Even though the market size is still small at thismoment, applied fields of human-friendly robots are graduallyspreading from the manufacturing industry to the others as oneof the important components to support an aging society.However, a great challenge is presenting in developed countrieswhere a considerable reduction of the number of students isexpected. Therefore, novel educational robot platforms shouldbe conceived. In particular, the author proposes the basiccharacteristics for the next generation of educational robots.Furthermore, the integration of two cost-affordable roboticplatforms is proposed and its potentiality is shown