RobotEra raises over $200M for humanoid logistics deployment

RobotEra raised more than $200 million in a new funding round led by SF Group, HSG and IDG Capital, with participation from investors including Hillhouse, CICC Capital, CCB Private Equity, Zhongguancun Science City and Taihu Lake Fund. The Beijing company said the round followed deployments across more than ten logistics centers with China Post and SF Group, and that it had begun thousand-unit deliveries in the second quarter of 2026.

The Company

RobotEra is a Beijing humanoid robotics company founded in 2023 with roots in Tsinghua University. Its public positioning is unusually full-stack for a young humanoid company: robot bodies, dexterous hands, joint systems, core actuation and embodied-AI software are developed internally, giving the company more control over the hardware and control layers that determine cost, reliability and deployment iteration.

The company first became widely visible through locomotion demonstrations. In 2024, its XBot-L humanoid walked on the Great Wall, handling uneven stone paths, stairs and outdoor terrain. The demonstration was tied to perceptive reinforcement learning methods that allowed the robot to recognize changing road conditions and adjust its gait.

The Research

RobotEra’s locomotion work has an academic trail behind the public demos. Humanoid-Gym, a reinforcement-learning framework for humanoid locomotion, was published in April 2024 by Xinyang Gu, Yen-Jen Wang and Jianyu Chen. The paper says the framework was verified on RobotEra’s XBot-S and XBot-L humanoids with zero-shot simulation-to-real transfer, using training in Isaac Gym and verification across physical simulation before real-world deployment.

That research lineage helps explain the company’s early emphasis on difficult terrain and whole-body control. The Great Wall demo gave RobotEra a public proof point around gait robustness before the company shifted attention to logistics, where walking, balance, object handling and long operating hours become a more measurable test.

The Deployment

The new funding round is tied to RobotEra’s L7 humanoid deployment in logistics facilities. RobotEra said its robots had entered more than ten logistics centers through work with China Post and SF Group, and that several sites had reached more than 85 percent of human-level efficiency. The company also said the robots were operating 24 hours a day and that thousand-unit deliveries had started in the second quarter of 2026.

SF Group’s role makes the round stronger than a capital-only event. The logistics company led the financing while also sitting inside the deployment path, giving RobotEra an industrial customer, operating environment and scale-up channel in the same transaction. The company said the fresh capital and deployment revenue would support further expansion across logistics, automotive, electronics and service-sector applications.

The Product Layer

RobotEra’s commercial push is built around more than a single humanoid body. The company has presented humanoid platforms alongside dexterous hands and says it develops more than 95 percent of its core components internally, including actuation systems, humanoid robot platforms and robotic hands. For logistics work, that vertical approach is relevant because parcel handling depends on repeated contact, grasp durability, arm control and maintenance economics as much as walking performance.

Maturity

RobotEra has disclosed a stronger commercial footing than most early humanoid companies, with named logistics partners, more than ten facilities, efficiency claims and thousand-unit delivery language. The open questions are still important: the company has not published site-by-site fleet counts, task mix, uptime, failure rates, intervention rates or customer-side productivity data. The next proof is whether L7 can sustain logistics work across many facilities while RobotEra keeps reducing cost and support burden through its in-house hardware stack.

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