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
A short pause can prevent an expensive pilot with no owner or measurable outcome.
- A repeatable task with a clear owner and measurable outcome
- A stable process with known inputs, outputs and exceptions
- A pilot that can be observed safely and compared with today’s baseline
- The baseline cost, volume and error rate before automation
- Who owns exceptions, maintenance and the final decision
- How data, permissions and failures are recorded
- A process that changes before the team can measure it
- A project with no owner or acceptance criteria
- A technology purchase made only because the demo looks exciting
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 · 7 tools
Microduck
Humanoid Robots
Microduck is a 25 cm open-source biped robot from Pollen Robotics that you train yourself with reinforcement learning.
Public purchase / signup
Miko
Service & Companion Robots
AI companion robot for kids, blending education and entertainment.
LivingAI EMO
Service & Companion Robots
Desktop AI robot pet with emotional intelligence and interactive features.
Unitree Go2
Service & Companion Robots
Quadruped robot dog from $1,600
temi
Service & Companion Robots
Telepresence robot for offices and healthcare
LOVOT
Service & Companion Robots
Companion robot designed to be loved
1X NEO
Humanoid Robots
Home humanoid you can pre-order