ROBOTERA’s L7 Shows Full-Body Teleop, Then Talks Logistics ROI
ROBOTERA (星动纪元) brought its full-size biped L7 to the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing and used the booth for whole-body teleoperation, not a dance loop.
The company’s English product page lists L7 at 1.71 m and 65 kg without the dexterous hand, 55 DoF with XHAND1, a 4 m/s run, 400 N·m peak at the knee, 20 kg dual-arm payload, a 2.1 m arm span, and compute split as 80 TOPS (x86) + 275 TOPS (Orin). Battery: 60 V, 15 Ah. Binocular cameras and 3D lidar are on the spec sheet.
The hand on the end
XHAND 1 is the default five-finger end-effector: 12 active degrees of freedom, 80 N peak grip, 25 kg lift with the palm up (16 kg palm left), fingertip force 15 N, and a repeat open-close rate above 2 Hz. DoNews, covering the WRC booth on 20 August, adds the punch-line demos: pinch a shipping label, run a pipette, drive screws, and click a mouse at 10 times per second.
The same booth showed XHAND 1 PRO: 21 active DoF, 18 palm tactile sensors, 0.01 N stated sensitivity, backlash ≤ ±1 mm, repeat positioning ±0.1 mm, and open-close above 5 Hz.
The logistics claim
Sci-Tech Innovation Board Daily, via 36Kr on 21 August, says ROBOTERA pitched an embodied logistics stack it calls the first with product-market-fit verification. The company told those reporters it runs with SF Express and China Post in more than 10 logistics centers. Co-founder Xi Yue said site-to-site migration dropped from about two months to less than a week, and that customers will pay when takt, accuracy, and hours are numbers they can put in a spreadsheet.
A Reuters dispatch reprinted by The Indian Express (20 August) is more specific on units: a sales representative said ROBOTERA had more than 100 parcel-sorting robots in 15 warehouses, with China Post sites running since last year. That Reuters booth note describes a humanoid torso on a wheeled tripod, not the bipedal L7, so treat the warehouse count as the logistics product, not 100 walking L7s.
DoNews also repeats the company line that 9 of the world’s top 10 tech firms by market value are customers, mostly via the wheeled service robot Q5.
A Human’s Take
The L7 spec sheet is a real machine: 4 m/s, 55 DoF, a 25 kg palm-up lift on the hand. The interesting claim is the logistics clock, not the rotation jump. I want a shift report from one of those SF or China Post sites, not another booth teleop.