Complete domestic supply chain
From reducers, servo motors and sensors through to final assembly, the whole bill of materials can be sourced in one place. That is why comparable machines here often land well below the price of a Western equivalent.
About
About OpenYao Robotics
An export business built on an existing international trading operation, applying the same sourcing discipline to a different supply chain.
OpenYao Robotics is the robotics vertical of HEYAO Lab. The wider business already moved specialty raw materials to international buyers for years — cosmetics, food and feed ingredients, pigments, peptides, fragrances — which means the export side, documentation and freight were solved problems before robotics ever came up.
Robotics is a different product but the same trade. The buyer still needs a qualified factory, the specification still has to be enforced, the documents still have to be right, and the shipment still has to clear customs. What changes is that the technical range is wide and the tolerance for a badly matched supplier is much lower.
What we actually do
We sit between an overseas buyer and a Chinese supply base of factories, university spin-outs and research institutes.
- Identify manufacturers capable of the specification you need, not the specification that is easiest to quote.
- Verify whether a supplier is a manufacturer or a trading company, and tell you which one it is.
- Enforce the specification through production, with inspection evidence rather than assurances.
- Prepare export documentation and the certificates your market actually requires.
- Coordinate freight and battery transport classification.
- Stay reachable after delivery for spares, repairs and the next order.
Where the robots come from
China has the most complete robotics supply chain in the world — reducers, servo motors, sensors, controllers and final assembly can all be sourced inside one industrial region. Alongside that sits a dense network of university research groups whose prototypes become commercial platforms. Being able to reach both is the reason this business exists.
Our position, stated plainly
We are a partner, not the manufacturer.
Every product on this site is developed and built by the organisation named on its page. Product names, brands and images belong to them and are shown for reference. We do not manufacture any of these machines; our role is sourcing, order management and export.
Talk to us
If the requirement is unusual, say so in the first message. Unusual requirements are where we add the most value, and where a mis-matched factory costs you the most time.
Why work with us
We are the layer between you and the factory
Core component localisation
Localisation of reducers, actuators and core sensors has passed the threshold where an integrator no longer needs a Japanese or European part to ship.
Research and production in one region
University spin-outs, research institutes and volume manufacturers sit within the same industrial belt, so a prototype from a lab and a production line from a factory can be handled by one partner.
Declared export experience
Equipment is already in service in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and North America, and warehouse robotics has cleared customs into Russia, the USA and India.