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About the book →Innovation Labs combine robotics, coding, AI, VR/AR, drones, and 3D printing in a single designed learning environment. Multi-station rotation, standards-aligned curriculum, professional development included. Grant-funded and scalable across a district.
Three years in: a 3D printer that nobody uses, two NAO robots in storage, and a VR headset cart that the IT team avoids. RobotLAB designs Innovation Labs as a coherent experience — every station has curriculum, every teacher has PD.
Without rotation, structure, and curriculum, students plateau. Multi-station Innovation Labs cycle students through different modalities — coding, building, designing, presenting — which keeps engagement high.
Lighthouse pilots that work in one school often die when leadership tries to replicate. We deliver district-wide deployment playbooks so each lab gets the same design, curriculum, and PD — and scales cleanly.
Our techs map your facility. Robots learn doorways, glass walls, no-go zones.
Set zones, times, and modes. Robots run on a schedule that fits your operation.
Fleet dashboard shows runtime, coverage, and maintenance needs. Weekly reports.
K-12 standard, district-wide rollout, and CTE-focused workforce labs. All include curriculum, PD, and ongoing support.
The Unitree Go2 is the most accessible quadruped Unitree makes — about 15 kg, with a 3D LiDAR, an SDK on the EDU builds and a price that puts a real legged robot inside a teaching budget. The Go2-W runs the same platform
The Unitree B2 is the industrial end of the quadruped line — built for inspection and carrying payloads over ground a wheeled robot cannot cross. The B2-W swaps the feet for wheels, trading some obstacle clearance for sp
NAO Transport Case for Research
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BellaBot provides users with an unprecedented food delivery robot experience.
A compact 100 kg-payload differential-drive AGV base used in university robotics programs for autonomous indoor logistics and navigation research.
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An omnidirectional four-wheel-steering research rover that moves in any direction without turning — RobotLAB delivers it deployed, integrated, and supported.
RobotLAB Esports Lab. for Virtual Reality/Esports. RobotLAB.
It includes: 1 Wind Machine, 1 Fog Machine, 1 Aroma Generator, Wall Brackets, Aroma Oils & Fog Fluid.
It includes: - 1 Engage! K12 3-year site license (lesson plans, activities, classroom management) - 1 Cubelets Intrepid Inventors Mega Pack - 1 Dash Classroom Pack(6 Dashes) with Class Connect - 1 Ozobot Evo Classroom Kit (18 bots) - 1…
RobotLAB - CTE Lab. Robotlab from RobotLAB. 16,000+ robots deployed. Get a free demo.
A compact, high-speed 4-wheel-drive UGV platform that brings ROS-ready autonomy research and rugged indoor/outdoor mobility within reach of any lab or team.
RobotLAB - AI Lab. Robotlab from RobotLAB. 16,000+ robots deployed. Get a free demo.
A desktop 6-axis collaborative robot arm that teaches real industrial automation, ROS, and Python on a benchtop footprint. Sold, deployed, and serviced nationwide by RobotLAB.
An industrial-grade desktop robotic-arm training cell that brings real automation, machine vision, and conveyor-line workflows into the classroom and research lab.
A cloud-connected humanoid service robot that greets, guides, and engages customers autonomously — deployed, configured, and supported nationwide by RobotLAB.
A desktop "mini smart factory" that pairs a Dobot Magician arm with a sensor-equipped conveyor so students program real production-line flow, pick-and-place, and quality checks on a benchtop.
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A Python-native classroom rover that turns real code into real robot motion—built for grades 6-12 CS electives.
A camera-equipped autonomous coding drone that teaches real Python, computer vision, and machine learning to grades 6-12 — deployed and supported nationwide by RobotLAB.
Firia Labs' browser-based Python platform — a one-year floating license that turns Chromebooks and laptops into a full coding classroom, no hardware required.
A flight-ready classroom drone kit that turns Python and block coding into something students can actually watch take off — delivered and supported nationwide by RobotLAB.
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Humanizing Technologies Interactive Avatars. Humanizing technologies interactive avatars from RobotLAB. 16,000+ robots deployed. Get a free demo.
