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Best humanoid robot for schools
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The answer
Z-Bot
$999 for an open-source developer robot from a company that publishes everything. It is small and it is early, and it is one of the only Western options at any price under $3,000.
- Buy it if
- Developers who want to hack on open hardware without importing anything.
- Skip it if
- You need a finished product.
In its favour
- $999 and open source
- United States based
- Full transparency on design
Against it
- Early-stage company
- Preorder queues
- Desk-scale capability
- Height
- not published
- Weight
- not published
- Joints
- not published
- Autonomy
- Partly teleoperated
- Availability
- preorder, preorder
$999Maker’s own store
59/100
Solid
Provisional, specs incomplete
Capability 10/30
Value 21/25
Buyability 19/20
Ecosystem 9/15
Proof 0/10
Computed from the data · how the score works
Runners up
The next best.
Hiwonder · China
Hiwonder TonyPi Pro
Schools, university intro courses and self-teachers who want vision and inverse kinematics on real hardware.
Commercial$789
Noetix Robotics · China
Noetix Bumi
Bumi is a 94 cm, 12 kg humanoid priced under CNY 10,000, positioned by Noetix as a consumer and education robot..
Commercial$1,400
The full ranking
Everything that qualifies.
01 Z-BotK-Scale Labs · US $999List price preorder 59 02 Hiwonder TonyPi ProHiwonder · CN $789List price in stock 56 03 Noetix BumiNoetix Robotics · CN · 94 cm $1,400Street price preorder 52 04 Robosen K1 ProRobosen Robotics · CN $299Street price in stock 50 05 Booster T1Booster Robotics · CN · 118 cm $29,800 to $50,925Street price in stock 49 06 Booster K1Booster Robotics · CN · 95 cm $5,999 to $12,500Street price in stock 43 07 Reachy MiniPollen Robotics · FR · 28 cm $299 to $449List price preorder 41 08 UBTech Alpha seriesUBTech Robotics · CN · 40 cm $499Street price in stock 41 09 Hiwonder TonybotHiwonder · CN $459Street price in stock 39 10 ROBOTIS MINIRobotis · KR · 27 cm $539Street price in stock 38 11 Kondo KHR-3HVKondo Kagaku · JP · 40 cm $1,500Street price in stock 27
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