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STAR1
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- L7 flagship model ~171 cm (5'7"); STAR1 is a separate humanoid variant tested in extreme environments
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STAR1
Robot EraSTAR1 is a full-size humanoid robot developed by ROBOTERA (星动纪元), a Beijing-based company founded in August 2023 by Chen Jianyu (Tsinghua/UC Berkeley). It features 55 DOF, 7-DOF arms, 12-DOF XHand1 dexterous hands, Intel+Nvidia Orin compute, and the ERA-42 VLA model for autonomous task execution. The robot has been deployed at 10+ logistics centers (China Post, SF Express) across multiple Chinese cities, with vendor claims of 85% human-level efficiency and thousand-robot-scale batch deliveries in Q2 2026. ROBOTERA has raised over $400M cumulatively across multiple rounds, achieving a valuation exceeding $1.4B. Independent evidence confirms strong locomotion performance (3.6 m/s, multi-terrain stability) and fine manipulation capabilities, though large-scale autonomous deployment claims remain primarily vendor-sourced.
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- L7 flagship model ~171 cm (5'7"); STAR1 is a separate humanoid variant tested in extreme environments
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Evidence-graded claims from the Robot Era deep report
ROBOTERA has raised over $350 million in combined recent funding rounds, achieving a valuation above RMB 10 billion (~$1.4B).
The official PR Newswire release confirms >$200M for one round, but the $350M combined total and ~$280M alternative figure come from secondary aggregators with no independent audit, leaving the precise cumulative total unverified.
from Robot Era deep report →ROBOTERA develops over 95% of core hardware components in-house, including the 12-DoF XHand dexterous manipulator.
The >95% in-house integration figure is a vendor self-report from ROBOTERA's own communications, and no independent supply-chain audit or third-party teardown has been identified to corroborate it.
from Robot Era deep report →ROBOTERA has initiated thousand-unit deployments across over 10 logistics centers with China Post and SF Group as of Q2 2026.
Deployment partnerships with China Post and SF Group are corroborated by SF Group's lead investor role, but the specific thousand-unit scale and >10 facilities count are vendor-reported figures without independent third-party confirmation.
from Robot Era deep report →The ERA-42 VLA model processes raw visual inputs and generates motor controls dynamically without task-specific reprogramming.
Research-adjacent ERA frameworks show measurable benchmark gains (e.g., +8.4% on EB-ALFRED, +19.4% on EB-Manipulation), but these are academic proxies; direct independent evaluation of the production ERA-42 model in real deployments is absent.
from Robot Era deep report →ROBOTERA's cross-border logistics inspection solution is valued at over 50 million yuan and is deployed at customs.
The >50M yuan contract value and customs deployment are vendor-reported claims; no independent government procurement record or customs authority confirmation has been identified in the available evidence.
from Robot Era deep report →
ROBOTERA's deployed robots achieve up to 85% of human-level efficiency and operate 24/7 in logistics centers.
The 85% efficiency and 24/7 operation figures originate exclusively from ROBOTERA's own vendor communications, and no independent operational audit of deployed units exists; sector-wide patterns of overstated autonomy further reduce confidence.
from Robot Era deep report →Boston Dynamics, NVIDIA, and Apple have adopted ROBOTERA systems.
This claim does not appear in ROBOTERA's own official PR Newswire press release, none of the three named companies have publicly confirmed it, and no independent source corroborates it.
from Robot Era deep report →
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