01 · Cotton candy
Cotton candy vending machine
Mall kiosks and FEC entrances with 1–2 m² of floor and people already standing still. Sugar is the cheapest input we sell.
CT-103 · CT-301 · CT-206 · CT-606 · CT-608
Red Rabbit Intelligent · Factory Direct · Guangzhou, China
Commercial robotic vending machines, built at the source.
From mechanical engineering and proprietary software to cashless payment integration — designed, assembled and tested under one factory roof.
Direct manufacturer pricing, turnkey customization, and full lifecycle support from day one.
The company at a glance
- 13
- models
- eight families, nothing held back
- 8
- families
- cotton candy, ice cream, snowflake ice, slush, phone case, puzzle, engraving, nail
- 10,000 m²+
- factory floor
- design, assembly, software integration and testing under one roof in Panyu
- 50,000+
- machines delivered
- built and shipped since the first unit
- 130+
- countries
- shipped, installed, running
- 8
- QC gates
- per unit, incoming material to final run
The fleet
Eight families. Thirteen models. One floor.
Thirteen models across eight families — designed, assembled and tested on the same floor in Panyu. One unit minimum, Ex Works Guangzhou; landed pricing comes with the written quote.
02 · Ice cream
Ice cream machine
Dessert rows and buffet exits, where the freezer is full and a second cabinet will not fit.
CT-XG210 · CT-XG260
03 · Snowflake ice
Snowflake ice machine
Airports, resorts and hotel buffets, where a cup has to look like a dessert rather than a drink and the customer does not mind waiting ninety seconds for it.
CT-BS312
04 · Slush
Slush machine
Cinemas, parks and school gates, where the cup is bought by someone already walking and carried away in one hand.
CT-XN410
05 · Phone case printing
Phone case printing machine
Cinema escalators and phone-shop corridors. Teenagers with twenty minutes to kill and a birthday coming.
CT-SJK360 · 448 cases · 56 SKUs
06 · Photo puzzle
Photo puzzle machine
Zoos, aquariums and gift-shop exits, where the visitor wants proof they were there and will pay to take it home framed.
CT-PTJ370
07 · Laser engraving
Laser engraving machine
Airport concourses, museums and wedding venues, where a photograph is worth more set inside glass than printed on paper.
CT-DK323
08 · Nail art
Nail art printing machine
FECs and teen retail. The group that has run out of tokens but not money.
CT-MJ330 · 30 sets at once
Eight families, eight different businesses. Best for is what we would tell you on the phone.
All thirteen models, side by sideThe maths
Cotton candy profit calculator: run the numbers before you commit.
Three of the numbers below are yours to move — serves a day, price a serve, days a month. Everything recalculates on the published EXW price of the CT-206 at US$4,700, with no rounding in the factory's favour.
Machine
CT-206
US$4,700 EXW
Fixed to the CT-206 in this panel. The other four cotton candy models are in the full calculator.
Start from a site type
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EXW machine price, 30 trading days a month. Excludes freight, duties, venue rent and card processing fees.
RECOMPUTE
Recompute any preset: monthly revenue, minus serves × days × consumable per serve, gives the gross; 4,700 divided by that gives the months.
Read the presets as a range, not a forecast. A quiet venue is a hotel lobby, a clinic, an arcade with nothing moving after nine. A typical mall does twenty a day at $5.00 without pushing. Prime FEC is thirty, and weekends do the lifting.
Even the quiet preset returns the CT-206 inside five months, then keeps going on thirty cents of sugar and a paper stick.
Consumables are the other half of the maths, and on a cotton candy machine they are short: sugar and a food-grade paper stick, nothing else. A kilogram of sugar spins 30 to 35 cones, which puts sugar and stick at about thirty cents a cone. Over a year of trading, that makes the machine price the smaller number.
Why us
Four reasons to buy from the company that builds it.
Everything below can be checked before you commit — on a video call, in the workshop, on the paperwork.
Full In-House Manufacturing, Single Accountability
Mechanical design, PCB engineering, software architecture, and final 48-hour burn-in tests all happen under our own factory roof. If you ever have a technical question or issue, you deal directly with the engineers who built the machine — no third-party subcontractors, zero runaround.
Proprietary Robotic Systems, Not Assembled Kits
Robotic arms, precision dispensing modules, and custom heating systems are engineered and calibrated as unified, high-durability mechanisms. Backed by 130+ patents and IP certificates, and field-tested in high-volume commercial venues worldwide.
Transparent Factory Pricing, Zero Hidden Markups
Real manufacturer pricing, consumable costs calculated down to the cent, and verified lead times from 3–15 days. We provide complete unit-economics calculators so you can verify daily operating costs, margins, and payback periods before signing.
Licensed Direct Exporter, Smooth Customs Clearance
We hold complete in-house international export licenses and customs qualifications. Whether you need EXW, FOB, CIF, or door-to-door DDP with import duty prepaid, your order is handled directly by our own export logistics team, with no third-party markup.
