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pymycobot

  • Software
  • Robot arms and industry
  • Driver or SDK

A Python API for serial and socket communication with Elephant Robotics robots, used to control them. It supports the myCobot, MechArm, myPalletizer, ultraArm and Pro450 models.

Made by Elephant Robotics, China (checked on github.com/elephantrobotics (opens in a new tab)).

Source on GitHub: github.com/elephantrobotics/pymycobot (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 44d7fb1 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
MIT (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 44d7fb1 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Provides classes for controlling MyCobot 280, MyCobot 320, MechArm 270, MyPalletizer 260, ultraArm P340 and MyCobot Pro450 robots.
  • Offers both serial and socket connection variants for several of the supported models.
  • Installable with pip, or from source with pip install or setup.py.
  • Includes a demo directory with test case files.
  • Has API documentation per robot model, in Chinese and English.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 44d7fb1.

Getting started

Difficulty
Beginner
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
Robot firmware: the Atom firmware must be flashed into the top Atom and the Transponder firmware into the base Basic.

Maintenance

Status
Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
Newest commit
4 Feb 2026 on main
Latest release
v4.0.7 (5 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.