Mint Primer | Honey, I’m home: Is this the era of domestic robots?

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas saw one beat stand out—robotics. Home robots were showcased mowing lawns, cleaning floors, organizing pools and even adjusting home lighting.

Are home robots finally here for all of us? Mint explains: Sure! The interesting picks include a bartender named ‘Adam’ from Richtech Robotics, an infant—replicating social interaction robot called ‘Mirumi’, ChatGPT-backed personal assistant ‘Looi’ by Tangible Future, a near-humanoid home assistant ‘Mirokai’ by Enchanted Tools, home-chores assistant R2D3 by OpenDroids, autonomous lamp ‘Mi-Mo’ by Jizai, and even a projector robot named ‘Ballie’ by Samsung. Most are designed to serve tasks that humans do through the day, and each showcases not just automation—but also a degree of interactiveness that was previously largely kept only for concepts. Very much so.

For starters, one of the biggest factors in this year’s showcase of robots at CES 2025 is the level of interactions that many of these bots can pull off. For instance, Mirokai features an animated face and looks nearly humanoid—and can be programmed to interact with you, or even be taught any task based on an ‘if-this-then-that’ logic. With generative AI models powering actions such as speech and interaction on robots, most of these robots are now better prepared to feature inside homes since they are no longer functional machines and appliances built for a specific task.

Mirumi is slated to retail soon at $70. Looi, meanwhile, is already available at $169, while the Mi-Mo lamp robot’s retail price starts at $3,500. The full-scale humanoids are more expensive, with Mirokai and R2D3 priced at $40,000 and $60,000 respectively.