Robonine Labs · For schools

A real robot on every desk —
built, calibrated and programmed by your students

A 5-DOF robot arm, a 10-lesson interactive course and the Robonine Lab platform. Students assemble, calibrate and program an actual robot — running the same open-source stack (HuggingFace LeRobot) that university robotics labs use, at a school budget.

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A pair of SO-ARM101 robot arms on a classroom desk — a hand drives the leader arm while the follower mirrors it
  • Delivery in 2–4 weeks
  • Ages 12+, supervised
  • HuggingFace LeRobot ecosystem

Why schools say yes

Two reasons it earns its place

Two SO-ARM101 arms on a classroom desk, one driven by hand

Engagement

Hold the students who have outgrown screens

Upper-primary and secondary students who are done with floor-bots and block coding stay engaged when the robot is real, physical, and theirs to command.

A complete SO-ARM101 kit — leader arm, follower arm, camera, cables and clamps

Prestige & enrolment

A flagship you can recruit on

A visible robotics programme becomes open-day material, prospectus copy, and a reason families choose your school over the one down the road.

The lesson experience

What a student actually does

Every lesson ends with the robot doing something on the desk — never just a slide on a screen.

  1. 01

    Assemble

    Build a real 5-DOF arm from the parts in the box.

  2. 02

    Calibrate

    Zero the joints; learn accuracy vs. repeatability.

  3. 03

    Teleoperate

    Move the leader arm by hand; the follower mirrors it.

  4. 04

    Program

    Write Python for pick-and-place and tool work.

  5. 05

    Go autonomous

    Add the camera; the robot sees, decides and acts.

The Robonine Lab course modules: robot assembly, connection and anatomy, calibration, teleoperation, pick-and-place and end-effector work
The actual course modules inside Robonine Lab — from first assembly to autonomous tasks.

Not another toy kit

Built on what the field actually uses

  • HuggingFace LeRobot

    The same open-source stack used in university robotics labs. Students learn the real tool, not a toy abstraction.

  • Open-source platform

    Open parts, open firmware, open datasets. Nothing is a black box — students can read, change and extend everything.

  • The industry path

    Teleoperation → learning from demonstrations → ML: the exact progression robotics teams follow, with no re-tooling later.

The Robonine Lab platform — a calibration lesson with a live 3D view of the robot arm

Where it leads

Careers this maps to

Named roles and the companies that hire for them — not abstract “STEM careers”.

Industrial robotics engineer

Assembling, calibrating and programming a real robot arm.

  • Fanuc
  • KUKA
  • ABB

ML engineer for robotics

Teleoperation and imitation learning with LeRobot.

  • Figure
  • Boston Dynamics
  • 1X

Computer-vision engineer

Perception for pick-and-place and autonomous tasks.

  • Tesla
  • NVIDIA
  • Intuitive

The offer

What you get

01

Equipment

SO-ARM101 kits — a real 5-DOF arm with a parallel gripper and camera. Start with one, one per pair, or a full class.

02

Interactive course on Robonine Lab

Ten interactive lessons, adapted to your curriculum and the age of the class, delivered on the Robonine Lab platform.

03

Teacher — no headache

We source and vet a teacher for you to hire, or train your existing teacher to run the course. On request.

No in-house roboticist needed. The course is self-guided — the teacher supervises, no robotics expertise required.

How it works

The pilot, step by step

Honest timeline — delivery is 2–4 weeks, so plan the start 4–6 weeks ahead.

  1. 1

    Call & scope

    A 30-minute call to size the pilot to your class and goals.

  2. 2

    Order kits

    50/50 deposit; delivery in 2–4 weeks.

  3. 3

    Course on Robonine Lab

    We adapt the 10 lessons and set up your class on the platform.

  4. 4

    Teacher ready

    We source a teacher for you to hire, or train yours.

  5. 5

    Launch

    Students assemble and run the robot; certificate at the end.

Start small

Begin with what you need

No big upfront commitment. Start with a single kit or one classroom — the cost grows only as you do.

  • Robot kit Unassembled · one kit per pair of students
    $349
  • Base course for a class Up to 15 students · 10 interactive lessons on Robonine Lab
    $890
  • Teacher — sourcing or training Optional, on request
    On request

Straight answers

Questions schools ask

We don’t have a teacher

The course is self-guided. We also source and vet a teacher for you to hire, or train your existing teacher to run it.

Is it safe for children?

Desk-scale hardware, low-torque servos, a force-sensing gripper and a software E-stop. The very first, introductory lesson of the interactive course is a safety briefing — work-zone rules and safe handling — and the class covers it before the robot moves.

Delivery is 2–4 weeks

It is, and we say so. Plan the start 4–6 weeks ahead and you are comfortably clear.

We already have Lego / VEX

Those are great for first contact. This is the next step up — the same workflow, vocabulary and open-source tools the robotics industry actually uses, not a replacement for that first kit.

Why it’s credible

Built on what robotics research actually uses

HuggingFace LeRobot

The SO-ARM is part of the open LeRobot ecosystem — the stack robotics researchers and startups actually use.

Open-source lineage

Open hardware, open firmware, open datasets — inspectable end to end. Students can read it, change it, and publish their own work.

University-lab methodology

The same teleoperation → learning-from-demonstrations → ML path taught in university robotics labs.

Pilot-school references will be listed here as they come online.

Who it fits

From one classroom to a whole network of schools

Book a call

Book a 30-minute call to scope a pilot

Tell us about your class and we’ll come back with a plan and an exact quote — no commitment.

Prefer email? hello@robonine.com