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Overview
Taobotics is a Shenzhen-based robotics company spun out of Northwestern Polytechnical University’s unmanned-systems lab, focused on autonomous mobile robots and full-stack mobile robot solutions for retail, education, and industrial scenarios.
Primary product
Autonomous mobile retail robot platform (mobile robot system solutions for supermarkets and other scenarios)
Founded
2018
Headquarters
Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Team size
1-10
Industry
Robotics
Sub-industry
Mobile robotics / autonomous mobile robots
Offices
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China (HQ)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (Europe)
Business model
B2B hardware sales
Direct online retail/e-commerce
Custom robotics solutions
Education and training services
Research/platform support services
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$150K
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2019
Latest amount
$150K
Mar 2019 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Investors
Work & culture
Public materials describe Taobotics as engineering-led, university-linked, and research-oriented, with an emphasis on school-enterprise collaboration, open-source robotics, and self-developed hardware/software/navigation systems.
Product & market
Pricing
Quote-based direct sales and custom project/service pricing; not publicly disclosed in detail.
Differentiators
- —Originated from Northwestern Polytechnical University’s unmanned-systems research
- —Full-stack perception, control, decision-making, and systems capabilities
- —Broad product line spanning retail, education, industrial parks, and aerospace
- —Open-source robotics stack tied to the HANDS-FREE GitHub organization
- —Strong university and enterprise collaboration footprint
Technology
ROS
SLAM
LiDAR
MAVROS
MAVLink
embedded systems
open-source robot stack (HANDS-FREE)
Customers
China Resources
Mars
State Grid
Walmart
Coca-Cola
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Tsinghua University
Zhejiang University
Tongji University
Competitors
Aethon
Bossa Nova
Reckon
Simbe Robotics
Fabric
Takeoff
Badger Technologies
VenHub
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1.7M annual revenue (estimated ARR; public third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
2.9K
Jobs and careers at Taobotics
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