Facts

• Company: Robot Era
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: prototype
• Website: https://www.robotera.com/en/robotics/L7.html

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

L7 is Robot Era bipedal humanoid robot for embodied-AI research and real-world task development. It uses a high-degree-of-freedom body, vision and lidar perception, and VLA-based control for whole-body movement and manipulation.

Overview

L7 is Robot Era bipedal humanoid robot for embodied-AI research and real-world task development. It uses a high-degree-of-freedom body, vision and lidar perception, and VLA-based control for whole-body movement and manipulation.

Market context

Develops full-size humanoid robots and embodied AI systems focused on high-dynamic locomotion and dexterous manipulation.

• Target environment: Robotics demonstrations, structured test environments, research labs and future industrial or service pilots.
• Workflow context: Dynamic walking, balance control, dexterous manipulation, embodied AI testing and humanoid task demonstrations.
• Customer context: Research teams, industrial partners, investors and developers evaluating Robot Era's humanoid hardware and control stack.
• Deployment model: Prototype humanoid platform with public product page and demonstration-led market entry.
• Commercial maturity: Prototype-stage humanoid with public technical positioning but limited customer deployment proof.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on hardware reliability, autonomy, manipulation capability, safety, battery life, tooling and customer task fit.
• Market position: Mobility-forward Chinese humanoid platform in the same visible demo lane as newer embodied-AI hardware companies.
• Adjacent products: Unitree G1, Kuavo, Fourier GR-1, Matrix Humanoid

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Dynamic walking, balance control, dexterous manipulation, embodied AI testing and humanoid task demonstrations.

Capability

Whole-body control

Deployment environment

Robotics demonstrations, structured test environments, research labs and future industrial or service pilots.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Dynamic walking, balance control, dexterous manipulation, embodied AI testing and humanoid task demonstrations.
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment environment: Robotics demonstrations, structured test environments, research labs and future industrial or service pilots.

Specifications

• Height: 171 cm
• Weight: 65 kg
• Dof: 55
• Arm Dof: 7
• Hand Dof: 12 DoF
• Speed: 4 m/s
• Payload Capacity: Dual-arm max payload 20 kg
• Max Joint Torque: 400 Nm
• Manipulation: 7-DoF bionic mechanical arms and 12-DoF dexterous hands for fine operation tasks

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2026-05-08 - Article - RobotEra raises over $200M for humanoid logistics deployment

Timeline / Research

• 2026-04-27 - Deployment - RobotEra deploys L7 humanoid robots across more than 10 logistics centers - RobotEra L7 humanoid robots have been deployed across more than 10 logistics centers in China with partners including…
• 2026-03-05 - Funding - RobotEra raises $137M strategic financing round at $1.37B valuation - RobotEra raised $137 million in a strategic financing round.
• 2025-12-15 - Demonstration - ROBOTERA L7 humanoid robot and XHand 1 showcased at Humanoid Summit - Robotera demonstrated capabilities in a public setting.
• 2025-11-21 - Product Launch - ROBOTERA unveils Star-Act L7 logistics robot solution - The solution centers on Star-Act L7 for logistics workflows that combine autonomous mobility with embodied task execution.
• 2025-08-16 - Award - ROBOTERA L7 Wins High Jump Title at World Humanoid Robot Games - ROBOTERA's L7 robot achieved a standing high jump of 95.641 cm, setting a new world record for bipedal humanoid robots.
• 2025-07-23 - Product Launch - RobotEra unveils full-size humanoid robot L7 - RobotEra unveiled its full-size humanoid robot L7 platform.
• 2025-07-07 - Funding - RobotEra raises $69M Series A funding round - RobotEra raised $69 million in a Series A funding round.
• 2024-11-03 - Demonstration - STAR1 Robot Participates in 2024 Xi'an Marathon - • Robot Era's general-purpose humanoid robot, STAR1, joined runners at the 2024 Xi'an Marathon in Xi'an, China.
• 2024-10-18 - Funding - RobotEra raises $42M pre-Series A funding round - RobotEra raised $42 million in a pre-Series A funding round.
• 2024-10-16 - Demonstration - Robot Era's STAR1 Achieves 3.6 m/s Running Speed in Gobi Desert - STAR1 reached a top speed of 3.6 meters per second (8 mph) during tests in the Gobi Desert.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Named Commercial Humanoid Site Count - more than 10 logistics centers - 2026-06-11 - SF Express / China Post - logistics sorting - Caixin reported Robot Era robots deployed in more than 10 logistics centers with SF Expr…

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