Home robots
Household robots beyond the robot vacuum
Introduction
- Category
- Consumer robots for single chores or companionship: self-cleaning litter boxes, window cleaners, pet companions and roaming home cameras.
- What it does
- Each handles one job, such as sifting cat litter after each visit, wiping windows, or rolling around as a camera you drive from your phone.Source: [1] Whisker, [2] ECOVACS, [3] Enabot, [4] KEYi Tech
- Maturity
- On sale now from several makers; each model is a single-purpose device rather than a general helper.Source: [1] Whisker, [2] ECOVACS, [4] KEYi Tech, [3] Enabot
Products
- Price band
- $399 (ECOVACS WINBOT W2 PRO OMNI; Enabot models from $399) to $999 (top Enabot model) among our picks; Litter-Robot 4 is $699.Source: [2] ECOVACS, [3] Enabot, [1] Whisker
- Key specs
- Litter-Robot 4 is rated for up to four cats weighing 3 to 25 lb.Source: [1] Whisker
- Leading makers
- Whisker, ECOVACS, KEYi Tech and Enabot.Source: [1] Whisker, [2] ECOVACS, [4] KEYi Tech, [3] Enabot
Market
- Market size & growth
- We have not found a public market-size figure we trust, so we do not give one. One study sorted 10,072 owner reviews of home robots into 12 failure types.Source: [5] Shanee Honig et al., arXiv 2022
- Main uses
- Pet care, window cleaning, home monitoring and family play.Source: [1] Whisker, [2] ECOVACS, [3] Enabot, [4] KEYi Tech
Business
- Top business uses
- Home-robot setup and care service, and robot-assisted window cleaning. See the Business page. Open →