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DFRobot

Privately Held
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dfrobot.com
Consumer Electronics56 employeesFounded 2008🇨🇳 China

Founded in 2008, DFRobot is a robotics and open source hardware provider, catering to hardware engineers, DIY enthusiasts and interactive designers. Our ever-growing product catalog boasts over 900 components and widgets from sensors, robotic platform, communication modules to 3D printers. With our mission of driving the future rooted in our corporate culture, our research and development team have constantly innovated with the latest technology and collaborated with various tech giants such as Intel, Microsoft and Texas Instruments to maximize our impact. Besides, we strive to promote makers' cultures by providing tools, electronics and training for schools, hacker spaces and hackathon events. In 2012, we opened the second hackerspace Mushroom Cloud in Shanghai’s high-tech park and started to co-organize Maker Carnival to provide public greater access to maker culture. What We Do By developing more than 900 products and cultivating an active online community with a variety of hands-on resources, we continue to inspire thousands of DIY hobbyists, educators and researchers in every aspect of daily life and help members of all areas learn, share and make awesome things. Our Mission DFRobot aims to provide our customers with amazing, long-lasting experience in robotics and hardware DIY that can be achieved by people even without any background. We are constantly working to create innovative, user-friendly products that become the building blocks in all kinds of projects and prototypes. Our Vision Our vision is to bring back the joy of tinkering to daily life with innovative, modern technology products and a supportive community. Learning will be enhanced with materials that will allow our users to proceed at their own rate according to their skills and interests. We strive to boost STEM education and building a DIY community to embrace the maker culture to Drive a better Future.

Founded
2008
Employees
56
Industry
Consumer Electronics
Company type
Privately Held
Headquarters
🇨🇳Shanghai, Shanghai
Specialties
EducationInformation Technology & ServicesConsumer ElectronicsElectronics Manufacturing
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Active markets
Japan
1
New markets
Japan
Medium
Confidence
mostly early signals
-100%
Momentum
vs prior period
11 / 100
Expansion Score
Early
Stages1Exploring
1 signal · Last 90 days

Global expansion

Live
Japan
Stages
ExploringInvestingLandingOperating

Activity pulse

1 signal in the last 90 days.

Last 90 days
Hiring
0
No activity
Marketing & PR
0
No activity
Product & Tech
0
No activity
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Market entry timeline

The order this company entered each market — oldest to newest

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🇯🇵Japan1st market entered · 2026Advancing
Exploring
1 signalExploring stage
Current stageExploringTesting the waters
Confidence44%Medium
Tracking since2026first signal

Recent signals

Partnership🇯🇵 Japan2mo ago

DFRobot Showcases AI Projects at Tokyo Event

Product launch🇺🇸 United States8mo ago

DFRobot Showcases AI and IoT Solutions at Maker Faire

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Founded in 2008, DFRobot is a robotics and open source hardware provider, catering to hardware engineers, DIY enthusiasts and interactive designers. Our ever-growing product catalog boasts over 900 components and widgets from sensors, robotic platform, communication modules to 3D printers. With our mission of driving the future rooted in our corporate culture, our research and development team have constantly innovated with the latest technology and collaborated with various tech giants such as Intel, Microsoft and Texas Instruments to maximize our impact. Besides, we strive to promote makers' cultures by providing tools, electronics and training for schools, hacker spaces and hackathon events. In 2012, we opened the second hackerspace Mushroom Cloud in Shanghai’s high-tech park and started to co-organize Maker Carnival to provide public greater access to maker culture. What We Do By developing more than 900 products and cultivating an active online community with a variety of hands-on resources, we continue to inspire thousands of DIY hobbyists, educators and researchers in every aspect of daily life and help members of all areas learn, share and make awesome things. Our Mission DFRobot aims to provide our customers with amazing, long-lasting experience in robotics and hardware DIY that can be achieved by people even without any background. We are constantly working to create innovative, user-friendly products that become the building blocks in all kinds of projects and prototypes. Our Vision Our vision is to bring back the joy of tinkering to daily life with innovative, modern technology products and a supportive community. Learning will be enhanced with materials that will allow our users to proceed at their own rate according to their skills and interests. We strive to boost STEM education and building a DIY community to embrace the maker culture to Drive a better Future.

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