$339.90 – $1,179.90Yahboom store, October 2026. Standard (2 MP pan-tilt camera, no depth camera) $519.90 with RDK X5, $669.90 with Pi 5 8 GB, $699.90 with Jetson Nano 4 GB. Superior swaps in a Nuwa-HP60C depth camera, $659.90 with RDK X5 (cheapest version with a depth camera and a board), $809.90 with Pi 5, $839.90 with Jetson Nano, $1,159.90 with Orin Nano Super 8 GB. Ultimate adds a SLAMTEC C1 lidar in place of the T-mini Plus, $679.90 to $1,179.90. Kits without a board start at $339.90, and the Superior kit without a board is $479.90 (needs a Pi 5 8 GB). RDK X5 versions are only sold with the board. Battery and charger are included.
AvailableVia SSH / web / bridgeROS 2LidarDepth cameraAckermannRDK X5
Weeks+Shipping: ~1–2 wks (est.). Ships from Yahboom in Shenzhen, China. Yahboom's shipping policy says orders are usually processed within 24 hours and shipped the next business day, most arrive within 6 working days after dispatch, and orders over $499 ship free by DHL, UPS or FedEx. Import duties and taxes are paid by the buyer. No Amazon US listing for the plain A1 was confirmed (search showed only an A1 bundle with a robotic arm). Yahboom ↗
Remote control: ROS 2 Humble runs on the robot's board (in Docker on the Pi 5 and Jetson Nano, native on RDK X5 and Orin). A laptop connects over SSH, VNC or ROS 2 networking, and a mapping and navigation phone app is available.
Overview
Yahboom's 2025 Ackermann rover, aimed at students who want car-like steering for path planning and autonomous-driving lessons. Only the Superior and Ultimate kits have the Nuwa-HP60C depth camera, and that camera drops the pan-tilt mount of the Standard kit. The course is broad, covering SLAM, Nav2, RTAB-Map, YOLOv11 and LLM-driven navigation, though some YOLO and driving chapters target Orin or RDK X5 boards. Ackermann steering cannot turn in place, which makes tight indoor following harder than on the mecanum ROSMASTER M1. Speed is not published.
Specifications
| Category | Wheeled rovers · Ready-made dev rovers |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025 |
| 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 · Yahboom's A1 course has text and voice LLM chapters built on Dify and OpenRouter, where a decision model plans and an execution model calls robot functions such as SLAM navigation, visual following, line patrol and depth-camera distance questions. Offline models (Llama 3.2, Qwen3, DeepSeek-R1 and others) are also covered. Yahboom tutorials ↗ |
| MuJoCo simulation | None found · Nothing found. |
| NVIDIA Isaac simulation | None found · Nothing found. |
| Gazebo simulation | None found · Yahboom's store page says the A1 is compatible with Gazebo and RViz, and the course has a general ROS 2 Gazebo lesson and a URDF chapter, but no A1-specific Gazebo simulation package was confirmed. Yahboom tutorials ↗ |
| Best for | Ages 14+ (estimated) |
| Vision sensors | Lidar, Depth camera, Camera |
| Actuators | DC / gear motors |
| Audio | Speaker, Microphone |
| Compute type | Raspberry Pi, Other ARM chip, NVIDIA Jetson, Arduino / ESP32 / microcontroller |
| Remote control | Via SSH / web / bridge |
| Size | 27.8×20.1×17.5 cm (Standard/Superior), 2.23–2.29 kg |
| Drive | Ackermann steering, 2 rear 520 encoder metal motors (1:56) and a 20 kg metal steering servo, rubber tires |
| Compute | Raspberry Pi 5 8 GB, RDK X5 8 GB, Jetson Nano B01 4 GB or Jetson Orin Nano Super 8 GB, plus Yahboom's STM32F103 ROS control board |
| Vision | 2 MP camera on a pan-tilt mount (Standard), Angstrong Nuwa-HP60C structured-light depth camera 0.2–4 m (Superior/Ultimate) |
| Lidar | YDLIDAR T-mini Plus 360° ToF lidar 0.05–12 m (Standard/Superior), SLAMTEC C1 0.05–12 m (Ultimate) |
| Sensors | ICM20948 9-axis IMU, wheel encoders, OLED display, AI voice module with 2 MEMS microphones and a speaker |
| Runtime | About 3 h (12.6 V 6,000 mAh battery) |
| Speed | Not published |
| SDK | ROS 2 Humble, Python, Gmapping, Cartographer and slam_toolbox SLAM, Navigation2 single- and multi-point navigation, RTAB-Map mapping and navigation, depth camera ranging and following, MediaPipe, YOLOv11 (Orin, Pi, Jetson Nano and RDK X5 chapters), Dify-based LLM text and voice interaction, autonomous driving lessons with a track map sold separately |
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