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Robotic palletizer from China

A robotic palletizer is sold on payload and a cycles per hour figure, but your throughput is cycles times cases per pick, measured with your heaviest case, your pattern and the slowest corner of the stack, and a headline cycle rate taken empty says nothing about that.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 1 October 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Robot type: articulated, column or gantry

A four-axis articulated palletizing robot, a lower-cost column machine or a low-level gantry. They differ in reach, speed, footprint and how many pallet stations one robot can serve.

Payload including the gripper

Listings named payloads of 150 and 180 kg. The gripper, vacuum or clamp, eats part of that. Ask what remains for product at full reach, and what a two-case pick weighs.

Cycle rate on your case

Ask for cycles per hour with your heaviest case at the top corner of a full pallet, not an empty-arm test. Multiply by cases per pick to get your rate.

Pallet stations and lines served

One robot can build two pallets from two lines, or one pallet while a person swaps the other. Pallet and slip sheet dispensers are often separate lines on the quote.

Pattern software

How new patterns and new cases are added: on the teach pendant by an engineer, or in a pattern editor by your staff. Ask for a demonstration of adding one.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Every case or bag: size, weight, and whether it is rigid, soft or open.
Pallet size and the stacking pattern and height your customers accept.
Cases per minute from each line, including peaks.
How full pallets leave: forklift, pallet conveyor or wrapper.
The floor space, including the fenced area and the forklift access.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Build full pallets of your heaviest case in your real pattern for a timed hour.	Cases per hour meet the quote, and every layer is square with no overhang beyond your limit.
Swap a full pallet while the robot builds on the other station.	The robot keeps working, and the station being serviced is protected by a safety-rated function.
Add a new case size and pattern with your own staff watching.	They can repeat it from the manual without the supplier.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity for the complete cell, naming 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, with 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU.
Risk assessment and a statement of which parts of EN 415-4 and EN ISO 10218 the cell follows, with the guard and light curtain layout.
Pattern editor manual and the backup of the robot program.

The one people forget. The program backup. Without it, a failed controller means rebuilding every pattern from scratch, and the supplier's engineer is in another time zone.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You palletise one product at a high, steady rate.

A conventional layer palletizer, which builds whole layers faster than an arm picks.

You build a few pallets per shift from mixed items.

A collaborative arm or a lift table with a person, since a full cell will not pay back.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 12Twelve robot palletizer listings on one marketplace, checked October 2026, asked from US$8,500 to US$70,000 a piece or set, for cartons and bags, with 150 and 180 kg payloads named in two. Asking prices, not landed cost.
ArithmeticWorked example: at 10 cycles a minute, 10 x 60 = 600 cycles an hour. One case per pick gives 600 cases an hour; two cases per pick gives 1,200.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Robotic depalletizer. Read it if you also unload incoming pallets, where vision decides the result.
Gantry robot. Read it if low ceiling height or several stations favour a gantry over an arm.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Material handling page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European robotic palletizer: is the robot the difference?+

Often the robot is a known brand either way. The difference is the gripper, the safety design and the pattern software. Compare those.

What goes on a robotic palletizer inspection checklist?+

A timed hour with your heaviest case, pallet squareness, the pallet swap under safety, pattern editing by your staff, and the program backup.

What CE documents does a palletizing cell need?+

A Declaration of Conformity for the whole cell with its risk assessment. The robot alone arrives with a declaration of incorporation.

Who is the EU importer?+

The company placing the cell on the EU market, often the buyer. It checks the declaration and adds its name and address.

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