Robotic Kits

From a $390 AI development kit to complete manufacturing training lines, this collection gathers all 22 robotics kits we stock from WLKATA and Elephant Robotics — spanning K-12 STEM classrooms, university engineering labs, vocational training programs, and serious home makers. As an authorized dealer for both brands, RoboticsSelect ships genuine kits with manufacturer warranties, curriculum textbooks where included, and real pre-sale guidance from a team that knows the product line.

What separates these kits from toy robots is the engineering underneath: real 6-axis kinematics, engineering-grade repeatability specs, and the same software stacks — ROS, MATLAB, Python, Arduino — that students will meet again in industry. A well-chosen educational robot arm teaches mechanical design, programming, and AI concepts on hardware that behaves like the real thing, at a price a classroom budget can justify.

Match the kit to the learner's starting point. Beginners get moving fastest with block-based programming — the Mirobot Education Kit supports Blockly for first-timers, then graduates the same hardware to Python, ROS, MATLAB and Simulink, and even G-code as skills grow. That progression matters: one arm can carry a student from first motion (typically within 30 minutes in Blockly) all the way to university-level inverse kinematics coursework.

Check the software ecosystem against your curriculum before you buy. WLKATA's Mirobot line ships with ROS support and a MATLAB Robotics System Toolbox model for offline simulation; the MT4 line is built around ROS2 and Arduino; and the Haro380 adds PLC control for industrial-automation programs. If your course teaches simulation-first workflows, that included sim support means students can develop at home without booking hardware time.

Budget tiers are clean. Under $1,000: the WLKATA AI-HUB Development Kit ($390), the OpenMV-based AI Vision Set ($890), and the WLKATA AGV Rover Set ($910). From $1,380 to $1,890: the Mirobot and MT4 robotic arm kits. From about $2,700 up: applied training cells like the Fruit Picking Cell, Elephant Robotics platforms, and the Haro380 industrial arms — with full training lines for technical schools running $4,500 to $7,200.

The Mirobot is the teaching workhorse: a 6-axis desktop arm with roughly 0.2 mm repeatability, a 50 g payload sized for classroom objects, and tool-free end-effector swaps — gripper, suction cup, pen holder, laser engraver and more change over in about 30 seconds. Education, Professional, and Advanced kit tiers bundle different accessory and curriculum levels, from $1,680 to $1,890.

The MT4 Edu Kit steps up to a metal-bodied 4-axis arm with 0.1 mm repeatability and a 750 g payload — enough precision and strength for engineering-grade prototyping rather than demonstration alone. It is also rebuildable by design: students can disassemble and reassemble the arm as a mechanical engineering exercise, then drive it through ROS2 or Arduino.

For vocational and industrial-automation programs, the Haro380 Core and Advanced kits bring 6-axis industrial-grade construction with PLC, ROS2, MATLAB, and voice control — the control stack technicians actually meet on factory floors. These arms anchor WLKATA's complete training cells, like the AI Automatic Sorting Cell and the Automobile Assembly Cell, which reproduce full production workstations at classroom scale.

The AI-HUB kits are built around the xFactory Brain, a Raspberry Pi-class AI compute module running TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch Mobile, and OpenCV. Students do not just run canned demos — they collect data, train image classifiers and object detectors on a laptop, then deploy those models to real hardware, guided by a 20-chapter textbook that runs through model optimization and AI ethics. The step-up AI Navigation Learning Kit wires those skills into robotic arm control by vision, voice, and gesture.

Elephant Robotics broadens the collection into mobile manipulation: the LIMO Cobot pairs a lidar-equipped mobile base — NVIDIA Jetson Nano onboard, ROS 2 with SLAM and Nav2 pre-configured — with a myCobot 280 arm, a platform that appears in published mobile-manipulation research. Several institutional kits, including the UltraArm Conveyor Belt Kit, the Compound Robot Intelligent Logistics Kit, and the Portable AI Educational WorkStation, are quote-based — send us your requirements and we will turn a quote around quickly.

Departments outfitting whole classrooms can order kits individually or as sets, and our team prepares formal quotes for purchase orders and procurement systems. Call (412) 415-7375 or email support@roboticsselect.com (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm EST) with your headcount and course goals — many programs pair one instructor-grade arm with several student Mirobots, and we will spec that mix honestly for your budget.

Every robotics kit ships free to the contiguous 48 US states — even multi-box training lines — with a 30-day window from delivery to initiate a return under our refund policy (quote-based institutional builds can be final sale, so confirm terms before ordering). Shop Pay Installments powered by Affirm offers four interest-free biweekly payments on eligible orders, and our price match policy beats any verified lower authorized-retailer price by $50 on kits over $2,000, from the Fruit Picking Cell to full training lines.

When you are ready to extend a kit, genuine add-ons live in our accessories collection: conveyor belt and sliding rail sets that fit the Mirobot, MT4, and Haro380, MATLAB and ROS2 textbooks, and T-slot aluminum starter kits for custom fixtures. Start with the buying guide below to shortlist the right STEM robotics kit for your students, syllabus, and budget.