations, simulation and practice with the actual parts. In a public post, ASUS executive S.Y. Hsu described the approach as watching the company’s workers and then practicing on the same accessories. The combination puts the training task and the intended factory assignment on the same materials.

ASUS says it selected the workstation to test whether Gallop could take responsibility for most of the operation without a worker remaining alongside it throughout. That makes sustained task execution, rather than an isolated successful pick, the practical test of the project. The company plans customer pilot programs for 2027 and is targeting commercial availability in the second half of 2028.

Source: Interesting Engineering