Robotera 北京星动纪元
Beijing embodied AI company founded 2023 and backed by Tsinghua University; builds the L7 and STAR1 humanoids, Q5 wheeled robot and XHAND1 dexterous hand.
Robotera is an embodied AI company founded in August 2023 and headquartered in Tsinghua Science Park in Haidian District, Beijing, China. Incubated by Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences and with the university as a shareholder, the company develops both the hardware and the software of its humanoid robots in-house and has completed a Series A financing of close to 500 million yuan.
Its flagship is the L7, a full-size bipedal humanoid with 55 degrees of freedom that succeeds the 55-DoF STAR1. The Q5 is a wheeled service humanoid with 44 degrees of freedom, a narrow waist, dual 7-axis arms each able to lift 10 kg, 11-DoF hands, 3-DoF legs, LiDAR and vision-fusion navigation and speech support in more than 37 languages; the M7 is a modular upper-body platform for fixed-station tasks. The XHAND1 five-finger dexterous hand uses direct-drive joints with 12 active degrees of freedom and fingertip tactile sensor arrays and is offered in left and right versions. All platforms run ERA-42, the company's end-to-end embodied AI model, trained in part on full-body teleoperation data captured from human motion.
Robotera states that nine of the world's ten largest technology companies by market capitalization are customers; the XHAND1 has been adopted by research groups including MIT, UC Berkeley, ByteDance Seed and Skild AI.
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Q5 Tiny-Waisted Pro
- Model: Q5
- Launch Year: 2025
Ultra-humanoid service robot with slim-waist articulation.
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