JAKA Robotics

A Shanghai collaborative-arm maker founded in 2014 whose STAR Market IPO was later terminated.

JAKA Robotics was founded in Shanghai in July 2014; its founder and chairman, Mingyang Li, graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and previously worked in sales at Tetra Pak, and the company's early R&D was done in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University's robotics institute. It started out integrating packaging lines for dairy gift boxes, launched its first Zu-series collaborative robot in 2017, and has since expanded into the Zu, Pro, and C series, with payloads of roughly 1-20 kg, supporting kinesthetic teaching and work in the same space as people. Its investors include SoftBank Vision Fund and Temasek. It filed for a STAR Market IPO in May 2023, which was terminated on December 19, 2025. In January 2026 it set up a joint research center for general-purpose intelligent robots with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, beginning to move into embodied AI.

ExampleA factory uses a JAKA Zu-series collaborative arm for machine tending; a worker drags the arm through the motion once to teach it.

Also called

JAKA

Related

Collaborative Robot · 6-Axis Robot Arm · Kinesthetic Teaching · Universal Robots · Dobot · Flexiv Robotics

Sources

21世纪经济报道：9岁上海机器人，孙正义3亿投它 (Chinese)
新浪财经：节卡机器人IPO终止 (Chinese)
上海交大机动学院：节卡共建通用智能机器人联合研究中心 (Chinese)

As of

2026-01