ROBOTERA
ROBOTERA (星动纪元, also written Robot Era) is a Beijing embodied-AI company incubated by Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. It builds the full-size biped L7, the wheeled humanoid Q5, the half-body M7, its own ERA-42 VLA model, and the XHAND direct-drive dexterous hands, which also sell on their own. The company says its robots work in more than ten logistics centres with China Post and SF Group. It has raised several rounds since 2024, and its March 2026 round put its valuation past RMB 10 billion.
4 humanoid models · 3 deployments on file · researched 2026-11-08
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Founded
- 2023
- Ownership
- Private
- Website
- robotera.com
- Focus
- logistics, industrial, research, retail, education, healthcare
- Leadership
- Chen Jianyu (陈建宇) Founder; Tsinghua University assistant professor (IIIS) ↗
- Last round
- new round led by SF Group (stated as 'over USD 200 million') · 2026-05 · $200M
- Investors
- Lenovo, Century Golden Resources, Alibaba Group, Crystal Stream Capital (Clearvue Partners), Vision Capital (Yuanjing Capital), CDH Venture and Growth Capital, Haier Capital, Geely Capital, BAIC Capital, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund, Gaocheng Capital, Singtel Innov8, Woori Venture Partners, CICC Porsche Fund, China Fortune-Tech Capital, Fenghe Capital, Wuxi Capital, GF QIANHE, Horizon Investment, Tsinghua Holding Tiancheng Asset Management, SF Group, HSG, IDG Capital, Hillhouse Investment, CICC Capital, Jingming Capital, SparkEdge Capital, Luxin Venture Capital Group, Unite Pioneers Capital, Longqi Investment, KENGIC, Dongfeng Asset Investment, ICBC Capital
- Production
- 200 shipped by 2025-07 · China Daily (29 Jul 2025): '200 humanoid robots shipped in 2025' and 'over one hundred orders currently in progress'. In May 2026 the company said it 'initiated thousand-unit deliveries, with growth exceeding 300%' in Q2 2026, with no exact count. Separately, the standalone dexterous hand shipped 'over 1,000 units' in 2025 per the Mar 2026 release, or 'nearly 1,000' per the Zhongguancun notice. 'Over 95% of core components' are developed in-house. ↗
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Humanoids
Each model as the maker has shown it. Specs are maker-stated; a dash means no source states the figure.
| Model | Status | Announced | Height | Weight | DoF | Payload | Runtime | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L7 ↗Full-size biped. Weight 65 kg is without the dexterous hand. 55 DOF counts the XHAND 1 hands. Knee joint peak 400 N·m and 25 rad/s. Running speed 4 m/s (converted here to 14.4 km/h). Battery 60 V 15 Ah. Compute 80 TOPS (x86) + 275 TOPS (Orin). Holds the World Humanoid Robot Games high-jump title. | Commercial | 2025-07 | 171 cm | 65 kg | 55 | 20 kg | — | not published (site has a 'Buy now' purchase-inquiry form) |
| Q5 wheeled ↗Wheeled service humanoid, 582*519*1650 mm. Two 7-DOF arms reaching 1380 mm, with XHAND 1 Lite hands (11 DOF). Load runtime '> 4 hours'. Pitched for education, customer service, malls, hospitals and tourism. | Commercial | 2025-06 | 165 cm | 70 kg | 44 | 10 kg | — | not published |
| M7 other ↗Full-size half-body (upper-torso) humanoid. 792 mm tall, 43 DOF with hands (19 without), 1660 mm arm span, 2.1 m operating diameter, Meta Quest teleoperation. Shown sorting parcels in the May 2026 release. | Commercial | — | 79.2 cm | 65 kg | 43 | — | — | not published |
| STAR1 ↗Ran 3.6 m/s (about 13 km/h) on a Gobi Desert course in Yumen, Gansu, in Oct 2024, with joint torque raised from 150 to 400 N·m and peak joint speed 25 rad/s. It is not on the current product list, and its status was never stated by the company. | Prototype | 2024 | — | — | — | — | — | not published |
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Deployments
Named customers, what the robots do there, and how far it has gone.
| Customer | What | When | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF Express ↗ | Embodied-AI cross-border logistics inspection solution deployed at customs; single orders exceeding RMB 50 million | 2026 | In service |
| China Post and SF Group ↗ | Robots deployed in 'more than ten logistics centers' in collaboration with China Post and SF Group | 2026-05 | In service |
| Unnamed logistics customers ↗ | Logistics deployments in Shenzhen, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Hefei and Beijing, 'operational efficiencies of up to 70% in some scenarios' | 2026-03 | In service |
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Dated facts
Milestones, orders, factories and filings, newest first.
