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Mercury A1
Elephant Robotics
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Mercury A1
Elephant RoboticsThe Mercury A1 is a 7-DOF lightweight robotic arm developed by Elephant Robotics (Shenzhen, China), featuring self-developed 'Power Spring' harmonic modules, carbon fiber construction, and a 3.5 kg net weight. It is designed for educational and industrial applications, supporting ROS/MoveIt/Gazebo/MuJoCo simulation environments and multiple programming interfaces. The arm operates autonomously once programmed — executing pre-defined or learned tasks without a human performing or driving the task — though it requires user setup, programming, and periodic maintenance. Several facts in the extracted dataset (keyboard hardware, synthesizer, outboard motors, Mercury bank, 3D printer mod) are clearly unrelated to the Mercury A1 robot and have been excluded from the reconciled picture. There are minor conflicts in DOF count (6 vs 7) and maximum output torque (20 Nm vs 80 Nm) across sources.
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Specification
- degrees_of_freedom
- 7 DOF (per manufacturer and most sources); one third-party listing states 6 DOF — see conflicts
- net_weight
- 3.5 kg
- payload_capacity
- 1 kg
- reach
- 440 mm
- battery_endurance
- Up to 8 hours motion endurance (for Mercury B1/X1 humanoid system)
- power_supply
- 100–240V AC
Price
No public price — contact the supplier for a quote.
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Evidence-graded claims from the Elephant Robotics deep report
The ultraArm's speed must be reduced to below 50% when the load exceeds 500 g — implying meaningful payload and speed limitations relative to marketing positioning.
This operational constraint is explicitly stated in the ultraArm product page [6] by the vendor itself, constituting a self-disclosed technical limitation that directly qualifies the arm's marketed capabilities; no independent test is needed to flag this as a material constraint, though real-world performance at these limits remains unverified.
from Elephant Robotics deep report →
The robot arms (myCobot, mechArm, ultraArm, myCobot Pro) autonomously execute tasks — pick-and-place, engraving, drawing, AI vision-guided sorting — without a human performing or driving those tasks during operation.
Vendor sources [1][5][6][11] describe these task capabilities, and one YouTube review [4] confirms the ~$600 price and 6-axis form factor, but no independent operational test, customer deployment report, or third-party benchmark confirms sustained autonomous task execution in practice; general community evidence [12][15][16] warns of a significant gap between demo and production reliability.
from Elephant Robotics deep report →The product line spans a payload range of 0.25 kg to 10 kg, with prices from $199 to $21,999, covering 4-axis and 6-axis configurations.
Payload range and prices are stated on the official shop and website [1][2][3][6][11], and the YouTube review [4] independently corroborates the ~$600 entry price and 6-axis form factor, but payload specs and the upper price/payload figures have not been verified by any independent test or third-party source.
from Elephant Robotics deep report →Elephant Robotics has established academic partnerships with the University of Melbourne, Tsinghua University, NRNU (Russia), and South China University of Technology, and has received recognition from Microsoft and Intel.
These partnerships are listed solely on Elephant Robotics' own official website [1][11] at confidence 0.90; no independent university announcement, joint publication, Microsoft/Intel press release, or third-party confirmation of any of these relationships appears in the dossier.
from Elephant Robotics deep report →
Mercury humanoid robots (A1/B1/X1) have entered batch delivery — i.e., are in serial production and shipping to customers at scale.
The only source for batch delivery is Elephant Robotics' own official website [1][11]; no independent customer, journalist, or third-party reviewer has confirmed receipt, volume, or operational use of Mercury units, and the dossier explicitly flags confidence at only 0.88 with no corroborating independent evidence.
from Elephant Robotics deep report →Elephant Robotics products are suitable for commercial deployment with simplified setup and reduced technical barriers, making them viable for manufacturing and commercial applications beyond education/R&D.
No independent customer case study, manufacturer deployment report, or third-party audit confirms commercial-scale deployment; community sources [12][15][16] specifically highlight that real-world industrial deployment is far harder than demo performance, high maintenance costs, and negative ROI are common — and no Elephant Robotics-specific counter-evidence exists in the dossier.
from Elephant Robotics deep report →
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