Galaxy pitches its robots as ‘Soul AI’ three weeks before its own robot is due

Galaxy Corporation, the Korean entertainment company behind Galaxy Robot Park, is presenting its robots as “Soul AI”: AI and robots that it says combine human values and empathy with intelligence and physical capability. The label was the centre of Robotics & Automation News’ October 8, 2026 account of Galaxy’s New York appearances on the UN International Day of Peace, September 21, which we covered at the time for its listing plans.

The next fixed date is October 31. Chief executive Choi Yong-ho has said Galaxy will unveil a robot that day for which it handled “everything from hardware to software”, the first item on the calendar he set out in New York.

What does “Soul AI” mean?

As used so far, it is a positioning label rather than a technical description. In New York, the Schofield Stein robot asked to be called a “Soul AI” rather than a physical AI and said, according to Hoodline: “I did not come to replace humans. I came to live alongside them.” Choi predicted that robots could be part of everyday life by 2035 and said the key question is what kind of relationship people build with them.

Galaxy has not published what software sits behind the label. The closest technical claim is Soulware, the robot operating system Choi described in August as a single control layer for hardware from several makers, which we examined in our Soulware explainer; no release date has been given for it. The park’s shows run on Unitree hardware. For readers, the useful distinction is between choreography and companionship. Galaxy has shown the first at scale in Seoul and New York. “Soul AI” is a claim about the second, which has not yet been demonstrated.

What has Galaxy put numbers on?

Few things. In an interview published by Green Economy on October 2, Choi said Galaxy’s physical AI and robot business already generates revenue in the tens of billions of won, without a figure or a breakdown, and repeated his target for physical-AI revenue to overtake the artist-management business within two years. The same report noted that Galaxy said in April that 75–80% of its revenue depended on G-Dragon. Those are company statements; the robot revenue claim cannot be checked until Galaxy files accounts that separate it.

The October 31 robot is the first item on Choi’s list that can be checked by looking at it. The questions are whether it is shown working rather than as a render, what it does that the park’s Unitree units do not, and whether Galaxy says who manufactures it. The listing plan has its own checkpoint: Choi has said the US IPO banks will be named by the end of 2026 or in the first quarter of 2027.

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