Elephant Robotics myCobot

A small, inexpensive 6-axis desktop collaborative arm from Elephant Robotics, easy to pick up.

myCobot is the desktop 6-axis collaborative arm series from Shenzhen-based Elephant Robotics; the most common version, the myCobot 280, weighs about 850 g, has a 280 mm working radius, a 250 g payload, and repeatability of about ±0.5 mm, available with different main-controller options, including M5Stack, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Jetson. It supports ROS, meaning Robot Operating System, Python, C++, and graphical programming, and is commonly used to learn forward and inverse kinematics, run ROS/MoveIt experiments, and do simple vision-guided grasping. Compared with the Dobot Magician, it has two extra axes, giving the end effector more orientation flexibility, but its payload and precision are both low, so it is really only suited to teaching, demos, and prototyping.

ExampleUsing Python to drive a myCobot 280 through a series of preset waypoints, paired with a gripper to move small blocks on a table to a target position.

Also called

myCobot, myCobot 280

Related

Desktop Robot Arm · 6-Axis Robot Arm · Collaborative Robot · Dobot Magician · SO-100 / SO-101 Arm (LeRobot) · Robot Operating System

Sources

myCobot 280 - Elephant Robotics Shop

As of

2026-09