- 2026-05Raised 'over USD 200 million' in a round led by SF Group; said it began thousand-unit deliveries in Q2 2026 with growth exceeding 300% ↗
- 2026-03RMB 1 billion strategic round pushed valuation 'past RMB 10 billion'; investors include Singtel Innov8, Woori Venture Partners, CICC Porsche Fund and an unnamed South Korean tech company; cumulative orders exceeded RMB 500 million, 50% international ↗
- 2026-03Named industrial clients: Samsung, Geely, Renault, Lenovo, Haier, TCL and Century Golden Resources; company says nine of the world's top 10 listed tech companies are clients ↗
- 2025-11Series A+ of 'nearly RMB 1 billion (approximately USD 140 million)' completed 20 Nov 2025, led by Geely Capital with BAIC Capital; Yicai puts total raised over three rounds at CNY1.8 billion (USD253 million) ↗
- 2025-11Company milestone timeline lists 'Signed with the United Nations' and a warehousing & logistics solution in Nov 2025 ↗
- 2025-08L7 set 'world-record jumps' at the World Humanoid Robot Games: 1.47 m long jump and 95.64 cm high jump ↗
- 2025-07Series A CNY500 million (USD70.3 million) led by CDH Venture and Growth Capital, with Haier Capital ↗
- 2024-10STAR1 humanoid ran a Gobi Desert course at 3.6 m/s, joint torque raised from 150 N·m to 400 N·m ↗
- 2024-10Pre-A round CNY300 million (USD42.2 million) led by Alibaba, with Crystal Stream Capital and Vision Capital ↗
- 2023-08Founded August 2023, incubated by Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences; Tsinghua holds equity ↗
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Not yet confirmed
Claims seen in only one non-official place. Shown so they can be checked, not as findings.
- A further RMB 1 billion round announced 6 Jul 2026, led by China Chengtong (诚通基金), with ~RMB 5 billion raised in 2026 overall. Seen only in a search snippet of wallstreetcn.com/articles/3776271 (its robots.txt returned 500, so not fetched); Preqin lists a CNY 1 billion round led by CCT Fund Management. Not confirmed from an official release.
- Pulse 2.0 (Mar 2026) says 'over 1,000 units shipped in 2025' as if for robots overall. The underlying PR Newswire release attributes that figure to the standalone dexterous hand only.
- May 2026 release says the hardware 'has been adopted by' Boston Dynamics, NVIDIA and Apple. This is the company's own claim, with no confirmation from those companies.
- L7 parcel sorting/scanning pilot with SF Express, seen only on chipsilicon.pages.dev (low-authority).
- Caproasia item citing a $145M raise at a $1.45B valuation in Nov 2025, which conflicts with the other reports.
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Sources
Retrieved 2026-11-08.
- 北京星动纪元 | 行业唯一软硬件全栈自研具身智能 (site incl. /product/l7, /product/Q5, /product/M7, /about/us; values read from the site's JS bundle) — ROBOTERA
- Embodied Intelligence Pioneer Robotera Secures RMB 1 Billion in Series A+ Funding — TNGlobal / PR Newswire
- Chinese Robot Startup Robotera Bags USD140.5 Million in Latest Fundraiser, Led by Geely — Yicai Global
- ROBOTERA Raises RMB 1 Billion in Strategic Round, Valuation Exceeds RMB 10 Billion — PR Newswire via Bolsamania
- ROBOTERA Raises Over USD 200 Million in New Round Led by SF Group, HSG and IDG Capital — TNGlobal / PR Newswire
- 星动纪元完成10亿元战略轮融资 (Zhongguancun notice) — National Center for Science & Technology Innovation (ncsti.gov.cn)
- China's Robot Era Valued at Over 10 Billion Yuan — Caixin Global
- ROBOTERA L7 at WIC (China Daily repost) — China Daily
- Robot Era unleashes humanoids to traverse Gobi Desert of Northern China — Robotics Tomorrow
- ROBOTERA: $1 Billion At Over $10 Billion Valuation Raised To Scale Industrial Deployment — Pulse 2.0