Elephant Robotics Price Guide 2026: myCobot, myAGV and Mercury

Elephant Robotics is one of the few robot-arm makers that publishes every price. Its Americas store lists 36 SKUs with live add-to-cart pricing, from a $31 phone holder to a $2,978 arm-and-gripper bundle — no quote form, no "contact sales." For a market where most cobot vendors hide the number, that alone makes it worth a close look.

The range is aimed at education, research and light desktop automation rather than production. Payloads run from 250 g to 2 kg. Below is the whole catalog as priced on 29 July 2026.

Desktop arms — $299 to $2,379

The 280 family is one arm sold four ways — the difference is the brain, not the mechanics. Arduino is the cheapest and least capable; M5Stack adds the built-in screen; Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano add a real Linux host, with Jetson the one to pick if you intend to run vision models on the arm itself. The $310 spread between the Arduino and the Jetson build is essentially the price of the compute.

The jump from the 280 to the 320 is the real step: 250 g to 1 kg payload, and roughly 3.5x the price.

Mobile bases and compound kits — $949 to $2,006

This is the cheapest legitimate mobile-manipulator teaching platform we have found with published pricing — a navigating chassis with a 6-DOF arm on top for under $1,600. If your goal is a lab exercise in SLAM plus pick-and-place rather than moving real product, it is hard to beat.

Grippers and accessories — where the money quietly goes

Accessories are priced against the arm they bolt to, and the gap is large:

A fully kitted 280 — arm, gripper, camera flange, base — lands around $1,000. A fully kitted 320 with the force-controlled F100 gripper and a camera flange is closer to $3,200. Budget the accessories at the start; on the 320 line they are a third of the total.

Two add-ons sit outside the pattern: the AI Kit at $499 (vision and recognition hardware, the standard classroom add-on) and the myController S570 portable exoskeleton controller at $1,300, for teleoperation work.

The bundle math: most bundles don't discount

Elephant sells a lot of "arm + kit" bundles. We priced every one against buying the parts separately. The result is worth knowing before you click:

The pattern is clean: myAGV accessory bundles and two of the AI Kit bundles give a real 4–10% discount; every bundle involving the 320 arms or the myArm pair is exactly the sum of its parts. On those, the bundle buys you convenience and nothing else — so if you already own the arm, there is no penalty for adding the gripper later, and no reward for buying it up front.

What US buyers can't get from the US store

The Americas store carries 36 SKUs. Elephant's global store carries 87, and the difference includes the two most interesting products in the range:

• myCobot Pro 630 — the 2 kg-payload industrial-facing arm, listed on the global store at £5,376–£6,066
• Mercury wheeled humanoid series — Mercury A1 (7-DOF arm) £3,840, Mercury B1 (dual-arm semi-humanoid) £9,216, Mercury X1 (wheeled humanoid) £12,288

Note the currency. The global store quotes in pounds sterling, not dollars, so those figures are not directly comparable to the US prices above and will land differently after conversion, shipping and duty. We are quoting them as listed rather than converting, because a converted number would be our arithmetic and not the vendor's price. The Mercury product page also renders a nonsensical "sale" price against each variant, so treat the £ figures above — the regular prices — as the ones to plan around and confirm at checkout.

The practical point stands: if you want the Pro 630 or anything in the Mercury line in the US, you are buying cross-border from the global store, not from the Americas store.

Where this range fits

Elephant Robotics is not competing with collaborative robots that do production work — a 1 kg payload arm is a teaching and prototyping tool. Compare the $2,379 myCobot 320 Pi against the entry point of the industrial cobot market, where payload class drives price and a 3 kg arm starts around $37,000, and the two are clearly in different businesses.

Where it does compete is the university lab and the STEM classroom, against other educational robots and against building something on a hobby servo arm. There, the published-price-everything approach is the differentiator: you can plan a semester's budget to the dollar without a single sales call.

Sources

• Elephant Robotics Americas store — full catalog, 36 SKUs with USD add-to-cart pricing
• Elephant Robotics global store — 87 SKUs, priced in GBP
• Mercury Wheeled Humanoid Robot Series — A1 / B1 / X1 variants and listed prices
• myCobot 320 product line — 1 kg payload 6-axis arm

*Prices checked 29 July 2026 on the Elephant Robotics Americas store (USD) and global store (GBP). Store pricing changes; confirm at checkout.*