SwitchBot brings a humanoid house robotic to CES

SwitchBot is bringing a brand new family robotic to CES 2026. The good house firm is launching the Onero H1, which it calls “the most accessible AI household robot.” The announcement follows final 12 months’s debut of its multitasking family bot — a robotic vacuum mounted to a cell platform.

SwitchBot says the Onero is a general-use humanoid robotic designed to get rid of house responsibilities that may full “everyday actions such as grasping, pushing, opening, and organizing, while learning to adapt across different tasks and home scenarios.”

A video the corporate shared forward of the present demonstrated the Onero doing family duties like filling a espresso machine, making breakfast, washing the home windows, loading a washer, and folding and placing away garments.

The Onero isn’t a full humanoid; it has articulated arms and arms, and a face, however no legs. Its lengthy, rectangular physique sits on a wheeled base for mobility, an evolution of SwitchBot’s modular multitasking bot.

According to the corporate, the Onero makes use of a number of cameras in its head, arms, arms, and midsection to energy its notion. It additionally has a formidable 22 degrees of freedom (DoF), referring to the variety of unbiased actions it will possibly make. For comparability, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas’ upper body has 29 DoF.

The Onero makes use of an on-device OmniSense vision-language-action (VLA) mannequin that allows the robotic to study and adapt by combining visible notion, depth consciousness, and tactile suggestions to grasp an object’s place, form, and interplay states.

This ought to allow it to carry out the family duties proven within the demo video. However, as anybody who’s adopted the adventures of humanoid robots this previous 12 months will know, video demos are very completely different from the actual factor. I’ll be getting some one-on-one time with the Onero on the present ground this week and can report again.

SwitchBot says the Onero was “developed as the next step in SwitchBot’s journey from specialized devices to multi-task systems.” This speaks to a central rigidity in family robotics. Do we would like single-purpose bots that do one factor effectively, corresponding to robotic vacuums? Or do we would like generalist robots that may adapt to quite a lot of duties? Many family chores stay tough or impractical to automate with out essentially altering our houses. It’s an attention-grabbing dilemma, and one I hope to see modern options for at CES this 12 months.

In the close to time period, one thing in between feels extra real looking for many houses. A wiser robotic that may orchestrate the units in our houses, not essentially full the duties itself — an embodied good house assistant. SwitchBot says the Onero is designed to work with its present ecosystem of task-specific robots, which embody robotic vacuums, air purifiers, and humidifiers, and orchestration of related units is the premise behind Samsung’s Ballie and LG’s AI agent.

None of those bots would have a lot luck in my house, as I’ve stairs, they usually all use wheels. However, SwitchBot does have a leg up on each Ballie and LG’s bots — the corporate says the Onero H1 and its robotic arms A1 will quickly be accessible for preorder on SwitchBot’s web site. However, no pricing has been introduced.