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STAR1
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- Height
- L7 flagship model ~171 cm (5'7"); STAR1 is a separate humanoid variant tested in extreme environments
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STAR1
Robot EraAvailability
Specification
- hardware_height
- L7 flagship model ~171 cm (5'7"); STAR1 is a separate humanoid variant tested in extreme environments
Price
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Evidence-graded claims from the Robot Era deep report
ROBOTERA's M7/L7 robots are deployed on live parcel sorting and induction tasks at China Post and SF Group logistics centers.
Robots Daily independently reports the M7's live deployment at China Post's Guangzhou distribution center performing sorting tasks [8], and SF Group's role as lead investor in the May 2026 round is confirmed by PR Newswire [9] and Caixin Global [6], with Caixin — an independent financial outlet — corroborating the logistics deployment context; however, the precise operational scope and number of active units at each site remain unverified.
from Robot Era deep report →ROBOTERA has raised approximately $350 million USD in total funding across two rounds (RMB ~1 billion in March 2026 and >$200 million in May 2026), achieving a valuation above RMB 10 billion (~$1.4 billion USD).
Caixin Global — an independent financial news outlet — independently confirms the >$200M May 2026 round and the RMB 10 billion+ valuation [6], corroborated by CNTechPost [7] and the PR Newswire release [9]; the March 2026 RMB 1 billion round is separately confirmed by multiple news sources, though the combined ~$350M total is an analyst aggregation.
from Robot Era deep report →
ROBOTERA's XHAND1 is a five-fingered, 12-DoF full direct-drive dexterous hand developed entirely in-house, as part of a >95% internally developed hardware stack.
Robots Daily confirms the XHAND1 name and five-finger design [8], and Frontier Enterprise reports the >95% in-house hardware claim [12], but both are trade-press articles relying on vendor briefings; no independent teardown or component-level audit has verified the DoF count, direct-drive architecture, or in-house sourcing percentage.
from Robot Era deep report →ROBOTERA's humanoid robots are genuinely physical hardware — not a person in a suit — as demonstrated by a live on-stage dissection revealing synthetic skin, muscle-like material, and a mechanical skeleton.
A YouTube video source describes the live dissection demonstration as a direct response to public skepticism [25], providing reasonable evidence the hardware is genuine, but no independent third-party teardown or engineering verification has been documented in the dossier.
from Robot Era deep report →
ROBOTERA's robots achieve 85% of human-level working efficiency in harsh logistics environments.
CNTechPost reports this figure as a vendor statement [7], and no independent benchmark, third-party time-and-motion study, or customer-reported productivity data has been found to corroborate it.
from Robot Era deep report →ROBOTERA has initiated thousand-unit deliveries of humanoid robots in Q2 2026, with over 300% quarter-on-quarter growth, deployed across more than 10 logistics centers.
These figures originate solely from ROBOTERA's own PR Newswire press release [9]; RobotsAtlas's corroborating report [10] appears to be secondary reporting of the same vendor announcement rather than independent confirmation, and no customer, regulator, or journalist has independently verified unit counts or growth rates.
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