The Future of Home Robotics is Here
We're building the next generation of consumer robotics—devices that don't just respond to commands, are delightful, proactive companions in your home. Our robots combine movement, personality, and intelligence to deliver utility and delight.
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The Abilities of a Great Home Robot
We've been living with "smart speakers" for over ten years - they are static, impersonal, and reactive. What's the weather? Set a timer. To transform these objects into home robots that deliver utility and delight, they need fundamentally new abilities.
Movement and Expression
Physical presence creates an emotional connection and a spark of life.
Personal Recognition
Your dog knows who you are from the sound of your voice. Your home assistant should too.
Contextual Memory
Our robots remember what matters—past conversations, important moments dates—creating continuity that deepens relationships over time.
Proactive Conversation
Our robots break from the command-response framework and will ask thoutghful questions based on past conversations.
Independent Voice
We reject sycophantic chatbots. Our assistant provides genuine feedback, challenges assumptions, and helps people grow.
Internet-Grounded Responses
Responses draw from the web when needed so your robot stays up to date.
See Our Ugly Baby* Robot in Action
* We know our baby is ugly. It needs industrial design, refinement, and more love. But it's got the right bones. (Read about Pixar's philosophy of protecting and nurturing "Ugly Baby" projects here.)
Highlights
Movement
Robot can turn around to face users and move up and down. Enough to be able to do a little dance.
Expression
A screen allows the robot to acknowledge the emotion of users with its own expression and add delightful punctuation to conversations.
Recognition + Memory
By recognizing individuals and remembering past interactions, our robots build a continuous narrative, evolving from a device into robot at home.
Why This Form Factor Wins
Or "Why We Aren't Working on Humanoids"
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Stationary: Matches User Behavior
Consumers already place smart speakers in locations central to their home. We're enhancing a proven pattern, not creating a new one.
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Plugged-in: Enables Utility and Delight
Always available power enables movement, expression, and internet access that can deliver useful answers to any question - without the nuisance of recharging.
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Robot Shape: Avoids Uncanny Valleys
It looks like a robot because it is a robot. It's not trying to be a human or a dog. It's appearance sets the right expectations avoiding user discomfort and fear.
Market Opportunity
100 million smart speakers are sold annually, with 60% concentrated in the United States. Despite massive adoption, the average selling price remains stuck at $70—a reflection of commodity features and limited differentiation.
100M
Annual Device Shipments
Global smart speaker market volume
$8B
Total Market Size
Global revenue opportunity
60%
U.S. Share of Market
Concentrated adoption in key market
$70
Average Price Point
Current commoditized pricing
The opportunity: We can justify a significantly higher price point by delivering genuine advancement in both utility and delight. Ongoing usage powered by LLMs creates opportunity for subscription or inclusion in "AI" or "One" bundles.
Pricing
Example
Pollen Robotics' Reachy Mini retails at $449 as a DIY kit. It is targeted at developers who must program it to add functinality.
Target
Based on our current bill of materials, we estimate we can hit a $150 price point at scale with 50% gross margin — positioned between commodity assistants and high cost mobile robots and well below and humanoid products which will be $5,000+.

Proof point: Even as a DIY Kit, Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini sold $1M in its first five days validating the form factor and willingness to to pay.
What's next
More and Smarter Movement
Additional axes of movement to enhance visual interest.
Track and face user location using infrared.
Improve Industrial Design
Polish design and make it appear more friendly with animal inspired touches
Add Frequently Used Tools
Add tools to support most common home assistant use cases (tell time, set timer, play music, adjust volume)
Enhance Trust with Users
Add one-touch mute button.
App to easily review, delete memories, and users
Let's Build the Future
We're at an inflection point. All of the necessary technology exists but the hard part is putting it together in a thoughtful way that people welcome into their homes.
The sweetest sound to a person is their own name. We're building robots that know yours—and use that knowledge to make your life a little better every single day.