Discover the $20,000 Voxel Bot: Your New Home Assistant for Finding Lost Items

Tuesday Labs, a robotics lab and design studio based in New York City, has opened up reservations for Voxel, its innovative bi-pedal robot crafted to learn and manage everyday tasks around your home. Much like other household robots designed for more than just mopping or vacuuming, such as Weave Robotics’ Issac 1, Voxel boasts a pair of highly articulated arms and a sophisticated vision system. If you’re keen on welcoming what Tuesday Labs calls a “droid butler” into your life, you can secure a reservation now for $200, with the full price expected to be around $20,000 when Voxel is set to ship in 2028.

The preorder model is the Voxel Series-1, featuring a humanoid design with some creative liberties. It primarily utilizes a pair of articulated arms with seven degrees of freedom, ending in simpler grippers compared to the dexterous hands found on robots like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas.

These arms extend from the top of Voxel’s torso, which also serves as its head, complete with a small mouth and pixelated, animated eyes positioned lower on its body, just above a hidden pair of stereo RGB cameras. These cameras work in tandem with a secondary “wide-field” camera to monitor the entire room.

The Series-1 moves around your home on Z-shaped legs that bend in the opposite direction of human knees. This unique design allows the robot to adjust its height for balance and maneuver easily around kitchen cabinets, tables, and shelves.

While Tuesday Labs provides extensive details about Voxel’s design and hardware, it offers less information on the robot’s capabilities and how it can enhance your household. Voxel can perform basic autonomous tasks like decluttering and returning items to their rightful places, managing routine chores such as watering plants, retrieving books, or even helping you locate misplaced items like the TV remote by recalling where it last spotted them. While it won’t be cooking dinner or changing diapers at launch, if it can reliably remember where you left your keys, it might just be worth the investment for those of us with less-than-stellar short-term memory.