D-Robotics and Unitree Robotics Jointly Launch Embodied Intelligence Education Solution

Robot Horizons, October 30 report: At the Changsha Education Equipment Exhibition held from October 30 to November 1, D-Robotics and Unitree Robotics appeared together in a joint exhibition for the first time, announcing a strategic partnership. Using the Sunrise S100 compute box as the core compute foundation, the two parties have combined Unitree Robotics' Go2 quadruped robot and R1 humanoid robot to jointly launch an embodied intelligence education solution, covering hardware equipment, curriculum systems, course-competition integrated practice projects, and teaching environment construction, providing complete support for primary and secondary schools to systematically carry out embodied intelligence education.

The two parties will integrate D-Robotics' technological accumulation in the field of intelligent computing with Unitree Robotics' product capabilities in the fields of quadruped and humanoid robots, taking education as the first scenario for cooperation to land, jointly creating a replicable and promotable regional robotics education demonstration model, and plan to further expand cooperation to more scenarios such as industry.

I. The Sunrise S100 compute box supports real-machine teaching, creating an embodied intelligence education solution

For embodied intelligence to enter primary and secondary school classrooms, robot hardware, computing platforms, and teaching content need to be closely connected. K12 is the scenario where the joint solution of D-Robotics and Unitree Robotics first lands; the two parties take this as the first entry point and will subsequently expand to more educational stages and scenarios. The solution uses the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot, R1 humanoid robot, D-Robotics Sunrise S100 intelligent computing platform, and Guyueju desktop robot as the core hardware carriers, and is accompanied by 15 themed courses with a total of 180 lessons, covering primary school, junior high school, and senior high school, integrating robot perception, computing, and action capabilities into course practice.

As the core computing support of the joint solution, the Sunrise S100 intelligent computing platform integrates a CPU, BPU, and MCU within a single SoC, placing perception and decision-making and real-time motion control on the same chip for coordinated operation, providing an end-side computing foundation for perception and intelligent application practice of robot bodies such as Go2 and R1.

Compared with traditional educational robot solutions in which visual recognition and motor drive belong to different boards and require additional handling of communication latency and debugging complexity, the S100's integrated computing and control design enables a closed loop of "perception-decision-action" on a single platform, supporting real-machine development and task verification oriented toward teaching.

Centered on the learning needs of different educational stages, the solution establishes a two-level progression path from desktop level to real-machine level. Students can start with hands-on practice using desktop robots such as OriginBot, OriginMan, and OriginDog empowered by RDK full-series compute foundations such as RDK X3 and RDKX5, and gradually advance to comprehensive applications of the Go2 and R1 quadruped robots and humanoid robots.

Beyond courses, the solution introduces a course-competition integration design, linking knowledge learning and comprehensive application through task challenges. The six course-competition integrated courses cover projects such as dual-robot relay, the Go2 stable transport challenge, and the R1 robot referee, integrating tasks such as robot collaboration, transport, and interaction into teaching, and testing learning outcomes through specific tasks. At the same time, the solution is accompanied by practice projects, books and textbooks, and teaching environment construction standards, supporting reuse across multiple scenarios such as classrooms and laboratories, meeting the needs of daily teaching, project practice, and competition training, and improving the efficiency of teaching resource utilization.

II. A mature compute foundation joins hands with hardcore robot bodies, with education taking the lead as multi-scenario cooperation accelerates and expands

This cooperation combines Unitree's R&D and product capabilities in the fields of quadruped and humanoid robots with D-Robotics' intelligent computing platform and education ecosystem to jointly develop teaching solutions for schools. Through curriculum support, regional demonstrations, and joint promotion, the two parties will further expand the teaching applications of Unitree robots, promote the integration of D-Robotics' computing platform into classroom practice, and jointly develop the embodied intelligence education market.

D-Robotics continues to build the foundation of the embodied intelligence education ecosystem through computing platforms, co-built courses, and partner collaboration. Since 2023, D-Robotics has co-built robotics majors and talent training systems with multiple institutions; in 2025, it will further join hands with Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Shenzhen University, and other institutions to explore the construction of embodied intelligence micro-majors, competition cooperation, and cutting-edge algorithm research. Relying on the DUP university developer program, D-Robotics has established cooperation with more than 500 universities, carried out more than 1,000 courses and activities in total, and gathered more than 50 education partners, providing teaching experience and ecosystem resource support for the development and promotion of this joint solution.

The long-term value of education cooperation lies in supporting students to continuously advance into robot developers. Competitions supported by D-Robotics cover stages from primary and secondary school to master's and doctoral levels, and have supported more than 3,000 competition teams in total. This cooperation will further enrich the practical carriers of quadruped and humanoid robots, and, relying on D-Robotics' computing platforms, courses, and competition resources, connect learning and development practice across different educational stages.

The two parties will take the Sunrise S100 as the starting point of cooperation, jointly advance the implementation of the education solution, and, in combination with the needs of subsequent scenarios such as education and industry, explore expansion to other D-Robotics chip products, continuously deepening product synergy between computing platforms and robot bodies.