RobotEra

A Tsinghua-incubated humanoid-robot company building its own hardware, dexterous hands, and models in-house.

RobotEra was founded in Beijing in August 2023; founder Jianyu Chen is an assistant professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), and the company was incubated with Tsinghua as a shareholder, describing itself as fully self-developed across both hardware and software. On hardware it released the humanoid STAR1 in August 2024, the full-size humanoid L7 in July 2025 (55 degrees of freedom across the body), the 12-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand XHAND1, and an upgraded XHAND 1 PRO in June 2026. On models it has released the end-to-end VLA model ERA-42, and the team has also published papers on the video-prediction policy VPP and the controllable world model Ctrl-World. It is one of the few Chinese companies building its own robot body, dexterous hand, and large model all in-house, with products aimed at logistics, manufacturing, and commercial services.

ExampleThe same ERA-42 model drives the L7, whether it's showing off street-dance-level dynamic moves or fine manipulation like tightening a screw or sorting items.

Also called

Beijing RobotEra

Related

ERA-42 · RobotEra STAR1 · RobotEra L7 · RobotEra XHAND1 · Video Prediction Policy · Tsinghua University Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

Sources

星动纪元官网：关于我们 (Chinese)

As of

2026-06