Robot platforms
Every robot family we support is described once — how it is driven, what it publishes, what it can do — and the dashboard, the installer, the showcase and the Knowledge Base all read from that. Adding a robot to a class is registering it and running one script.
ROS 2 robots
The flagship classroom rover. Four mecanum wheels drive forward, turn and strafe sideways; a 5-axis arm and a depth camera sit on top; odometry, IMU and an optional lidar are published for the class to use. Six showcase projects — drive, strafe, patrol, odometry, obstacle stop — and a full set-up guide ship with it.
A bipedal humanoid for the class that has outgrown wheels. Gait and balance are handled by its own motion stack; students command walk, turn and gestures from the same block workspace, with an IMU to reason about.
A four-legged walker that runs ROS 2 in its own container. Sideways steps, turns and an IMU make it the natural next platform after the rover — the motion is different, the blocks are the same.
A self-balancing two-wheeler — the control-theory lesson on wheels. We install ROS 2 for it in a container, so the dashboard sees it like any other robot.
Any Raspberry Pi, Jetson or Debian board with ROS 2 installed registers as a Generic Linux robot. Download its installer, run it once, and it appears on the dashboard with the same emergency stop and diagnostics as everything else.
Kits
Kits ship with a bill of materials the platform reads, so the showcase and the Knowledge Base only show projects the class can build with what is on the table.
The starting kit for a class. Uno R3, breadboard and wires, ultrasonic and IR sensors, buttons, potentiometers, LDRs, LEDs, a servo, a buzzer, an L298N motor driver and a robot chassis — everything for the Arduino showcase series, from a blinking LED to a line-following robot.
Wi-Fi, a faster board and a dozen new sensors: soil moisture, PIR motion, temperature and humidity, gas, sound, a Hall sensor, a water pump with relay, an RGB LED and a 4WD chassis — the second-year kit with its own DevKit project series.
A 30-minute demo covers the academy platform end to end, and where a utility robot could earn its keep on your site.
Hawaii Robo Labs