Rice Robotics has launched TOMO, a wheel-based humanoid designed for classrooms and supervised STEM learning. Axonex AI announced the robot on October 15 as Rice Robotics Hong Kong joined a new embodied-AI training and validation hub operated with Hong Kong’s FLAIR robotics center.

TOMO has an expressive face, an interactive chest display and two-finger parallel grippers. The company says it is intended for interactive reading, programming, STEM exercises, supervised robotics exploration, light book handling and incident alerts. Independent coverage of the announcement confirms those stated classroom functions.

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The launch lands in a robotics market moving beyond demonstrations toward narrower real-world jobs. BitcoinVersus.Tech has recently tracked DexForce training humanoids with synthetic data, NEURA building multimodal robot intelligence, and our Top 7 Humanoid Robots in 2026.

CGTN examines the dexterous-hand and manipulation technologies that help embodied-AI robots interact with real objects.

TOMO is not being presented as a general-purpose replacement for teachers. Its more practical near-term role is as a mobile robotics platform students can talk to, program and physically interact with while learning how sensors, software and manipulation systems work together.

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