UBTech Robotics · China · Desktop
Yanshee
The UBTech Yanshee is a 37 cm, 2 kg open-source humanoid desktop robot built for AI and STEM education, first launched in 2018 and still sold through education resellers in 2026.
$2,199
Verified last monthDelivered to United States: from $2,199 at Ednology Marketplace
What is in the crate
5 included|5 not included
No hands, none offered
Yanshee has articulated arms but no hands, fingers, or grippers. The arms are used for gestures, dance, and posing, not for grasping or manipulating objects. Payload manipulation is not a design goal. Users who want an end effector 3D-print their own or attach third-party tools.
In the crate
Reality check
This is a 37 cm classroom teaching robot with no hands and about an hour of battery: it will delight students learning to code and do computer vision, but it will not fetch, carry, or do any real-world work.
Can you get one, and what will it cost?
A planning estimate with machine, freight, duty, and tax shown separately.
Yes: a seller in the United States lists it, so you buy it without importing it yourself.
US authorization: FCC ID 2AHJX-YANSHEE, granted 7 August 2018: authorized before the 28 July 2026 cutoff for foreign-made robots, so it can still be imported and sold in the US.
The maker publishes no price for the Yanshee, so there is no import estimate to United States. A seller in the United States does list it, and that price is the delivered figure here.
Lowest delivered price
$2,199
Ednology Marketplace, a seller in the United States
Listed price, before any sales tax. Confirm stock and delivery with the seller.
Import requirements for United StatesConformity, battery shipping, paperwork, and source documents. Review before ordering.
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Catalog checked 2026-09
Individuals and companies can inquire. Confirm the configuration, stock, and delivery with the seller.
Sold as a STEM/AI education product to schools, universities, and individuals. No approval, license, or business account required. Widely stocked by education-robotics resellers rather than sold direct-to-consumer by UBTech.
Price notes: Street prices vary widely by reseller and region. US: $2,199 in stock (Ednology). UK: £1,579 excl. VAT, £1,894.80 incl. VAT (RoboSavvy, checked 3 Oct 2026). Romania/EU: RON 14,500 (RoboSteam, listed as pre-order, roughly EUR 2,900). Practical EU range once VAT and markup are included is roughly EUR 1,900 to 2,900 depending on reseller. Some EU resellers (Leobotics, Robotistan) list it quote-only or show a placeholder price, so confirm the live figure before ordering. No official single MSRP is published by UBTech.
$2,199
Listed purchase price
- RoboSavvy (opens in a new tab)
European Union
UK reseller. GBP 1,579 excl. VAT (GBP 1,894.80 incl. VAT). Ships to UK and EU.
Request a quote
Price not published
- RoboSteam (opens in a new tab)
European Union
Romania/EU reseller. Listed at RON 14,500 (about EUR 2,900), shown as pre-order. Box includes robot, charger, travel case, manual, 1-year education platform, curriculum.
How the Yanshee rates
Editorial ratings based on listed specifications and sales availability. They do not measure task performance, autonomy, or reliability.
- Class
- Hobby kitAn entry-level kit or small robot for experimentation. Assembly, software access, and capabilities vary.
- CapabilityHardware specification indicators
- 2/5
- Baseline: any humanoid+1
- Degrees of freedom: 17 DOF+0.5
- Dexterity: no hands, none offered0
- Scale: 37 cm tall0
Key specifications
Height
37 cm
Width
19.2 cm
Depth
10.6 cm
Weight
2.05 kg
Degrees of freedom
17
Battery
n/a
Payload
n/a
Top speed
n/a
Understand before you buy
Size to scale
Drawn next to a 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) person. Every robot on the site uses this same reference, so you can trust the comparison at a glance.
Yanshee: 37 cm / 1 ft 3 in, 2.05 kg
Footprint: 19.2 cm wide x 10.6 cm deep
About the Yansheebackground, hardware and buying reality
It packs 17 servos, an 8 MP camera, a full sensor suite (gyroscope, temperature, humidity, pressure, infrared), and an onboard user-accessible Raspberry Pi 3B running Raspbian. Out of the box it walks, dances, recognizes faces and voices, and takes voice commands via a free app with Blockly programming, so a non-coder gets value on day one. Its real purpose is the open platform underneath: students program it in Python, C/C++, Java, or Blockly and integrate ROS. It has arms but no hands or grippers, no autonomy, and a single ~1-hour battery. Think of it as a programmable robotics teaching tool, not a working humanoid that manipulates objects.
What it does on day onewith zero programming
Charge it, install the free Yanshee app (iOS/Android), and out of the box it walks, gets up, dances, and runs preset motions; responds to voice commands; does face, image, and voice recognition; reads its onboard sensors (gyroscope, temperature, humidity, pressure, infrared); and speaks and answers simple questions. You can drive all of this and do Blockly (drag-and-drop) programming with zero coding.
Best for: Schools, universities, and self-directed learners who want an affordable, fully open humanoid platform to teach robotics, computer vision, voice AI, and ROS. Ideal for a classroom set or a maker who wants to program a walking biped in Python without building hardware from scratch.
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