An Android-powered tabletop coding cobot that brings touchscreen-driven STEM, computer science, and core-curriculum lessons to K-12 classrooms for the price of a tablet.
A social humanoid robot that greets, guides, and interacts with people through speech and touch — used in education, hospitality, and assisted living, and supported nationwide by RobotLAB.
A turnkey, multi-station Dobot Magician robotics lab for schools — robot arms, conveyors, K-12 curriculum, and teacher training in one classroom-ready bundle.
The NAO V6 is the world's most widely deployed teaching humanoid — a 25-joint, fully programmable robot for K-12, special education, higher-ed, and research labs. Sold, deployed, and serviced nationwide by RobotLAB.
A screen-free hybrid coding-robot classroom pack that grows with students from tactile coding cards to Blockly and Python.
An interactive projected-reality system that turns tables, floors, and beds into motion-activated learning and therapy surfaces for K-12 and special education.
A classroom-ready pack of 5 humanoid walking robots that teach K-8 students to code from screen-free cards to Python, deployed and trained by RobotLAB.
A 58 cm fully programmable humanoid with built-in conversational AI, facial recognition, and pre-packaged AI skills — deployed and supported by RobotLAB for classrooms, research labs, and patient-facing care.
A 10-student classroom set of build-it-yourself self-driving cars that teach real AI, computer vision, and Python — deployed, warrantied, and supported by RobotLAB.
Explore the comprehensive RobotLAB 9-12 STEM Lab for high school students, featuring advanced tools like autonomous cars and robotic arms to enhance STE...
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A full-size 6-axis collaborative robot arm — 5 kg payload, 900 mm reach, ±0.02 mm repeatability — that brings real industrial cobot automation into research and higher-education labs, with RobotLAB handling installation, training, and support.
The classroom-ready 4-axis robotic arm under $1,000 — block coding to Python, suction-cup to soft gripper, all on a desktop footprint.
Grow 394+ pounds of fresh produce a year in under 10 square feet — a turnkey indoor vertical farm built for classrooms, cafeterias, and food programs.
A 20-robot screen-free coding fleet that takes a whole classroom from tactile coding cards to Blockly and Python — one purchase, one platform, every student building from day one.
Bring your lessons to life with virtual reality. Spark curiosity and engage the entire classroom with the RobotLAB VR classroom pack
Bring your lessons to life with virtual reality. Spark curiosity and engage the entire classroom with the RobotLAB VR classroom pack
Bring your lessons to life with virtual reality. Spark curiosity and engage the entire classroom with the RobotLAB VR classroom pack
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Online Training on Pepper Humanoid Robot
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A ready-to-teach classroom fleet of programmable Robolink CoDrone EDU drones — code in Blockly or Python, with chargers, spare parts, and free curriculum, deployed and supported by RobotLAB.
Universal Terminal Systems iSandBox Projected Reality. for Education/STEM. RobotLAB.
UBTech's flagship full-size bipedal humanoid, purpose-configured for university and research-lab work in locomotion, manipulation, and embodied AI.
A desktop-sized ROS 2 research rover with four switchable steering modes — the fastest path from classroom theory to real autonomous-navigation projects.
A turnkey, ROS-ready research rover: the AgileX Scout Mini 4WD base pre-integrated with LiDAR, a depth camera, IMU, and an onboard NVIDIA Jetson computer — so your lab skips the build and starts running SLAM, navigation, and vision experiments on day one.
Turn any AgileX rover into a full-stack autonomous-driving research vehicle — pre-integrated LiDAR, compute, and Autoware software, deployed and supported by RobotLAB.
A compact Ackermann-steering autonomous UGV chassis that brings car-like steering dynamics and 4.8 m/s speed to robotics research labs.
A rugged, ultra-compact tracked robot chassis that crawls where wheeled platforms can't — built for sensor, arm, and autonomy research in tight, off-road, and harsh environments.
A rugged, tracked all-terrain robot chassis built to climb, crawl, and carry where wheeled platforms stall — sold, deployed, and supported by RobotLAB.
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A high-payload, Ackermann-steering UGV platform that lets research teams and integrators prototype real autonomous-driving behavior on a car-like chassis.
