Education and research robots are built to be programmed, opened up and broken in a lab. They range from small kits that teach coding to students, such as Petoi Bittle or Hiwonder TonyPi, to ROS platforms used in university courses like TurtleBot 4 or AgileX LIMO, and research arms such as Franka Research 3.
When you choose, look at software first: ROS 2 support, available SDKs, simulation models and the size of the community. Then check what the course needs physically: wheels or legs, an arm, sensors like LiDAR and depth cameras, and how easy spare parts are to get.
Our catalog lists 8 education platforms from 8 brands. 2 have a published price, from $339 to $946. Several humanoids and robot dogs in other categories also have EDU versions for universities.
| Model | Type | Price | Payload | Runtime | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petoi Bittle X | Educational quadruped robot dog | $339 | no data | no data | On sale |
| Hiwonder TonyPi | Educational humanoid kit | $946 | no data | 1 h | On sale |
| UBTECH Alpha Mini | Educational humanoid | Price on request | no data | no data | On sale |
| Clearpath TurtleBot 4 | Educational mobile robot (ROS 2) | Price on request | 9 kg | 2.5 h | On sale |
| ROBOTIS OP3 | Research humanoid platform | Price on request | no data | no data | On sale |
| AgileX LIMO | Educational mobile robot (ROS) | Price on request | 4 kg | 0.7 h | On sale |
| Elephant Robotics myCobot 280 | Desktop collaborative robot arm | Price on request | 0.25 kg | no data | On sale |
| Franka Robotics Franka Research 3 | Research robot arm | Price on request | 3 kg | no data | On sale |
Wheeled ROS 2 platforms such as TurtleBot 4 or AgileX LIMO are the common choice: they are affordable, well documented and have ready simulation models.
Yes. For example Unitree sells EDU versions of Go2 and G1 with an open SDK and more compute. Look for EDU in the model notes in the catalog.