Home & Companionship
Companion and household robots for daily life.
Questions to answer before choosing
Use these three questions to define the job before comparing products.
- Is the main need companionship, education, telepresence or physical assistance?
- What privacy controls exist for cameras, microphones and cloud accounts?
- Can local support provide repairs, batteries and replacement parts?
When not to automate yet
Consider whether improving the current workflow would meet your needs first.
- One clear need: companionship, learning, remote presence or assistance
- Privacy boundaries for camera, microphone and cloud set deliberately
- Local access to repairs, batteries and spare parts
- What still works when the network or the cloud service stops
- Where recordings live, who can reach them and how to delete them
- Safety and help-seeking when a child or older adult mishandles it
- A replacement for human care
- Reliable movement in every home layout
- A promise of maintenance-free ownership
Three ways to solve the same problem
Choose the lowest layer that reliably removes the bottleneck.
Process first
Standardize the workflow, remove unnecessary steps and measure the bottleneck before buying technology.
Software automation
Use workflows, RPA or AI agents when the work is digital and the inputs and exceptions can be defined.
Physical robot
Use an arm, AMR, drone or humanoid when movement in the real world is the constraint to remove.
Tools for this scene · 8 tools
1X NEO
Humanoid Robots
Home humanoid with early-access autonomy and scheduled remote assistance
Announced · Pre-order
Unitree Go2
Service & Companion Robots
Quadruped robot with AIR, PRO, X and EDU variants
From $1600
Microduck
Humanoid Robots
25 cm open-source biped for reinforcement-learning experiments
Announced · Pre-order
LivingAI EMO
Service & Companion Robots
Desktop robot pet with movement, expressions and voice interaction
$279.00
Miko
Service & Companion Robots
AI companion robot for kids, blending education and entertainment.
$299.00 USD
LOVOT
Service & Companion Robots
Companion robot designed to be loved
From 18,413 yen/month (72 installments, Smart Plan) or 449,900 yen one-time plus monthly service fee
ARI
Humanoid Robots
Social robotics platform for interaction research and visitor assistance
Contact the vendor for pricing
temi
Service & Companion Robots
Telepresence robot for offices and healthcare
Contact the vendor for pricing