Terms of sale
EXW
Ex Works (Factory Floor) Pure manufacturer equipment cost. Pick up directly at our Guangzhou factory loading dock. Ideal for buyers with their own freight forwarders.
FOB
Free On Board Delivered and customs-cleared onto the cargo vessel at Guangzhou / Shenzhen port. We handle domestic transport, port handling, and export documentation.
CIF
Cost, Insurance & Freight Main ocean freight and marine cargo insurance included up to your designated destination sea port. You only manage local port arrival and clearance.
DDP
Delivered Duty Paid (Turnkey) True door-to-door delivery. Ocean freight, import customs clearance, tariffs, and inland trucking all included directly to your venue or warehouse address.
All equipment prices on this page are quoted EXW Guangzhou. Freight, insurance, import duties and payment charges vary by country, port and bank — they are confirmed in the written quotation, not estimated on a web page.
Inside the workshop · Guangzhou headquarters
Where robotic vending is engineered: take a live factory tour.
Red Rabbit operates its dedicated R&D center, showroom and full-cycle manufacturing workshop at Dongsheng Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou — the global hub for commercial entertainment and automation hardware. No trading intermediaries or shell companies: the team you speak with builds, inspects and ships your machines from this single facility.
From our first flagship cotton candy robotics to automated ice cream kiosks, phone case printers and laser engraving machines — every product line shares our self-developed core controller architecture. We build durable, unattended robotic systems engineered specifically for high-frequency, continuous commercial operations.
Every machine undergoes an 8-stage pre-shipment quality inspection, including electrical load tests, structural alignment and continuous operational burn-in before crating. Backed by 130+ automation patents and technical certifications, our core dispensing and mechanical modules are precision-calibrated in-house for long-term reliability.
Verify everything before you commit. We do not send static brochures. Book a live one-on-one video call with our export sales specialist on the workshop floor: walk the assembly line in real time, inspect internal wiring, review the batch on test, and watch your machine run before it ships.
Book a live video factory tour- 8quality inspection gates
- 130+patents & technical certifications
- 3–15days, standard dispatch time
- 48hours continuous burn-in before crating
Global compliance & accreditations
Certified for worldwide commercial deployment. Genuine test reports and compliance certificates, ready for customs clearance and shopping-mall leasing audits — including CE, UKCA, RoHS, FCC, IC, SAA and food-grade material contact reports. Each is issued for the markets where it applies.
Where it earns
Where a cotton candy vending machine actually earns.
Where one of these will earn is a shorter list than most sellers admit. Six venue types carry almost everything we ship:
- Mall atriums and the floor at the foot of an escalator
- FECs and family entertainment centres, especially ones selling birthday parties
- Cinema waiting areas, before the doors open
- Zoos, aquariums and scenic parks
- Schools, colleges and campus canteens
- Airports and rail stations, if you hold the concession permit
Where it does not work
Transit corridors and office lobbies. People there are late for something. They are not carrying a five-dollar cone and they will not stand still for two minutes. Rent at those pitches is usually higher, which makes the mistake expensive as well as wrong.
The smallest machine in the range takes 0.45 CBM, measures 170 × 49 × 58 cm and draws 500 to 2,000 W. It plugs into an ordinary single-phase socket. No three-phase supply, no builder, no reinforced floor.
Reviews
What operators say once the machine is running.
Six operators, six machines, six markets. Names are shortened at the operator's request; the figures are theirs, not ours.
5.0
6 operators · 6 markets
Paid back in 5 weeks
★★★★★
We placed two CT-608 units near the cinema escalators in Orlando. Kids stop to watch the robotic arm spin the flower shapes, which does all the selling for us. Both machines paid for themselves in five weeks, and restocking sugar takes maybe 15 minutes every three days.
High margin · zero staff
★★★★★
The UV print quality on the CT-SJK360 surprised us — colours come out crisp and scratch-resistant in under two minutes. Having 448 case slots means we rarely run out of popular iPhone and Samsung models on weekends. Customising the UI into German was done before shipment.
Steady daily volume
★★★★★
What stood out first was the DDP shipping and customs handling — the CT-XG260 arrived at our Riyadh location ready to plug in. Even in peak summer heat, the compressor keeps up with back-to-back orders without slowing down. Clean, predictable daily cash flow.
Premium gifting ticket
★★★★★
Visitors at our gift shop exit love turning their family photos into 3D crystal blocks on the spot. Because it sells at a £25–£35 ticket price, you don't need huge foot traffic to make strong margins. Red Rabbit's engineers walked us through calibration on a video call in 20 minutes.
Reliable unattended run
★★★★★
We tested one CT-PTJ370 unit first before ordering three more for our seasonal parks. Integration with our local Nayax contactless reader worked right out of the box. In six months of daily operation, we've had zero mechanical downtime.
