NVIDIA (open reference design; kits by Waveshare, SparkFun and others) NVIDIA JetBot (1)

$399.99 – $499.99 (Waveshare kit with Jetson Nano)Waveshare's JetBot AI Kit price range (September 2026), with either its own Jetson Nano board or NVIDIA's Jetson Nano Developer Kit (B01) included; Jetson Nano itself is end-of-life.

Discontinued · used/leftover onlyVia SSH / web / bridgeJetson NanoJupyter notebooksOpen sourceTiny

Possibly ≤ 1 weekShipping: Varies. Waveshare still lists complete JetBot AI Kits (Jetson Nano included); other chassis-only kits require sourcing a Jetson separately.

Remote control: A laptop browser opens JupyterLab served by the robot and runs Python there; custom scripts can stream the camera to the laptop.

GitHub ↗Waveshare kit ↗

Overview

NVIDIA's 2019 open-source teaching robot that popularized on-board neural networks on a hobby budget, with notebooks for collision avoidance and road following. The repo has seen little maintenance and the Jetson Nano is discontinued, so it is mainly historical now. Waveshare and others still sell compatible chassis kits.

Specifications

Category	Wheeled rovers · Ready-made dev rovers
Released	2019
Availability	Discontinued · used/leftover only
Programmability	Open source (hardware + software)
Best for	Ages 14+ (estimated)
Vision sensors	Camera
Actuators	DC / gear motors
Audio	No audio
Compute type	NVIDIA Jetson
Remote control	Via SSH / web / bridge
Size	~15×15×13 cm (est.)
Drive	2-wheel differential with caster
Compute	NVIDIA Jetson Nano 4 GB
Vision	Single wide-angle CSI camera
Lidar	None
Sensors	None standard beyond camera (kit-dependent)
Runtime	~1–2 h (kit-dependent)
Speed	Not published
SDK	Python `jetbot` package in Jupyter notebooks (collision avoidance, road following), NVIDIA Isaac Sim model