{"id":"robotera-l7","manufacturer":"Robotera","model":"L7","country":"CN","description":"L7 is a full-size bipedal humanoid from Beijing's Robotera (Xingdong Jiyuan), a company partly owned by Tsinghua University. It stands 171 cm, has 55 degrees of freedom including hands and runs at up to 4 m/s. Robotera targets logistics, manufacturing, research and entertainment, with control built on its own VLA model, ERA-42.","catalog_status":"in-development","specifications":{"height_cm":171,"weight_kg":65,"payload_kg":20,"dof":null,"speed_ms":4,"battery_h":null},"capabilities":["sort","assemble","obstacle"],"source":{"url":"https://www.robotera.com","verified_at":null,"verified_fields":[],"review_status":"requires_current_source_check"},"evidence":{"manufacturer_review":null,"mera_field_test":{"status":"not_published","report_url":null,"measured_at":null},"verification_note":"A manufacturer documentation check does not verify field performance, inventory or MERA compatibility."},"knowledge":{"summary":"L7 is a full-size bipedal humanoid from Beijing's Robotera (Xingdong Jiyuan), a company partly owned by Tsinghua University. It stands 171 cm, has 55 degrees of freedom including hands and runs at up to 4 m/s. Robotera targets logistics, manufacturing, research and entertainment, with control built on its own VLA model, ERA-42.","sections":[{"h":"Design and technology","p":["The datasheet lists 1.71 m height and 65 kg without hands. The body has 31 DoF, 55 including hands. Each arm has 7 DoF with a 1,660 mm span, and a cross-axis wrist tilts ±90° front to back and ±45° sideways. With elbows bent at 90° the two arms hold 20 kg together, and the working envelope is a 2.1 m diameter circle.","In-house knee joints peak at 400 N·m and 25 rad/s. Robotera quotes a 4 m/s running speed and shows a 360° spinning jump. The robot uses XHAND1 hands with 12 active, directly driven DoF, plus a stereo camera, a 360° 3D lidar, microphones and a speaker. Battery capacity is listed as 60 V, 15 Ah, and compute as 80 TOPS (x86) plus 275 TOPS (NVIDIA Orin)."]},{"h":"Software and AI","p":["Robotera bills L7 as China's first 55-DoF bipedal humanoid driven by a VLA model, which it calls ERA-42. The same model runs on the L7-U, an upper-body torso on a stand; the company says skills learned on the torso transfer to the full robot without extra data."]},{"h":"Applications","p":["Robotera's material shows L7 sorting and scanning parcels in logistics, handling and assembling parts in manufacturing, serving whole-body control research and foundation model training, and performing hip-hop dances and bartending. The datasheet names no L7 customers; the company's site says nine of the world's ten most valuable tech companies are its customers."]},{"h":"Manufacturer","p":["Beijing Robotera Technology develops both hardware and software in-house. Its website says Tsinghua University is a shareholder, that it has closed a Series A of nearly 500 million yuan and that it delivers products at scale. Besides L7 it offers models such as M7 and Q5 and its XHAND dexterous hands."]},{"h":"Price and availability","p":["Robotera does not publish an L7 price; inquiries go to its sales team. The robot comes as the full L7 humanoid or the L7-U torso."]}],"timeline":[["2026-10","L7 and L7-U datasheet with the ERA-42 model published on Robotera's site"]],"faq":[["How tall and heavy is the Robotera L7?","171 cm and 65 kg without hands."],["How many DoF does L7 have?","55 including XHAND1 hands, 31 in the body."],["How fast can L7 run?","Up to 4 m/s, according to Robotera."],["What is the L7-U?","The L7 upper body on a stand, running the same AI model as the full robot."],["How much does the Robotera L7 cost?","No price is published."]],"sources":[{"title":"ROBOTERA L7 datasheet (EN)","publisher":"Robotera","url":"https://cos.robotera.com/doc/L7-EN.pdf","date":"2026-10"},{"title":"北京星动纪元 | 行业唯一软硬件全栈自研具身智能","publisher":"Robotera","url":"https://www.robotera.com/","date":"2026-10"}],"updated":"2026-10-10"},"mera":{"rental_with_operator":false,"sale_in_offer":false,"availability":"confirmation_required","shop_url":null},"url":"https://merarobotics.com/blog/humanoids/robotera-l7","inquiry_url":"https://merarobotics.com/en/start?service=purchase&robot=robotera-l7"}