Great impulse buy
★★★★★
Teenagers and mall shoppers treat the CT-MJ330 like an attraction itself. The printing alignment is spot-on and the whole session takes less than a minute per hand. Having direct WhatsApp access to the Guangzhou factory technicians gives us real peace of mind.
We ship to 130+ countries. These six are the accounts with figures we can stand behind; the rest are phone calls, and a phone call is not evidence.
How it goes
Four steps from enquiry to sea freight.
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Send the city and the venue type.
Not a specification, not a budget. A mall in Kuala Lumpur and a zoo in Jeddah are two different recommendations, and a budget first usually means we spend a week quoting the wrong machine.
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One working day later, a shortlist.
Two or three models, the EXW price of each, an estimated freight figure to your port, and a payback range built on your local retail price.
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If the numbers hold, we book the production slot.
Production runs 3 to 15 days from confirmation; the exact date is agreed against your model and quantity.
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EXW Guangzhou.
Your forwarder collects from our loading dock and we hand over the documents.
Minimum order is one machine. There is no dealer tier to climb and no wholesale gate to clear before we quote you a number.
Before you buy
The questions buyers ask before they order.
Clear, transparent answers, written out in full — no generic "contact us for details" runarounds. If your scenario is not covered here, talk to our team directly.
How much do your robotic vending machines cost?
Pricing varies with the automation category — automated cotton candy, soft-serve ice cream, smartphone case printing or laser engraving kiosks — and with custom specifications. We quote factory-direct, with no trading markup. Send us your target model and city, and we return an itemised landed quote within 24 hours: EXW unit price, sea or air freight, crating, and localised payment hardware.
What is the difference between standard vending machines and robotic kiosks?
Traditional vending dispenses pre-packaged items from a shelf. Our robotic systems manufacture on demand, in front of the customer: an arm spins fresh cotton candy shapes, extrudes soft-serve with toppings, or UV-prints a phone case live. That visible making is what pulls foot traffic, supports premium retail pricing of US$5–15 a serve, and keeps the unit trading 24/7 without an attendant.
What is the typical payback period and operating margin?
In high-traffic shopping centres, theme parks and tourist venues, operators typically recover the machine within 2 to 5 months. Consumables are a small share of the retail price — often 5–10% — so gross margins run above 85–90%. We can build a full unit-economics model around your estimated foot traffic and daily sales.
What locations work best, and what does the site need?
Indoor shopping malls, theme parks, family entertainment centres (FECs), cinemas, tourist attractions and transport hubs perform best. Site requirements are minimal: roughly 1–2 square metres of floor space and a standard outlet at 110V or 220–240V. Most models need no water inlet — they carry built-in food-grade fresh and waste water tanks.
Do these machines need staff to operate?
No on-site attendant is needed. Ordering, payment, dispensing and cup or stick delivery are self-service. Your only tasks are restocking (sugar, syrup, blanks) and routine cleaning — typically 15 to 30 minutes every 2–4 days, depending on volume. Inventory and sales are visible in the cloud dashboard in real time.
What is the minimum order, and can I mix models in one container?
Our MOQ is one unit — single-unit sample testing is normal for new operators. For fleet orders you can mix categories (ice cream, cotton candy, printers) in a single 20ft or 40ft container, which is where the real freight saving is.
How can I verify that you are a manufacturer, not a trading intermediary?
Check it directly. Book a live one-on-one video call with our export team on the Panyu factory floor: the assembly line, the R&D test room and the crates waiting for other customers are all on camera. Our business licence, registered factory address, export declarations and robotics patents are all held under our own corporate entity.
Can I customise the machine wrap and the touchscreen software?
Yes — OEM/ODM work is done in-house before packing. We apply your vinyl graphics, backlit acrylic logos and colour palette, and the touchscreen UI, product catalogue and audio prompts can be localised into your language (English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic and others).
What safety certificates and export documents come with the machines?
Certification is issued per model and per market rather than as one global badge: CE and UKCA for Europe, FCC and IC for North America, RoHS, and food-grade material contact reports where they apply. The export pack is complete — bill of lading, commercial invoice, packing list and certificate of origin — so clearance at destination does not stall.
What does the 12-month warranty cover, and how are parts handled?
A one-year hardware warranty covers the core functional components: robotic arms, heating blocks, motors, mainboards, power modules and touchscreens. If a part fails, replacements ship by international express (DHL / FedEx) within 24–48 hours, with step-by-step video guidance from our technical team.
Which shipping terms do you support, and is DDP available?
EXW, FOB, CIF and full DDP by sea or air. Under DDP our logistics partners handle ocean freight, destination clearance, import duties and local liftgate trucking to your storefront or warehouse — duties prepaid, no surprise customs invoice on arrival.
Next step
Pick a model.
Name your city.
We'll run the numbers.
选一台机器，
报一个城市，
账我们来算。
One working day. You get the EXW price for your chosen model, landed freight to your door or port, and a payback estimate at local retail prices. No brochures, no sales calls.