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Elephant Robotics is a robotics company founded 2016, based in China, developing 5 robots primarily in the Cobot category.
Desktop collaborative robots and open-source robotic arms
Elephant Robotics builds desktop collaborative robot arms and related automation products, including myCobot 320 M5, myCobot 320 Raspberry Pi, myCobot 280, MechArm, and Mercury X1. Its products target makers, education, research, and light industrial automation, with open-source software support such as ROS for its myCobot series.
Active products
5
Maker Score
67
Very strong evidence
View factor breakdown
Price range
$16K
1 of 5 priced
Top-rated product
64.7
Robo Score
myCobot 280
Company facts
- HQ
- Shenzhen, China
- Founded
- 2016 · 10 yrs
- Stage
- pre_seed
- Website
- www.elephantrobotics.com
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Maker Score
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Milestones
Elephant Robotics listed myCobot 320 M5 among its product offerings and noted an M5 joint-production relationship with Shenzhen Mingzhan Technology Co., Ltd.
Elephant Robotics marketed myCobot 320 Raspberry Pi as a 6-DoF cobot for makers and scientific researchers.
Company founded in Shenzhen, China.
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
46.1momentumElephant Robotics Brings Open Robotics Platforms and Embodied AI Innovations to IROS 2026
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
Why Elephant Robotics has been in the news, across 8 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's Robo Score — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Active products by Elephant Robotics
5 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | myCobot 280 | Cobot | Payload 0.3 kg·Reach 280 mm | — | 2020 | 64.7 |
| 2 |  | myCobot 280 Raspberry Pi | Cobot | Payload 0.3 kg·Reach 280 mm | — | 2023 | 60.9 |
| 3 |  | myCobot 320 M5stack | Cobot | Payload 1 kg·Reach 350 mm | — | — | 57.7 |
| 4 |  | Mercury X1 | Humanoid | Height 1.18 m·Weight 55 kg | $16K | 2023 | 57.0 |
| 5 |  | MechArm | Industrial Arm | Reach 270 mm·Payload 0.3 kg | — | — | 51.6 |
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