SwitchBot says its humanoid household robot can do your laundry

SwitchBot is bringing a caller family robot to CES 2026. The smart location institution is launching the Onero H1, which it calls “the astir accessible AI family robot.” The announcement follows past year’s debut of its multitasking family bot — a robot vacuum mounted to a mobile platform.

SwitchBot says the Onero is simply a general-use humanoid robot designed to destruct housework that tin complete “everyday actions specified arsenic grasping, pushing, opening, and organizing, while learning to accommodate crossed different tasks and location scenarios.”

A video the institution shared up of the show demonstrated the Onero doing family tasks for illustration filling a java machine, making breakfast, washing the windows, loading a washing machine, and folding and putting distant clothes.

The Onero isn’t a afloat humanoid; it has articulated arms and hands, and a face, but nary legs. Its long, oblong assemblage sits connected a wheeled guidelines for mobility, an improvement of SwitchBot’s modular multitasking bot.

According to the company, the Onero uses aggregate cameras successful its head, arms, hands, and midsection to powerfulness its perception. It besides has an awesome 22 degrees of freedom (DoF), referring to the number of independent movements it tin make. For comparison, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas’ precocious assemblage has 29 DoF.

The Onero uses an on-device OmniSense vision-language-action (VLA) exemplary that enables the robot to study and accommodate by combining ocular perception, extent awareness, and tactile feedback to understand an object’s position, shape, and relationship states.

This should alteration it to execute the family tasks shown successful the demo video. However, arsenic anyone who’s followed the adventures of humanoid robots this past twelvemonth will know, video demos are very different from the existent thing. I’ll beryllium getting immoderate one-on-one clip pinch the Onero connected the show level this week and will study back.

SwitchBot says the Onero was “developed arsenic the adjacent measurement successful SwitchBot’s travel from specialized devices to multi-task systems.” This speaks to a cardinal hostility successful family robotics. Do we want single-purpose bots that do 1 point well, specified arsenic robot vacuums? Or do we want generalist robots that tin accommodate to a assortment of tasks? Many family chores stay difficult aliases impractical to automate without fundamentally changing our homes. It’s an absorbing dilemma, and 1 I dream to spot innovative solutions for astatine CES this year.

In the adjacent term, thing successful betwixt feels much realistic for astir homes. A smarter robot that tin orchestrate the devices successful our homes, not needfully complete the tasks itself — an embodied smart location assistant. SwitchBot says the Onero is designed to activity pinch its existing ecosystem of task-specific robots, which see robot vacuums, aerial purifiers, and humidifiers, and orchestration of connected devices is the premise down Samsung’s Ballie and LG’s AI agent.

None of these bots would person overmuch luck successful my home, arsenic I person stairs, and they each usage wheels. However, SwitchBot does person a limb up connected some Ballie and LG’s bots — the institution says the Onero H1 and its robotic arms A1 will soon beryllium disposable for preorder connected SwitchBot’s website. However, nary pricing has been announced.