Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: China
• Founded: 2016
• Website: https://www.eliterobots.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Commercial
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Elite Robots manufactures collaborative robot arms and turnkey automation solutions for industrial users. Its six-axis cobots cover payloads from 3 kg to 30 kg and are used for palletizing, assembly, inspection, welding, machine tending and other factory workflows.

Market context

Elite Robots is moving cobots from components into fully packaged applications, where the system—not the arm—is the product. RoboBarista shows how manipulation platforms can be deployed directly into commercial environments without custom integration.

Facts

• Website: https://www.eliterobots.com
• HQ: Suzhou, China
• Founded: 2016
• Segment: Industrial
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2026-03-25 - Series D+ - $83M - Elite Robots closes RMB 600 million D+ financing round - source: autonews.gasgoo.com
• 2021-09-07 - Series B - $27M - Elite Robots closes $27 million Series B financing round - source: therobotreport.com

Investors

• Fortune Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-25
• Harvest Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-25
• Lavender Hill Capital Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-25
• Oriza Holdings - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-25
• Zhengzhou Embodied Intelligence Industrial Fund - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-03-25

Commercial

1 commercial event; 1 commercial order; latest event 2023-10-17

• 2023-10-17 - Commercial order - Elite Robots secures 3,000-unit cobot order from new energy customer - source: eliterobots.com

Collaborative robot manufacturer

Elite Robots develops collaborative robot arms for industrial automation, education, light manufacturing and flexible production tasks.

• Target environment: Factories, machine-tending cells, electronics production, education labs, packaging lines and small automation workcells.
• Deployment model: Cobot hardware and software supplied through robot arm product lines, distributors and automation partners.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, educators, system integrators, small factories and teams adopting flexible automation.
• Workflow context: Machine tending, pick-and-place, palletizing, screwdriving, inspection, education and collaborative task automation.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial cobot manufacturer with product families serving industrial and education markets.
• Market position: Collaborative robot OEM focused on accessible industrial robot arms for flexible automation.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on application fit, ease of programming, payload and reach requirements, safety, support and channel quality.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes cobots, light industrial robot arms, education robotics, machine tending and flexible manufacturing.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-03-25 - Funding - Elite Robots closes RMB 600 million D+ financing round - Elite Robots closed a RMB 600 million D+ financing round.
• 2026-03-12 - Product Launch - Elite Robots launches RoboBarista autonomous coffee station - Elite Robots introduced RoboBarista, a fully automated robotic coffee station for commercial environments.
• 2025-10-16 - Capability - Elite Robots hosts Malaysia HR Ministry delegation for advanced manufacturing training collaboration - Elite Robots hosted a delegation from Malaysia's Ministry of Human Resources.
• 2025-09-26 - Partnership - Elite Robots and Scantech form strategic partnership for robotics and 3D vision - Elite Robots and Scantech signed a strategic partnership agreement at Elite Robots' premises.
• 2025-08-18 - Partnership - Elite Robots partners with Scanology on automated 3D measurement solution - Elite Robots partnered with Scanology, a Scantech sub-brand, on an automated 3D measurement solution.
• 2023-10-17 - Commercial Order - Elite Robots secures 3,000-unit cobot order from new energy customer - Elite Robots announced a 3,000-unit collaborative robot order from an unnamed Chinese corporation.
• 2023-06-28 - Product Launch - Elite Robots launches CS collaborative robot series - Elite Robots showcased its CS Series collaborative robots at Automatica 2023.
• 2023-06-14 - Product Launch - Elite Robots introduces EC64-19 and CS620 at Automatica 2023 - Elite Robots announced that EC64-19 and CS620 would be presented as new top-of-the-line cobots at Automatica 2023.
• 2023-05-20 - Product Launch - Elite Robots introduces CS620 20 kg payload cobot at EASTEC - Elite Robots introduced the CS620 collaborative robot at EASTEC in the United States.
• 2022-09-29 - Capability - Elite Robots highlights composite mobile robot systems and ecosystem partnerships - Elite Robots described its work on composite robotic systems combining cobots with AGVs and vision systems.
• 2021-09-07 - Funding - Elite Robots closes $27 million Series B financing round - Elite Robots closed a $27 million Series B financing round.

Operations / Deployments

• 2023-10-17 - Commercial Order - Elite Robots secures 3,000-unit cobot order from new energy customer - Elite Robots announced a 3,000-unit collaborative robot order from an unnamed Chinese corporation.

Team

• Cao Yunan - Founder, Chairman and CEO
• Yunan Cao - Chairman and CEO

Relationships

• cobot customer - Elite Robots secured a 3,000-unit collaborative robot order from a new-energy customer.
• technology_partner - Strategic partnership combining Elite Robots collaborative robotics with Scantech 3D vision (announced 2025-09-26).
• technology_partner - Partnership on automated 3D measurement combining Scanology AM-DESK with Elite Robots EC66 and CS66 cobots (2025-08-18).

Context tags

• Factories - Customer Environment
• Collaborative robot arm builder - Peer Group
• Collaborative factory automation - Workflow
• Cobot arm OEM - Stack Layer

Customers and deployments

• Customer Bound Cobot Count - 3,000 cobot units - 2023-10-17 - new energy customer - cobot manufacturing automation - Elite Robots secured a 3,000-unit collaborative robot order from a new-energy customer. - source postu…