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Robotic Arms

Desktop and lightweight articulated arms for education, prototyping, and small-scale automation

Category advisor note

What buyers should know about robotic arms

Good for

Robotic arms fit fixed manipulation tasks such as welding, sorting, assembly, machine tending, packaging, and lab automation.

Usually not for

They are not enough on their own when the job needs navigation, scene understanding, or frequent task changes without fixtures.

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Buyers should compare payload, reach, repeatability, tooling, controller ecosystem, programming effort, safety, and integrator availability.

Sourcing note

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Unitree Z1

Unitree Z1

Unitree Robotics

A lightweight six-axis collaborative robotic arm from Unitree designed for mobile platforms and fixed-base use, with force control and an open SDK.

From $15,999

Mycobot 280

myCobot 280

Elephant Robotics

Elephant Robotics' compact six-axis desktop collaborative robot arm for education, research, and makers, available in multiple control-platform variants.

From $649

Mypalletizer 260

myPalletizer 260

Elephant Robotics

Elephant Robotics' compact, fully-wrapped 4-axis desktop robotic arm for makers and STEM education.

From $549

Mecharm 270

mechArm 270

Elephant Robotics

A compact six-axis desktop robotic arm from Elephant Robotics for education, research, and light automation.

From $799

Mybuddy 280

myBuddy 280

Elephant Robotics

Elephant Robotics' dual-arm humanoid collaborative robot powered by Raspberry Pi, built for research, education, and AI manipulation learning.

From $1,699

Ultraarm

ultraArm P340

Elephant Robotics

Compact desktop stepper robot arm from Elephant Robotics for drawing, engraving, and vision-based pick-and-place in education and research.

From $999

Dobot Nova 2

Dobot Nova 2

Dobot

Lightweight 6-axis collaborative robot from Dobot's Nova series, built for retail and service automation with no-code, drag-to-teach programming.

Dobot Nova 5

Dobot Nova 5

Dobot

Six-axis collaborative robot arm from Dobot, built for compact commercial, retail, and service deployments with easy no-code setup.

From $13,790

Dobot Mg400

Dobot MG400

Dobot

Ultra-compact desktop four-axis collaborative robot for small-batch production, with drag-to-teach and collision detection in an all-in-one base.

From $3,495

Dobot M1 Pro

Dobot M1 Pro

Dobot

A compact, all-in-one second-generation collaborative SCARA robot from Dobot, built for small and medium-sized factories.

From $5,990

KAIST Ambidex

Ambidex

NAVER LABS

NAVER LABS' research dual-arm robot using a cable-driven mechanism for lightweight, safe human-robot interaction.

Mycobot 320

myCobot 320

Elephant Robotics

Elephant Robotics' six-axis collaborative robotic arm for education, research, and light commercial automation.

From $2,399

Mycobot Pro 600

myCobot Pro 600

Elephant Robotics

Elephant Robotics commercial six-axis collaborative robotic arm with Raspberry Pi control and harmonic-reducer joints for light industrial use.

Reachy 2

Reachy 2

Pollen Robotics

Open-source humanoid platform by Pollen Robotics for research, education, and embodied-AI development, with bio-inspired arms and an optional mobile base.

From $70,000

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