A rugged 4WD differential-drive UGV platform with a 50 kg payload, in-place turning, and open ROS/CAN integration — ideal for outdoor robotics research and autonomy development. Sold, deployed, and serviced nationwide by RobotLAB.
The Peel 3 scanner bundled with peel.CAD — your seamless bridge from 3D scan data to CAD software. Built for reverse engineering: scan a part, then transfer clean geometry into SOLIDWORKS, Inventor, or PTC.
NAO V6 Available only for official teams competing on RoboCup
Standards-aligned, PreK–12 lesson plans and classroom resources that turn your existing Cubelets robots into a ready-to-teach STEM curriculum.
A ready-to-teach elementary robotics lab in a box — 6 Dash robots, a Dot, hands-on accessories, the K-5 Learn to Code curriculum, and a year of Class Connect progress tracking — supporting a full classroom at a 3:1 student-to-robot ratio.
A full media-lab station of 12 Dash robots, a Dot, and a year of Class Connect — the largest single-room Wonder Workshop coding bundle RobotLAB ships for K-5.
Classroom VR Expeditions 2.0 is the next generation Google Expedition for Education.
Multi-functional 4-Axis Cooperative Robotic Arm designed for Colleges
Four extra Kai robots to expand your Kai's Clan classroom — more students coding on the same collaborative AR/VR mat at once.
A 12-robot AR/VR/IoT classroom platform that turns block coding into collaborative, multiplayer STEM missions for grades 5-10.
An autonomous, video-first personal assistant robot that greets, guides, and connects people — deployed, financed, and serviced nationwide by RobotLAB.
Bring your lessons to life with virtual reality. Spark curiosity and engage the entire classroom with the RobotLAB VR
A complete, classroom-ready NAO V6 humanoid robot bundle — robot, curriculum, software licenses, training, and warranty in one professional-grade package for STEM, special education, and research programs.
RobotLAB NAO School Starter Pack Duo
An extra year of RobotLAB warranty coverage for the NAO V6 humanoid robot, the classroom and research platform used in STEM education programs.
Trade-in program: Upgrade your NAO robot to the latest version 6 (NAO Power V6)
A fully programmable, classroom-ready NAO humanoid robot bundled with software licenses, curriculum, training, and warranty — deployed and supported nationwide by RobotLAB.
The NAO humanoid robot, packaged with the Zora care software, turns a 23-inch social robot into a tablet-controlled activity companion for senior living and rehabilitation programs.
The classroom-proven humanoid robot trusted by Yale and MIT — 25 motorized joints, vision, and 19-language speech in a 23-inch programmable platform that teaches coding, STEM, and human-robot interaction hands-on.
Battery Charger for use with NAO humanoid robot.
Bring your lessons to life with virtual reality. Spark curiosity and engage the entire classroom with the RobotLAB VR classroom advanced pack
Bring your lessons to life with virtual reality. Spark curiosity and engage the entire classroom with the RobotLAB AR/VR
A 4-foot social humanoid greeter that welcomes patrons, answers library questions, surfaces book reviews and recommendations, and runs outreach programming — deployed, configured, and supported by RobotLAB.
The classroom-ready NAO V6 humanoid bundle — robot, Choregraphe software, SoftBank curriculum, and a year of RobotLAB support, all in one educator package.
A classroom-ready NAO humanoid bundled with everything a school needs to launch hands-on STEM and robotics programming — robot, software licenses, curriculum, and training in one package.
A high-precision 4-axis desktop robotic arm with five swappable tool heads, sold by RobotLAB as a turnkey STEAM bundle for hands-on robotics, coding, and automation learning.
A complete, classroom-ready 4-axis robotic arm STEAM lab — one Dobot Magician V3 plus every tool head, wireless control, and a full year of K-14 curriculum, supplied and supported by RobotLAB.
Turn a Dobot Magician into an eye-equipped automation cell — add machine vision for sorting, inspection, and AI research at a higher-ed budget.
A classroom-ready Dobot Magician V3 robotics kit — the 4-axis arm, a conveyor belt, a year of K-12 curriculum, and live RobotLAB onboarding in one $3,490 starter bundle.
A turnkey three-station robotics lab: 3 Dobot Magician arms, 2 conveyor belts, a linear rail, and a year of K12 curriculum, ready to teach automation out of the box.
