en.Wedoany.com Reported - Chinese robotics company Vita Dynamics has launched a quadruped robot development platform, the "Big Head EDU Edition" (Vbot EDU), targeting commercial services, robotics laboratories, enterprise-level R&D, and tech enthusiasts. The product integrates computing power, perception, motion, and agent capabilities into a complete base, allowing developers to directly develop scene-specific applications using a robot dog that already possesses autonomous movement and interaction capabilities.
The quadruped robot industry is transitioning from the technology validation phase to large-scale application. According to data from the GGII (Gaogong Robot Industry Research Institute), China's consumer-grade quadruped robot sales reached 37,700 units in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 289.67%, with a market size of approximately 561 million yuan, up 93.28% year-on-year. It is projected that by 2030, China's consumer-grade quadruped robot sales could approach 700,000 units, with a compound annual growth rate of 79.05% from 2025 to 2030. Vita Dynamics' previously launched consumer product, Big Head BoBo, received cumulative orders of 6,540 units during its initial pre-sale period, with pre-order sales nearing 100 million yuan.
The Vbot EDU product launched by Vita Dynamics comes standard with 128 TOPS edge computing power, depth binocular cameras, and a 16-line LiDAR, offering capabilities for intelligent following, pathfinding, mapping, and obstacle avoidance.
The entire machine adopts a full-stack modular hardware expansion architecture, with standardized universal expansion interfaces reserved for adding external peripherals such as additional environmental perception sensors, emergency lighting modules, communication relay accessories, and ranging gimbals. On the software development side, the platform opens ROS 2 interface definitions, provides a GitHub access guide, and comes standard with USB-C, 24V DC, and CAN interfaces.
The Vbot EDU also supports the installation of expansion hardware such as robotic arms, enabling flexible interaction operations during movement. In technical demonstrations, the robot dog can simultaneously walk and pull curtains, and handle long-duration, multi-step tasks like opening a cat food can or using a drum washing machine. The R&D team has achieved coordinated control between the quadruped chassis and the robotic arm, and the Vbot EDU platform supports mainstream VLA (Vision-Language-Action) and WAM (Whole-Arm Motion) models.
Vita Dynamics stated that it will continue to open up the robot's core capabilities, improve the software development kit (SDK), development interfaces, and application support, and work with scenario solution providers, industry clients, developers, and educational research partners to build an open ecosystem.
