$299.99 – $879.99Hiwonder store, October 2026. Starter (monocular camera, lidar) $299.99 without a board, $429.99 / $489.99 / $589.99 / $709.99 with a Pi 5 2 / 4 / 8 / 16 GB. Standard adds the depth camera, $439.99 without a board and $569.99 / $629.99 / $729.99 / $849.99 with a Pi 5. Advanced adds the WonderEcho Pro AI voice box, $469.99 and $599.99 / $659.99 / $759.99 / $879.99. The cheapest version with a depth camera is Standard with a Pi 5 2 GB at $569.99. Kits without a board also lack the 64 GB microSD card. Amazon US (sold by Hiwonder-US) lists Standard with a Pi 5 4 GB at $629.99 and Advanced with a Pi 5 8 GB at $759.99.
AvailableVia SSH / web / bridgeROS 2LidarDepth cameraPi 5AckermannKit
≤ 1 weekShipping: ~1 wk (est.). Amazon US lists it sold by Hiwonder-US and shipped from Amazon, with delivery in about a week (Prime delivery shown for the Standard Pi 5 4 GB version). Hiwonder's shipping policy says orders are usually processed within 24 hours and shipped the next business day, and the store offers free shipping over $499. The ship-from location for store orders is not stated (China, unconfirmed). Amazon ↗
Remote control: ROS 2 Humble runs in Docker on Raspberry Pi OS with Ubuntu 22.04 on the robot. Hiwonder's course uses VNC to reach the robot's desktop, with a virtual machine for RViz on a PC.
Overview
An Ackermann-steered sibling of the MentorPi M1, sized for a desk and built around a Raspberry Pi 5. The Standard kit adds a Nuwa-HP60C depth camera to the lidar, and the course covers slam_toolbox, Nav2 and RTAB-Map 3D mapping and navigation. Car-like steering makes it a fit for autonomous driving lessons, though it cannot turn in place like a mecanum or tracked robot. The small 2,200 mAh battery and unpublished runtime and speed are limits, and the lidar model is listed two different ways on the store page.
Specifications
| Category | Wheeled rovers · Ready-made dev rovers |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024 |
| Country | China |
| Availability | Available |
| Programmability | Full SDK |
| Built-in autonomy | Navigates · Goes to places on its own, such as mapped rooms, waypoints or its charging dock |
| LLM support | Official LLM tools · MentorPi's Large AI Model Course covers ChatGPT-based voice control, vision language model tracking and voice-driven multi-point navigation. These lessons need the WonderEcho Pro voice box, which only the Advanced kit includes. Hiwonder MentorPi tutorials ↗ |
| MuJoCo simulation | None found · Nothing found. |
| NVIDIA Isaac simulation | None found · Nothing found. |
| Gazebo simulation | None found · The MentorPi course has a URDF model lesson, but no Gazebo chapter was found in its table of contents. Hiwonder MentorPi tutorials ↗ |
| Best for | Ages 14+ (estimated) |
| Vision sensors | Lidar, Depth camera, Camera |
| Actuators | DC / gear motors |
| Audio | Speaker, Microphone |
| Compute type | Raspberry Pi, Arduino / ESP32 / microcontroller |
| Remote control | Via SSH / web / bridge |
| Size | 21.3×15.9×15.7 cm (depth camera version), 1.2 kg |
| Drive | Ackermann steering with an LD-1501MG steering servo, rear 310 metal-gear motors with AB-phase quadrature encoders |
| Compute | Raspberry Pi 5 (2, 4, 8 or 16 GB, or none), plus Hiwonder's RRC Lite controller board |
| Vision | Angstrong Nuwa-HP60C binocular depth camera, 0.2–4 m, 640×480 depth and 1080p RGB at 20 fps (Standard and Advanced). Starter has a 640×480 wide-angle monocular camera |
| Lidar | COIN-D6 TOF lidar per the store text, but the store's spec table and a product image name an Oradar MS200 (model unconfirmed), range not published on the store page |
| Sensors | Wheel encoders, lidar, depth camera, WonderEcho Pro AI voice box with mic and speaker (Advanced only) |
| Runtime | Not published (7.4 V 2,200 mAh LiPo) |
| Speed | Not published |
| SDK | ROS 2 Humble (Docker), Python, C/C++, OpenCV and MediaPipe lessons, YOLOv5 training lessons (the store page mentions YOLOv11), slam_toolbox mapping, Nav2 navigation with AMCL and DWA, RTAB-Map 3D mapping and navigation with the depth camera, lidar obstacle avoidance and following, autonomous driving map lessons, WonderPi app |
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