Robotera
Founded by Professor Chen Jianyu, doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University and member of Professor Andrew Yao's team, RobotEra is the only embodied-intelligence enterprise directly held by Tsinghua itself. It pursues a WM+VLA paradigm with the in-house ERA-42 end-to-end VLA model and ships the L7 full-size bipedal humanoid (55 DoF, 400 N·m peak torque, 4 m/s sprint), the M7 upper-body platform and the XHAND 1 fully direct-driven dexterous hand, with full-stack self-research. After strategic, Series C and C-II rounds in 2026, total funding reaches about RMB 4.9B at a valuation above RMB 10B; it has started thousand-unit batch delivery with 50% overseas revenue, serving 9 of the world's top 10 tech companies by market cap.
- City
- 北京
- Founded
- 2023
- Ticker
- Unlisted
- Website
- robotera.com ↗
- Team size
- 171 · 2025
Workforce
171 registered employees with over 80% in R&D; the core team comes from Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences and other academic labs.
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Milestones
Sources: MechAwakening '2026 China Humanoid Company List' (2026-08) and public industry research; A-share tickers limited to high-confidence names.