Method

How robots get onto this site, how they get judged, where the facts come from, and what the labels mean. If you disagree with a call, this page should let you see exactly which criterion produced it.

The four criteria

A robot is listed only if it meets all four. Meeting three is not a partial listing: it produces a page in examined and not listed explaining which one is missing. Right now 8 robots meet all four and 11 do not.

Multi-task by design. Performs two or more distinct household task types. Not a single-purpose appliance, and not one task described several ways.
Physical manipulation. Has arms, grippers or manipulators, and can pick up, move or handle objects.
AI-driven autonomy. Copes with unscripted variation within a task: it perceives what is actually there and adapts, rather than replaying a fixed motion sequence. How a task is started is not part of this test.
Credible home path. Targets domestic use, and has a public price, preorder or announced release window. Pure research demos are excluded.

The third one is the hardest and the one most often argued about, so it has a concrete test: the dropped sock. If a garment slips halfway through a fold, does the robot notice and recover, or carry on folding air? A robot that only ever replays a recorded motion does not pass. Marketing words such as “smart”, “AI-powered” and “intelligent” count for nothing on their own; the evidence that counts is a named learned model, a description of recovering from error or variation, training on real-world demonstration data, or generalising to objects the robot was not shown.

How a task is started is not part of that test. A chore begun from a phone button is not less intelligent than one begun by speaking; they are different interfaces. Treating the interface as evidence of intelligence is a mistake this site made once and now guards against explicitly.

A robot that is autonomous for its trained tasks and hands the rest to a remote human operator passes and is labelled. One that is only ever remote-piloted does not pass.

Single-purpose appliances are out of scope

Vacuums, mowers, pool cleaners and coffee machines are not here. They are well covered elsewhere, and they are not what this site is about. A robot that does one chore extremely well still misses the first criterion.

Where the facts come from

Every spec, price and date carries a source with the date it was read. Sources are read in any language, because several serious vendors in this field announce domestically in Chinese, Korean or Japanese months before any English coverage, and an English-only site would show an empty field while robots were already in homes. A claim from a non-English source is translated and the original link kept, so you can check it.

Nothing on this site has been tested hands-on. There is no lab, no review unit and no sample. What you are reading is a careful reading of what vendors and reporters have published, labelled with how far it can be trusted.

What the confidence labels mean

Every record carries one, and it renders on every page the record appears on. There is no unlabelled state.

Confirmed: Corroborated by at least one source that is not the vendor.
Vendor claim: Rests on the vendor’s own statements. Nobody independent has verified it.
Unconfirmed: Not established by any source we found, vendor or otherwise.

Most records currently read vendor claim. That is the honest state of a field where almost nothing has been independently tested, and it is published as such rather than smoothed over.

What the capability labels mean

Capability claims are recorded in the vendor’s own words rather than sorted into categories, because a robot approaching general competence can attempt anything its hands allow, and a fixed list would force genuinely new abilities into the nearest wrong slot. Each claim carries how far it has actually got:

Shipped: Sold and verified working.
Demonstrated: Shown in a controlled demo. Not verified in a customer’s home.
Claimed: Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

The line between demonstrated and shipped is the most useful distinction on the site. A polished video of a robot folding laundry is a demonstration until somebody who paid for one says otherwise.

Availability: where a robot is offered, and a dated check for the rest

The site tracks 14 regions, every one of them a real market: Americas: United States, Canada; Europe: United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, EU-wide; Asia-Pacific: Australia, New Zealand, China (mainland), Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore. An EU-wide offer counts for Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany unless the vendor says otherwise for one of them; no other region is ever inferred from another.

A robot’s record lists the regions where it is actually shipping, open for pre-order or announced, each with its source and, where published, the price in local currency. For every other region the record carries one dated check of what the vendor has said about other markets, and those regions read “Not announced (as of date)”. That is a fact with a date on it, which is more useful than a column of question marks. It is also different from “Not offered”, which means the vendor has said no.

Shipping: Being delivered to buyers in this region.
Pre-order: Orders or reservations open in this region.
Announced: The vendor has said it is coming to this region. Not orderable yet.
Not offered: The vendor has said it is not offered in this region.
Not announced: The vendor had not announced it for this region when last checked.
Unknown: No information either way. This is not an inference that it is unavailable. Shown only on records not yet checked against every region.

Prices are recorded in the currency the vendor published them in, and are never converted in the data. If you choose a currency at the top of the page, an approximate conversion is shown beside the published price, marked ≈, using the European Central Bank’s reference rates of the date shown. It excludes taxes, import duties and shipping, and it is not a price anyone has published.

Being allowed to sell it is a separate question

Whether a vendor offers a robot in your country and whether it may lawfully be sold there are different facts, and they come apart. The US added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to a restricted list in July 2026, so a robot can have open US pre-orders and no current path to lawful import. Robot pages show both, never merged, and say Unknown where the position has not been established, which is most of the time.

Who does the research

AI agents, on a schedule, with a human owner reviewing their output. One agent finds candidates, another applies the four criteria and records the decision with its evidence, another fills in specs, prices and availability, and another re-checks cited facts for staleness and contradictions. Every record is a file in a version-controlled repository with a source behind each field.

This is disclosed rather than implied. The advantage is coverage and freshness in a field that moves weekly and announces in four languages; the limitation is that no one here has put their hands on any of these machines, which is why the confidence labels exist and why they are on every page.

Corrections

Facts are re-verified on a cycle, and a record whose newest source is over a year old is flagged as stale. A robot that later meets all four criteria moves from examined and not listed into the catalogue; one that is withdrawn is marked discontinued rather than deleted.

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