Putting things away
Clearing surfaces, returning things to where they live, loading and emptying the dishwasher, folding what came out of the dryer.
In development
Meet the
Human Robot
A second pair of hands, for your home or your business. It walks, carries, grasps, and uses the tools you already own — and it asks when it isn’t sure. Nothing about your space has to change first.
No deposit, no ship date. We’ll write to you when there’s a machine worth showing.
At home
The jobs that
eat your evening
None of these need a robot that can do everything. They need one that can reliably do this.
Carrying
Shopping in from the car. Bins to the kerb. A full basket up two flights. Anything heavy, awkward, or on a shelf you need a stool to reach.
Fetch and hold
The second pair of hands you need for ten seconds and never have. Holding the other end. Passing the tool. Getting the thing from the other room.
Staying independent
For people whose reach or grip has changed, the difference between managing at home and not is often just the high shelf, the heavy pan, the dropped item.
While you’re out
Let the dog out. Check the hob is off. Take a delivery in off the step. A body in the house is worth more than another camera in it.
The boring half
You cook, it preps and clears. You garden, it hauls. Splitting a job is usually more useful than handing the whole thing over.
At work
Buildings built
for people
Most workplaces can’t be economically redesigned around machines. Doorways, trolleys, shelving, handles, stairs, benches at human height — a human-shaped robot is the one that fits without a refit.
Retail & grocery
Overnight shelf replenishment, backroom-to-floor runs, tote breakdown, facing and tidying, trolley collection.
Warehouse & fulfilment
Piece picking into totes, moving cartons between stations, decanting, staging pallets — in aisles built for people.
Light manufacturing
Machine tending, loading fixtures, part transfer between cells, inspection handling, end-of-line packing.
Hospitality & food
Bussing and dish runs, prep transport, stock rotation, closing-down routines — the tasks that make a rota hard to fill.
Care & clinical support
Supply runs, linen and waste, room turnover, fetching equipment — giving trained staff their time back for the work only they can do.
Facilities & trades
Material moves on site, tool retrieval, cleanup, holding and positioning during the jobs that normally take two people.
How we’d rather sell it
Not as a headcount replacement with a number attached. The Human Robot is most useful on the shift nobody wants and the task that injures people slowly — repetitive lifting, awkward reaches, the fifth hour of carrying.
We would rather put one machine on one well-chosen task in your building and show you the numbers than sell you a fleet against a spreadsheet. When pilots open, the waitlist hears first.
What it does —
and what it doesn’t
Robotics has a long history of demo videos that never became products. So here’s the honest version, in two columns.
Designed to
- Walk on flat floors, thresholds and low steps
- Grasp four ways — a firm grip, a hook, a pinch, and basic fine work
- Carry with one or both arms, and adjust its balance for the load
- Open doors, press buttons, pull handles, push a trolley
- Pick up the tools already in your building rather than needing its own
- Listen, speak, and take an instruction in plain language
- Check that it actually did the thing, instead of assuming
- Stop and ask when it isn’t confident, or when the action matters
- Charge itself from an ordinary wall socket
Not designed to
- Run, jump, or catch anything thrown at it
- Climb ladders or work at height
- Lift a person, or take any weight a person depends on
- Work unsupervised around small children
- Handle food preparation to a commercial hygiene standard
- Do delicate assembly at watchmaker tolerances
- Work outdoors in rain, or on loose or uneven ground
- Replace a trained clinician, carer, or tradesperson
- Work all day without charging
That right-hand column will get shorter over time. Things move across it when the testing says so — not when the marketing calendar does.
How it works
Three things
make it different
One engine, not thirty
Most robots put a separate motor and gearbox at every joint, thirty times over — which is most of why they cost what they cost. Ours puts one pump in the chest and pipes the power out to soft muscles at each joint. The expensive part is in the middle, and there’s only one of it.
Soft muscles, not stiff gears
Those muscles pull like tendons and give way when they meet something unexpected, instead of grinding through it. It also keeps the weight in the body rather than out at the wrists — better for balance, and better for whoever is standing next to it.
It checks its work
The robot confirms it actually did what you asked — that the cup made it to the sink, that the box is really on the shelf. When it isn’t sure, it stops and asks rather than guessing confidently.
For the technically curious The muscles are water hydraulics driven by a shared pressure source, with local controllers closing the fast loops. That architecture is developed by our parent engineering effort, Limboid Robotics, which publishes the pressures, control rates, test data and open problems in full.
Safety & privacy
It’s going to live
in your kitchen
A machine with hands, cameras and microphones has to earn that. These aren’t things we plan to add later.
Stopping isn’t software
A separate safety system holds power over the moving parts no matter what the rest of the robot thinks. Anything serious cuts the power in hardware, in one step.
It gives way
Soft muscle yields when it meets something it didn’t expect. Mechanical limits back that up, and the heavy mass sits in the body rather than swinging on the end of an arm.
It works offline
Stopping never waits on your wi-fi, our servers, or an AI answering in time. If the connection drops mid-task, the robot finishes safely or puts things down and stays put.
What it sees stays home
Faces, voices, the layout of your rooms and what you own are processed on the robot itself wherever we can. What does leave is kept to a minimum, and we’d rather explain each exception than bury it.
You can tell when it’s listening
Whether the cameras and microphones are live, and whether anyone is operating it remotely, shows on the robot itself — visible to everyone in the room, not just whoever owns the account.
It keeps receipts
Remote sessions, safety overrides and software updates are written to a log you can read and nobody can quietly edit. Updates are signed and checked before they run.
Questions
The ones
people ask
What will it cost?
We don’t have a price we can stand behind yet, and we’d rather say that than invent one. The target is that a Human Robot costs less than a car — not more than a house. When we publish a number it will come from a real bill of materials, not a rounding of what we hope.
When can I get one?
There is no ship date, and we are not taking deposits. The robot is in development. The waitlist is how you find out first — including about the parts that don’t work yet.
How big is it?
Roughly the size of an adult, and it fits through a standard doorway. It’s deliberately not made to look like a person — smooth, plain, and obviously a machine, with a screen for a face so it can show you what it’s about to do.
Do I need a smart home, or special wiring?
No. It charges from an ordinary wall socket, and it’s designed to work in the building you already have — using the handles, shelves and tools that are already there.
What happens when something breaks?
It’s built out of many cheap, repeatable parts rather than a few sealed expensive ones, which is the whole point of the design. A muscle or a valve should be a part you swap, not a reason to send the robot away.
Is it safe around children and pets?
It’s designed to be compliant and to stop in hardware rather than software. That said, we don’t intend it to work unsupervised around small children, and we’ve put that in writing above rather than in a manual nobody reads.
Get in line
No deposit and no obligation. You’ll hear from us when there’s a machine worth showing you, when pilots open, and when we have a price we can actually stand behind.