A full-classroom robotics lab in a box: five Dobot Magician 4-axis arms, conveyors, a linear rail, and a year of K-12 curriculum, deployed and supported by RobotLAB.
A compact 4-axis desktop industrial cobot that brings affordable, fast-changeover automation to any small-batch production line or advanced robotics lab.
The Conveyor Kit for Dobot Magician makes you have a complete production line simulation.
Make your robot go further with the Sliding Rail Kit for Dobot Magician V3 robotic arm designed for high end STEAM education and makers.
Multi-functional smart robotic arm platform designed for high end STEAM education and makers.
Multi-functional 4-Axis Cooperative Robotic Arm designed for Colleges
Multi-functional smart robotic arm platform designed for high end STEAM education and makers.
A genuine Aldebaran NAO V5 Evolution humanoid for schools at a fraction of new-unit cost — RobotLAB's open-box program puts a fully programmable, 25-DOF STEM robot in your classroom.
A NASA Curiosity-inspired research rover build from RobotLAB. Currently out of stock, and preserved here for reference.
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A K-5 STEM bundle that brings hands-on coding and robotics into the elementary classroom, with curriculum, training, and support from RobotLAB.
A ready-to-teach classroom set of programmable Python and Blockly coding drones — deployed, labeled, and supported nationwide by RobotLAB.
A classroom-ready fleet of programmable CoDrone EDU quadcopters that turns Python and block coding into hands-on flight — deployed, supported, and serviced by RobotLAB.
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The most popular classroom-scale Cubelets kit — 78 magnetic robot blocks that let six student groups build steerable, screen-free robots and learn how sensors, logic, and action work together.
A screen-free modular robotics kit for six student groups — 78 snap-together Cubelets plus 6 Bluetooth Hats that turn block-building into hands-on coding for PreK through 12th grade.
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The largest Cubelets set RobotLAB sells: 156 magnetic, screen-free robot blocks that scale across 6 to 12 student groups for makerspaces, libraries, museums, and full classrooms.
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Screen-free classroom robotics for your youngest builders — 52 magnetic Cubelets robot blocks that snap together into working robots, sized for six small groups of PreK and early-elementary students.
A 20-block Cubelets starter kit that lets students ages 4+ snap together working robots in seconds — no coding, no wiring, no screens required.
Snap-together robot blocks that teach coding and computational thinking with zero wires and no screen required — a 12-block starter kit RobotLAB sources, configures, and supports for classrooms, makerspaces, and home learners nationwide.
Add more robot blocks and an engineering-design curriculum to the Cubelets kits you already own — so students prototype, reverse-engineer, and problem-solve their way through real design-thinking challenges, no programming or wiring required.
A subject-specific Cubelets add-on that turns snap-together robot blocks into a hands-on life science lab, with grade-aligned lesson plans on observation, behavior, and adaptation.
Turn the Cubelets kits you already own into a full computational-thinking curriculum — no screens, no syntax, no new robots to buy.
An open-platform, fully programmable miniature humanoid with 20 metal-geared DYNAMIXEL joints and an onboard PC, built for hands-on robotics research and advanced STEM education.
An open-source 20-DOF humanoid research platform with HD vision and an Intel NUC brain, built for serious work in walking, perception, and human-robot interaction.
A $499 16-DOF programmable humanoid kit that puts walking-robot robotics, coding, and 3D-printed design into students' hands.
Two Dash and two Dot robots in a club-ready kit that gets 6 to 14 kids coding, building, and collaborating on day one.
Outfit a K-5 classroom for small-group coding with six award-winning Dash robots and Class Connect licensing — screen-free-friendly STEM that two students can share per robot.
Bring STEM to life with Dash & Dot robots, Hands-on learning tools to teach coding for grades K-5
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“An innovation lab is not a room full of gadgets. It is a designed learning environment where every station teaches a skill, every tool has a curriculum, and every student walks out knowing more than when they walked in.”
RobotLAB designed and deployed standardized Innovation Labs across all 12 middle schools in a mid-size district. Each lab includes the same 6 stations, same curriculum, same PD. Result: every middle-school student in the district gets the same future-ready exposure. Teachers share lesson improvements across schools via a teacher community.
