Collaborative Robot (Cobot) Cost 2026: $599 to $45,600
How much does a collaborative robot cost? As of August 2026, the cobots in our index span $599 for an educational desktop arm to roughly $45,600 for a European industrial cobot with an 18 kg payload — a 76x spread inside a category that markets itself as one thing. “Cobot” is a design philosophy, not a price bracket: force-limited joints and no safety cage are the common thread, and past that the category runs from a hobbyist’s first robot arm to a factory line component that costs as much as a car.
Almost none of these carry a real list price. Of the nine cobots we track, only two — Elephant Robotics’ myCobot and UFACTORY’s xArm — publish a checkout-ready number on the manufacturer’s own store. Everything else is sold on quotation, through distributors, or both, which means the figures below are the honest range our sourcing turned up, not a menu.
The short answer: every cobot we track
| Model | Maker | Payload | Guide price (USD) | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| myCobot 280 | Elephant Robotics | 0.25 kg | $599–849 | Live store price |
| xArm 6 | UFACTORY | 5 kg | $9,500–10,499 | Live store price |
| Dobot CR5 / CR5A | Dobot Robotics | 5 kg | $10,000–24,320 | Reseller listings |
| JAKA Zu 7 | JAKA Robotics | 7 kg | $12,000–23,400 (est.) | Dealer estimates |
| ABB GoFa CRB 15000 | ABB Robotics | 5 kg | $30,000–38,000 (est.) | Quote-only, guide prices |
| Yaskawa Motoman HC10DTP | Yaskawa | 10 kg | $25,000–50,000 (est.) | Quote-only, guide prices |
| Universal Robots UR5e | Universal Robots | 5 kg | $32,000–48,000 | Distributor quotes |
| NEURA LARA 5 | Neura Robotics | 5 kg | ~$21,800 (est.) | EU distributor listing |
| NEURA MAiRA S | Neura Robotics | 18 kg | ~$43,300 (est.) | EU distributor listing |
All figures as of August 2026. Where a range comes from a distributor or dealer rather than the manufacturer, we’ve marked it an estimate — treat it as an anchor for negotiation, not a quote you can hold anyone to.
The two that actually have a price
myCobot 280 and xArm 6 are the outliers here, and it’s worth understanding why. Both are sold directly by their makers, in checkout carts, to individual buyers — no reseller, no sales call, no minimum order. Elephant Robotics prices the 280 by controller: $599 for the Arduino variant up through $849 for the Jetson Nano version, all live prices on the company’s own store. UFACTORY’s xArm 6 runs $9,500 on the US store (marked down from $11,000), with resellers listing it up to $10,499.
Neither is a factory tool. The myCobot’s 250 g payload and 280 mm working radius put it squarely in “desk-sized teaching arm” territory — it shows up in our research robot cost guide for exactly that reason. The xArm 6 is more capable at 5 kg payload and 700 mm reach, closer to a real industrial cobot, but UFACTORY still sells it like a consumer electronics product: a fixed price, a cart, and same-week shipping. That’s the exception in this list, not the rule.
Why the other seven are quote-only
Once payload crosses into genuine factory territory — 5 kg and up, with a controller and teach pendant built for a production line rather than a classroom — pricing disappears behind a distributor network. ABB, Yaskawa and Universal Robots all publish zero list prices; what circulates are distributor guide prices and the occasional concrete listing, like the $37,245 UR5e quote in our sourcing. Dobot and JAKA are nominally more open — Dobot’s channel produces real reseller listings — but even there, prices diverge by thousands of dollars depending which reseller you ask, because the manufacturer isn’t the one setting the number.
NEURA Robotics’ two cobot lines add a wrinkle specific to the European market: the euro-denominated prices we cite (EUR 18,900 for the LARA 5, EUR 37,500 for the MAiRA S, both excluding VAT) come from a German distributor page that, as of this writing, shows the products as unavailable to order. That makes the number a published historical anchor rather than a live offer — useful for understanding where NEURA positions its cobots, useless as something you can act on today.
The pattern across all seven: manufacturers treat cobots above roughly $20,000 as an enterprise sale, not a retail one. The published number, when one exists at all, comes from someone downstream of the factory — a distributor, an integrator, a regional reseller — pricing in their own margin and local market conditions on top of whatever the manufacturer actually charges them.
What the payload class buys you
Sorting by payload instead of price tells a cleaner story than sorting by list price alone, because payload is the one spec nobody disputes:
- Sub-1 kg (myCobot 280): $599–849. Teaching and light pick-and-place only — 250 g payload rules out anything that resembles a factory task.
- 5 kg class (xArm 6, CR5, GoFa CRB 15000, UR5e, LARA 5): roughly $9,500–48,000 for the same payload rating. This is where the “cobot tax” is most visible — five robots rated for the same load, and a five-to-one price spread between the cheapest and the most expensive guide price. Brand, market channel and where the manufacturer chooses to compete all matter more than the spec sheet.
- 7–10 kg class (Zu 7, HC10DTP): $12,000–50,000, IP-rated variants like the HC10DTP command a premium for handling damp or splash-prone production environments.
- 18 kg (MAiRA S): ~$43,300. The heaviest cobot we track, and priced accordingly — this is a robot built to compete with light industrial arms, not classroom kits.
If a 5 kg cobot is all you need, the honest takeaway is that payload alone won’t tell you which one to buy — reach, repeatability, IP rating and the vendor’s own service network will cost or save you more than the sticker ever will.
The rule that carries over from full industrial arms
As with the larger machines in our industrial robot arm cost guide, the arm price is never the deployed price. A cobot’s whole selling point — no fencing, no safety scanner, minimal integration — narrows that gap compared with a caged industrial arm, but it doesn’t close it. A gripper, a stand, cabling and the hours to program and validate a cell still sit on top of every number in the table above. Budget for the arm, then budget again for everything that turns the arm into a working cell.
Sources
Primary sources referenced in this article. Prices in the tables come from the live index and carry their own as-of dates.
- Elephant Robotics: myCobot 280 — official store page (shop.elephantrobotics.com)
- UFACTORY: xArm 6 — official store page (ufactory.us)
- Dobot Robotics: CR5 — official product page (jp.dobot-robots.com)
- JAKA Robotics: JAKA Zu 7 — official product page (jaka.com)
- Universal Robots: UR5e — official product page (universal-robots.com)
- ABB Robotics: GoFa CRB 15000 — official product page (one.robotics.abb.com)
- Yaskawa: Motoman HC10DTP — official product page (motoman.com)
- Neura Robotics: LARA — official product page (neura-robotics.com)
- Neura Robotics: MAiRA — official product page (neura-robotics.com)
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