The Present and Future of Education in Humanoid Robotics 📚
- Humandroid
- 4 days ago
- 5 min read
Universities across Argentina and Latin America are redefining what it means to prepare professionals for the future and humanoid robots are already at the center of that transformation.
There comes a moment when a technology stops being a novelty and becomes infrastructure. For humanoid robotics, that moment is approaching and it’s arriving through universities across the region.
In recent months, at Humandroid, we’ve started to observe a pattern that genuinely excites us: educational institutions of all types and scales national, provincial, private universities, and technical institutes are beginning to explore how to integrate humanoid robots not as showroom curiosities, but as core tools for professional training.
This is not an isolated phenomenon. It’s a movement. And Latin America, with its growing technical education ecosystem and strong university networks, has the potential to become a key player in this transition.
A key force driving this movement alongside Humandroid has been Néstor Ríos, Business Developer at Big Dipper our official Unitree hardware sponsor. Néstor understood early on that bringing robots into universities wasn’t just a commercial opportunity; it was a structural bet on the future of the regional ecosystem. His commitment to making hardware accessible to educational institutions has been one of the decisive factors behind much of what we describe below. In this effort, Humandroid and Big Dipper are not just partners they are co-builders of something that didn’t exist before.
“The question is no longer whether humanoid robots will change work. The question is who will train the people who program, operate, and train them.”
🇦🇷 UTN San Francisco: Training the Educators of the Future with NVIDIA
One of the most strategic academic partnerships we’ve built in Argentina is with UTN San Francisco. We signed a formal collaboration agreement to support the training of university professors under NVIDIA’s learning programs one of Humandroid’s most important global technology partners.
The program is designed so that professors learn how to operate and train humanoid robots not through abstract theory, but with real robots and real tools. The curriculum includes operational fundamentals, visual-language-action (VLA) model training techniques, and teleoperation protocols for high-quality data collection.
What makes this program particularly unique is its scalability: it is designed to grow as an NVIDIA-sponsored initiative, making it a potentially replicable model across universities in Argentina and the broader Latin American region.
We start with educators because we believe high-quality education is built from those who teach.
🇦🇷 Universidad Siglo 21: A Unitree G1 Is Already in the Classroom
With Universidad Siglo 21, the story began naturally: we introduced the technology, and almost immediately, they knew they wanted to be part of it. Innovative institutions recognize opportunity when they see it and they act quickly.
A key player in making this possible was Nestor Rios from Big Dipper, the official hardware provider for Unitree, who enabled access to the robot now operating within the university. Without real hardware, there is no real learning.
The first tangible outcome of this collaboration is the creation of a Humanoid Robotics Club a space where students from multiple disciplines can experiment, fail, learn, and build.
This club is not the end goal; it is part of a broader academic ecosystem where robots are conceived as learning infrastructure and experimentation platforms. In this context, Universidad Siglo 21 already offers a degree in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and is continuously evolving its academic portfolio around these technologies.
🇦🇷 UPC: The First Diploma in Humanoid Robot Mechanics
The Universidad Provincial de Córdoba is building something unprecedented in Argentina: a formal diploma in humanoid robot mechanics.
The program combines theory with hands-on training, recognizing that real expertise is built through direct interaction with hardware diagnosing failures, working with actuators, and developing operational intuition.
It targets a new professional profile emerging across Latin America: specialists who understand both the physical systems and real-world operation of humanoid robots.
🇦🇷 ITBA: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Humanoid Robotics
In December 2025, we signed an academic collaboration agreement with ITBA based on a core idea: humanoid robotics is inherently multidisciplinary.
It combines engineering, computer science, design, behavioral science, and business.
By enabling different academic programs to approach robotics from their own perspectives, this model aligns education with how these systems will actually be deployed in industry.
🇦🇷 TGN & UTN Buenos Aires: Industry Driving Talent Formation
At UTN Buenos Aires, a different dynamic emerged: industry leading education.
TGN, one of Humandroid’s early clients, assembled a team of interns to work directly with humanoid robots. This reflects a broader shift: companies are no longer waiting for universities to adapt — they are actively shaping the talent pipeline themselves.
This move says a lot. It shows that the corporate world is already looking for talent trained in this technology and is not willing to wait for university curricula to catch up on their own. TGN accelerated the process: identifying high-potential students, connecting them with real robots, and placing them in real industrial environments.
This model where industry acts as the driver of university-level training in humanoid robotics is likely to scale rapidly in the coming years. Corporate demand for specialized humanoid robotics talent already exists. Academic supply is still being built. And in that gap, TGN and UTN Buenos Aires are building a bridge together.
🇵🇪 Universidad de Sipán: The First University Training Center for Humanoid Robots in Latin America
So far, we’ve focused on Argentina. But this movement has already crossed borders.
The Universidad de Sipán, in Peru, is building something that does not yet exist in any other university in the region: the first university training center for humanoid robots in Latin America. And they are doing it seriously with four Ubtech Tienkung robots operating under Robots ID.
Four robots in a single academic environment is not a pilot. It is infrastructure. It is an institutional decision to become a regional reference point in a technology that is still in its early stages within academia. Universidad de Sipán understood that those who build training capabilities today will have a massive advantage when the rest of the market begins to demand them.
This center will not only train professionals in operating and programming humanoid robots, but will also generate high-quality training data one of the most valuable assets in the intelligent robotics ecosystem. A key driver behind this initiative has been Percy Castro, Strategic International Education Manager and international researcher, who has played a critical role in pushing this vision forward within the university. His leadership reflects a broader shift: institutions are no longer passively observing this technology they are actively positioning themselves to lead its adoption.
It is the most advanced model we have seen in Latin American academia, and a clear signal of where this is heading.
From Humandroid
At Humandroid, our role in all of this is not only technological it is about partnership.
We believe that institutions that choose to integrate humanoid robotics into their curriculum today will be training the most in-demand professionals of the next economic cycle. And we want to stand alongside each of them in that process.
If you are part of an educational institution and want to explore how to incorporate humanoid robotics into your academic offering whether through a workshop, a club, a diploma, or a full degree — we are ready to talk.
The education of the future cannot be built without the robots of the future.
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