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JAKA Zu 18 - Food Handling Package
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JAKA Zu 18 - Food Handling Package
JAKA RoboticsThe JAKA Zu 18 Food Handling Package is a 6-axis collaborative robot arm manufactured by JAKA Robotics (Shanghai, China, founded 2014) with an 18 kg payload, 1073 mm reach, and ±0.03 mm repeatability. The 'Food Handling Package' designation appears in the system label but no extracted facts describe food-specific certifications, end-effectors, or food-grade materials — all technical facts pertain to the base Zu 18 cobot. As an industrial cobot arm, it executes programmed tasks autonomously once deployed, with no evidence of human teleoperation or remote task performance during operation. JAKA has raised over $200 million in funding (Series C + D) and serves automotive, semiconductor, and electronics industries, though food handling deployment specifics are unsubstantiated by the available evidence.
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Specification
- payload
- 18 kg
- reach
- 1073 mm
- robot weight
- 35 kg (robot arm only)
- power consumption
- 600 W
- maximum TCP speed
- 3.5 m/s
- joint ranges
- J1: ±270°, J2: -85°/+265°, J3: ±175°, J4: -85°/+265°, J5: ±270°, J6: ±270°
- operating temperature range
- 0–50°C
Price
No public price — contact the supplier for a quote.
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Evidence-graded claims from the JAKA Robotics deep report
JAKA Robotics raised a ~$150M Series D round in H1 2022, backed by Prosperity7 Ventures, SoftBank, and Temasek.
The raise is corroborated by three independent sources — PR Newswire press release, CBInsights financial data (precise figure: $148.04M), and The Robot Report trade press — all naming the same investors and timeframe; the minor $150M vs $148.04M discrepancy is rounding only [3][4][7].
from JAKA Robotics deep report →JAKA's cobot arms (JAKA Zu series) are used in real-world industrial and research robotics applications.
The Robot Report (independent trade press) confirms deployment in automotive, semiconductor, and electronics industries [4], and a Reddit r/computervision community post independently mentions JAKA 6-axis robots being used in computer vision/robotics research contexts [11]; however, scale and Western market penetration remain unverified.
from JAKA Robotics deep report →
JAKA has deployed 10,000+ cobots worldwide across automotive, semiconductor, and electronics industries.
The 10,000+ figure comes solely from JAKA's own LinkedIn company profile (a vendor/marketing channel), and the r/PLC community reports low brand awareness among Western industrial automation professionals as of December 2024, suggesting the deployments are likely concentrated in China with no independent global verification [5][12].
from JAKA Robotics deep report →JAKA filed for a CNY 750M IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2023, with CNY 420M earmarked to build 50,000 units/year production capacity.
EqualOcean news independently reported the IPO filing and the 50,000-unit capacity target [10], but no subsequent source in the dossier confirms the IPO was approved, completed, or that the production facility was built — the filing status remains unresolved.
from JAKA Robotics deep report →
The JAKA π humanoid can walk at 1.8 m/s, run, and jump.
These performance figures appear exclusively in a commerce/product listing on humanoid.guide (a vendor-sourced spec sheet), and no independent teardown, third-party test, journalist review, or user report has verified the walking speed, running, or jumping capability of the JAKA π [2].
from JAKA Robotics deep report →JAKA π is safe to operate alongside humans.
Human-safety is a vendor-only claim from the humanoid.guide commerce listing (confidence 0.7 in the dossier itself), with no independent safety certification, regulator approval, or third-party test cited anywhere in the dossier [2].
from JAKA Robotics deep report →
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