Hiwonder

Shenzhen Hiwonder Technology Co., Ltd. (幻尔科技) is a privately held maker of educational robot kits registered in Shenzhen on 9 January 2015, with its office in the COFCO Business Park in Bao'an district and subsidiaries in Hong Kong and Singapore. Company registry data list Zhang Chenyang as legal representative and registered capital of CNY 5.56 million, which puts it in the small-company bracket rather than among the funded humanoid startups. It sells directly through its own web shop and through resellers such as Alibaba, Tindie and Robocraze.

The product range is built around serial bus servos and runs from robotic arms and ROS cars to robot dogs and small humanoids. The humanoid line is the TonyPi family: TonyPi and TonyPi Pro are small servo-driven bipeds built on a Raspberry Pi 4B or 5 with a camera and IMU, programmed in Blockly, Scratch, Python or C, and sold as classroom and maker kits. TonyPi Pro adds voice interaction and large-model chat features.

Hiwonder's importance to the humanoid field is as a volume educational supplier, not as a developer of working robots. A reseller profile claims use in more than 2,000 schools across over 80 countries and over 300,000 teachers and students; the company's Chinese profile claims more than 50 patents. Neither headcount nor revenue is published.