Pre-orderUnitree
R1
Entry-level full-body humanoid, sport & demo focused.
- Height (cm)
- 122 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 25 kg
- Degrees of freedom
- 26
- Payload (kg)
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USE CASE
For teaching, robustness and total cost beat performance. A classroom humanoid must survive weekly handling by students, ship with curriculum-ready examples, and fit a departmental budget that also covers spare parts.
For education, durability and repair cost matters: students drop robots — a cheap actuator swap beats a factory return. For education, teaching materials and examples matters: curriculum-ready demos decide how much teaching time the robot actually saves. For education, entry price and class sets matters: two affordable units often teach more than one flagship.
Teaching-oriented platforms start under €15k; mid-size platforms with more DoF and stronger SDKs sit in the €15–40k band.
Every model below is listed with its EU availability status — confirm distributor stock and lead time before committing to a date.
56 robots in this category
Pre-orderUnitree
Entry-level full-body humanoid, sport & demo focused.
Available via EU distributorUnitree
Popular mid-size research humanoid.
Pre-orderBooster Robotics
RoboCup-winning competition humanoid.
Pre-order (EU manufacturer)NEURA Robotics
Compact €19,999 cognitive humanoid for research and education.
Available via EU distributorNoetix Robotics (Songyan Dynamics)
The Noetix N2 is a 118 cm, 30 kg bipedal humanoid from Beijing-based Noetix Robotics, billed by the company as the first humanoid capable of
Enterprise sales — inquireAgiBot
The Lingxi X1 is AgiBot's 130 cm, 33 kg full-stack open-source humanoid, with 34 active DoF, modular PowerFlow joint motors and an OmniPicke
K-Scale Labs
K-Bot is a 1.4 m, 34 kg open-source bipedal humanoid from Palo Alto startup K-Scale Labs, sold to developers from $8,999 (early bird) with a
Enterprise sales — inquireRainbow Robotics
RB-Y1 is Rainbow Robotics' dual-arm mobile manipulator: a humanoid-style upper body with two 7-DOF arms on a high-speed wheeled base with a
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CASBOT 02 is a 163 cm, 50 kg bipedal humanoid from Lingbao CASBOT (Beijing) with 275 TOPS compute, built for guidance, reception, education
Enterprise sales — inquireMagicLab
MagicBot Z1 is MagicLab's compact 137 cm, 40 kg high-dynamics bipedal humanoid (24 DoF standard, up to 50 on the dev edition) for research,
Enterprise sales — inquireNoetix Robotics (Songyan Dynamics)
The Noetix Hobbs W1 (NTX-W1) is a 170 cm, 75 kg wheeled bionic service robot combining a 32-DoF platinum-silicone bionic head with dual 5-Do
Enterprise sales — inquireNoetix Robotics (Songyan Dynamics)
The Noetix E1 'Geek Vanguard' is a 136 cm, 40 kg bipedal humanoid positioned as a cost-effective embodied-intelligence platform with 23-28 D
Enterprise sales — inquireAgiBot
AgiBot Lingxi X2 Ultra is a 1.31 m, 39 kg interactive bipedal humanoid (30 DoF, 3 kg max payload, ~2 h swappable battery) for exhibition gui
Enterprise sales — inquireUnitree
Unitree R1-D is a dual-arm humanoid torso platform (fixed or wheeled mobile base) from $4,290, with 5/7-DoF arms, 2-4 kg arm payload, binocu
Enterprise sales — inquireBooster Robotics
Booster T2 is a 1.4 m, 31-DoF bipedal embodied-AI development platform with NVIDIA Thor T5000 compute, 10 kg dual-arm payload and an open de
Enterprise sales — inquireROBOTIS
ROBOTIS AI Sapiens K0 is a 1.3 m, 34 kg fully open-source humanoid research platform (23 DOF, Dynamixel-Q QDD actuators, ROS 2) for Physical
Pre-orderEngineAI
Entry-level open-source research biped, ≈€5,000.
Available (EU manufacturer)Wheeled basePollen Robotics
Open-source bimanual manipulator on an omnidirectional mobile base (not a biped).
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OpenLoong (National Humanoid Innovation Center)
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Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
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Directory listing — specs unverifiedCompact platforms under €15k — such as the Unitree R1 or EngineAI PM01 — keep risk low while offering real SDKs. If budget allows only one unit, choose the one with the best documentation, not the most DoF.
Beyond the sticker price, plan for spare parts (typically 10–15% per year in classroom use), shipping, and optionally a service contract. Our catalogue lists price bands; vendors confirm education discounts directly.
Not necessarily. Many education-oriented platforms ship with Python SDKs and visual examples; ROS 2 becomes relevant for advanced courses. Check the Software / SDK row per model.
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