Physical AI, with a social life

Robots are getting personal.

We track robot pets, home companions and human-form robots: what exists, what they actually do, what they remember and what you can buy in Britain.

Realbotix human-form social robot Aria
Realbotix AriaEarlier social-robot configuration. The maker now promotes Echo through a waitlist.
Photo: Realbotix
Tiny desk robot, robot dog and seated adult male humanoid at different scales in a living room.
Three scales of companionship. AI-generated concepts.

Find a robot to buy

Start with desk companions, robot pets or home robots, and check the UK route.

Explore the buying guide →
Fictional female humanoid in a cobalt jumper beside a rainy window and copper reading lamp.
Company after dark. AI-generated companion concept.

Adult companions · 18+

Compare sex robots, moving heads and announced romantic hardware.

Prices and reality checks →
Small expressive ivory desk robot beside a blue coffee cup and notebook.
A little company at your desk. AI-generated concept.

Just here for the fun?

Pick your fictional companion and see how close the technology gets.

Choose between the portraits →
17 systems tracked6 UK retail listings tracked4 near-term systems watched£369 Casio Moflin£64,700 X04-SYNC2 UK listingLatest source check 4 October 2026

What counts as a companion robot?

“Companion robot” now covers machines with radically different abilities: wheeled home robots, touch-responsive pets and human-form systems. We keep the labels attached to the hardware.

Familiar companion robot facing a golden retriever

Familiar

Colin Angle’s post-Roomba project is aiming at something unusually ambitious: a physical companion that learns household rhythms and develops a relationship through touch, movement and memory.

Familiar reality check →
Photo: Familiar Machines & Magic
Enabot EBO X home companion robot

EBO X

A wheeled home companion with a displayed £829 sale price, mapping, face recognition, cameras and GPT conversation. Currently out of stock in the UK.

Reality check →
Five LOVOT 3.0 companion robots

LOVOT 3.0

Warm-bodied, mobile and deliberately needy. More than 20,000 active contracts as of July 2026, according to GROOVE X.

LOVOT reality check →
Human-form companion robot at a technology exhibition

The stranger end of the market

A full human-form companion is already listed for £64,700 in Britain. The evidence around what it can actually do needs careful reading.

X04-SYNC2, 18+ topic →

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Three distinct adult humanoid concepts in a warm domestic interior.
Three possible faces of companionship. AI-generated concepts.

Keep choosing until one feels right.

Start with a mixed pair or choose women or men. Tap the portrait you prefer, keep refining for as long as you like, then stop on your favourite. You can share it immediately or add capabilities and budget for the reality check.

Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea
Original editorial image of humanoid companions in an exclusive futuristic venue
Original editorial image exploring software companionship and embodied machines

Fiction got there first

Two thousand years of imagining artificial partners

Pygmalion starts with a custom-made lover. Westworld turns humanoids into a pay-per-visit service. Her removes the body altogether. The technology changes; questions about ownership, memory, obedience and agency keep returning.

The fiction timeline follows 22 works and asks what each one got right about the market now taking shape.

The next year could move quickly

Home humanoids have early-access order pages, adult systems have refundable reservations, and human-form production lines are being commissioned. We keep each date beside its evidence so delays stay obvious.

US deliveries stated for 2026; not confirmed here

1X NEO

A soft-covered walking home robot with basic autonomy. For unfamiliar tasks, scheduled Expert Mode can involve remote human supervision.

Q1 2027 target; production and delivery not guaranteed

Lovense AI Doll

An announced adult companion combining AI conversation with a realistic, poseable body. The GBP terms offer a refundable reservation; the final specification and purchase price can change.

Production line commissioned; mass production targeted end-2026

XPENG IRON

XPENG commissioned IRON production lines on 8 September. It still targets mass production by the end of 2026 and China/overseas delivery in 2027. Initial uses are commercial; no UK home-companion offer is established.

Start with the live market

Follow the price ladder or compare up to three robots. A robotic head, a complete body and a reservation need different price labels.

£369Moflin, direct from Casio UK
£2,599Emma 405 base UK adult listing
£64.7kX04-SYNC2 UK retail listing
Q1 2027Lovense AI Doll target shipping window