Read the case study →Get a free site survey. We'll shortlist 2–3 robots that fit your operating conditions and budget.
Practical answers about building a commercial-robotics innovation lab for higher ed, K-12, and research teams, covering what the robots do, what they cost, and how to get a lab funded and running.
An innovation lab is a dedicated space where students and researchers build, program, and test real robots rather than just simulations. A typical setup mixes humanoid platforms like SoftBank’s Pepper and NAO, mobile bases such as AgileX Tracer and Unitree Go 2, and supporting kits for coding, AI, and prototyping. RobotLAB assembles these into a coherent lab matched to your courses or research goals instead of a pile of unrelated hardware.
Costs vary widely with scale, from a single research robot and accessories up into a fully outfitted multi-station lab, so there is no honest one-size figure. Individual platforms on this page range from academic humanoids to professional-grade quadrupeds and research AGVs, each at very different price points. Request a quote with your room size, student count, and target curriculum and we will build an itemized budget.
Students program real movement, perception, and human-robot interaction: coding NAO and Pepper for speech and gesture, navigating AgileX Tracer and Unitree Go 2 through mapped spaces, and writing AI and computer-vision routines that run on physical hardware. This covers Python and block coding, ROS, sensors, autonomy, and AI concepts. The learning comes from debugging robots that behave like real-world systems, not idealized models.
Research teams typically choose professional-grade, ROS-friendly platforms like the AgileX Tracer Research, Unitree Go 2 Professional, and NAO for repeatable experiments. K-12 and intro courses usually start with SoftBank Pepper Academic Edition and NAO, which pair approachable programming with strong engagement. We help you match platform capability to the age group and research rigor you need.
Yes, platforms like the AgileX Tracer are positioned for serious research use, with this page noting Georgia Tech among AGV users. The academic editions of Pepper and NAO are widely adopted in education and research settings for HRI, AI, and computer-science coursework. We can point you to platforms suited to peer-reviewed work versus teaching, but we do not invent enrollment or outcome statistics.
Many programs fund robotics labs through STEM grants, capital education budgets, workforce-development funds, and research awards, and our platforms are commonly purchased through these channels. We can provide quotes, specifications, and capability descriptions formatted to support a grant or RFP. Ask us for documentation tailored to the funding source you are targeting.
RobotLAB provides training so faculty and lab managers can teach and maintain the equipment without prior robotics backgrounds. Academic-edition platforms ship with curriculum-friendly programming environments, and we offer a Robot Maintenance Service to keep hardware running across the school year. The goal is for one trained instructor to confidently lead a class or research group.
This page features RobotLAB-curated platforms from Dobot, AgileX, Unitree, Firia, SoftBank, UVD, and LG. That spans humanoids (NAO, Pepper), mobile and quadruped robots (AgileX Tracer, Unitree Go 2), coding tools, and specialized units like UVD disinfection robots for applied research. As a multi-brand integrator we recommend across vendors rather than pushing a single line.
We focus on delivering working, well-matched hardware and the training to use it, and the academic editions include their own programming and lesson environments. We can advise on how platforms map to coding, AI, and engineering coursework, but we are honest that the depth of packaged curriculum varies by product. Tell us your course objectives and we will recommend the platforms and support that fit.
Mobility and protection matter when robots move between rooms or campuses, so this page includes purpose-built cases such as the NAO Research Robot storage and transport case and the Pepper transport case for research. These keep delicate humanoids safe during shared-lab use and field demos. We can bundle the right cases and accessories with each platform so the equipment survives daily handling.
RobotLAB offers nationwide service and a Robot Maintenance Service to keep lab robots calibrated, updated, and repaired through heavy student use. As a multi-brand integrator we support the mix of platforms in one lab rather than leaving you to chase individual manufacturers. Ask for service-plan options when you request your quote so support is scoped to your fleet.
Start by telling us your space, student or researcher count, target courses or research areas, and budget or grant timeline, and we will propose a lab configuration and an itemized quote. We can also arrange a demo of platforms like NAO, Pepper, or the AgileX Tracer so your team sees them before committing. Use the form on this page or call 1-87-RobotLAB.
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