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ROBOTERA—ROBOTERA raises over $200 million Series B led by SF Group, HSG and IDG Capital; valuation 10+ billion RMBL7ROBOTERA—ROBOTERA initiates thousand-unit deliveries in Q2 2026; growth exceeding 300%; deployments expand across 10+ logistics centersROBOTERA—ROBOTERA raises RMB 1 billion in strategic round, valuation exceeds RMB 10 billion

ROBOTERA

L7 humanoid robot, ERA-42, embodied AI, logistics robots

CN$1.4B privateest. 2023robotera.com (opens robotera.com)Checked 11 Oct

The brief

Analyst view
  • Founded Aug 2023 by Dr. Chen Jianyu, Tsinghua assistant professor and roboticist. Raised RMB 1B + $200M.
  • L7: 171cm, 65kg, 55-DoF, 4 m/s. ERA-42 AI. 200+ shipped 2025; 1k+ units Q2 2026.
  • 10+ logistics centers (China Post, SF). Boston Dynamics, NVIDIA, Apple deployments. 95% core components in-house.

Technical approach

As reported
In-house hardware

95% proprietary components

Design and manufacture motors, transmissions, sensors, frames in-house. Vertical integration.

Direct-drive hands

12-DoF dexterous gripper

No-gearbox actuation: 20 kg payloads, precision grasping, industrial work.

Vision-language-action AI

ERA-42 embodied model

Merges visual, proprioceptive and language streams. On-device inference, no cloud dependency.

Group robotics

Multi-robot coordination

L7 units coordinate sorting, packing. Peer-to-peer, local computation, no central server.

Primer