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JAKA Zu 18 - Mobile Package
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JAKA Zu 18 - Mobile Package
JAKA RoboticsThe JAKA Zu 18 Mobile Package is a 6-axis collaborative robot arm manufactured by JAKA Robotics (Shanghai, China, founded 2014), featuring an 18 kg payload, 1,073 mm reach, ±0.03 mm repeatability, and a 35 kg body weight. It is designed for tool-free, fence-free collaborative operation across a wide range of industrial tasks including assembly, welding, palletizing, and machine tending, with programming via mobile app (no physical teach pendant). Pricing varies significantly across resellers ($32,200–$45,250 USD; €26,450–€31,310 EUR), and the system is backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and recent strategic investors including Foxconn affiliate Guangyu Technology. Several extracted research facts (Amazon Robin fleet, RoboRetriever, ReplanVLM) are unrelated to the JAKA Zu 18 and appear to be noise from the extraction pipeline; they are not used in the reconciled picture. The autonomy level is Autonomous: the robot arm executes programmed industrial tasks independently once deployed, with humans performing setup, programming, and maintenance but not the tasks themselves.
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Specification
- payload
- 18 kg
- reach
- 1,073 mm
- degrees of freedom / axes
- 6
- robot arm weight
- 35 kg
- maximum TCP speed
- 3.5 m/s
- power supply
- 100–240 VAC, 50/60 Hz; 500 W typical consumption
- price range
- $32,200–$45,250 USD (US resellers); €26,450–€31,310 EUR (European reseller); ~₹20,88,909 INR (Alibaba)
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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