onero H1

What it is

Vendor

SwitchBot (Wonderlabs) · based in CN

About the vendor

SwitchBot runs a full Japanese consumer operation (switchbot.jp), but its parent company, Wonderlabs, is based in Shenzhen, China.

Status

Announced: Publicly described. No way to obtain it.

Confidence

Vendor claim Rests on the vendor’s own statements. Nobody independent has verified it.

Can I get it where I am?

The vendor has published no statement about its worldwide rollout that we have found.

All tracked regions

“Not announced” means the vendor had said nothing about that region when it was last checked, on the date shown; “Not offered” means the vendor has said no. An EU-wide offer counts for Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany unless the vendor says otherwise for one of them. Prices are recorded in the currency the vendor published and are never converted in the data.

May it legally be sold there?

This is a different question from whether the vendor offers it, and the two come apart: a vendor can hold open pre-orders for a robot that has no current path to being lawfully imported. The site records them separately and never merges them.

• United States

  Unknown fcc-covered-list

  Whether the robot may lawfully be sold here is not established. We do not infer it.

  Onero H1 is made by a Shenzhen-based company (Wonderlabs) and listed for eventual US sale at USD 9,999. As a foreign-produced advanced robotic device it falls under FCC's Covered List rule, effective 2026-07-28. Models that received FCC equipment authorisation before that date may still be imported, marketed and sold, but may not be modified except for certain software and firmware updates allowed under an FCC waiver until at least 1 January 2029; a product not authorised by that date is not grandfathered. No source states whether Onero H1 received FCC authorisation before that date, or whether SwitchBot has sought a Department of War conditional approval or a domestic-content exemption, the other routes to lawful import and sale in the US. The vendor's page still reads "Coming Soon" with no way to order.

  Evidence: 8. Sidley Austin LLP, 9. Wiley Rein LLP

What it can do

Listed under Laundry, Dishes, derived from the claims below.

Capability claims in the vendor’s own words, never rewritten into categories. What matters most is the label beside each one: shipped means sold and verified working, demonstrated means shown in a controlled demo, and claimed means asserted and not shown.

• Loads a washing machine: grasps laundry, pushes it in, and opens/closes the door. Demonstrated Shown in a controlled demo. Not verified in a customer’s home.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot, 5. Euronews, 6. Engadget

• Loads and runs a dishwasher. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot

• Works alongside vacuum/mopping robots, handling tasks "above" floor level while those robots handle the floor. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot

• Continuously optimizes its movements, learning from every household task it performs. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot

How it works

Within a task

Adapts within a task

The robot perceives what is actually in front of it and adjusts. If a sock slips mid-fold, it is meant to recover. This is what the AI-autonomy criterion tests.

How a task starts

Unknown

Descriptive only. A button, a spoken sentence and a schedule are different interfaces, not different degrees of intelligence.

Will it try something new?

Unknown

The vendor has not said whether the robot will attempt a task it was not validated on.

The vendor describes its "Omni Sense VLA" system as integrating vision, depth, touch and language, but has not said how a user starts a task (voice, app or free-form instruction) or whether the robot will attempt tasks beyond laundry and dishwashing.

Human operator

None described

Nothing we found describes a remote human operator completing tasks for this robot. Note that the dataset records this as a plain yes or no, so “no” here means “not described”, not “established to be absent”.

Evidence: 1. SwitchBot

Why it qualifies

A robot is listed only if it meets all four criteria. The evidence is kept so the criteria can be re-tuned against real cases rather than re-argued. How these are applied.

• Multi-task by design

  Met

  Performs two or more distinct household task types. Not a single-purpose appliance, and not one task described several ways.

  Vendor states laundry and dishwashing tasks -- two distinct chore types. Independent CES 2026 press coverage (Engadget, Verge) confirms a laundry-loading demo; dishwashing is vendor-claimed but was not independently observed on the show floor.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot, 6. Engadget

• Physical manipulation

  Met

  Has arms, grippers or manipulators, and can pick up, move or handle objects.

  Observed loading a washing machine at CES 2026 and IFA 2026 (independent press); vendor and press describe grasping, pushing and door-opening.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot, 5. Euronews, 6. Engadget

• AI-driven autonomy

  Met

  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.

  Vendor names its own "Omni Sense VLA" system explicitly as a vision-language-action model integrating vision, depth, touch and language.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot

• Credible home path

  Met

  Targets domestic use, and has a public price, preorder or announced release window. Pure research demos are excluded.

  Vendor's own product page reads "Coming Soon" with no active add-to-cart, but independent CES coverage (Engadget, Forbes) reports SwitchBot stating preorders will open "this year" for "under $10k," and vendor-sponsored Japanese press describes purchase applications opening from Japan with a 2026 general release. Together these describe an announced release window, though ordering is not yet open.

  Evidence: 1. SwitchBot, 3. Impress Watch, 4. Kadenfan / Impress Watch (SwitchBot-sponsored content), 6. Engadget, 7. Forbes

Sources

Everything on this page traces to one of these. Agents read sources in any language; a claim taken from a non-English source is translated and the original link kept. “Retrieved” is when we last read the page; “published” is the source’s own date, where it states one.

1. SwitchBot Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-09-27
2. SwitchBot Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-09-14
3. Impress Watch Press · Japanese · published 2026-01-09 · retrieved 2026-09-14
4. Kadenfan / Impress Watch (SwitchBot-sponsored content) Press · Japanese · published 2026-01-28 · retrieved 2026-09-14
5. Euronews Press · English · retrieved 2026-09-14
6. Engadget Press · English · retrieved 2026-09-15 CES 2026 report of SwitchBot stating preorders would open this year at under $10k.
7. Forbes Press · English · published 2026-01-04 · retrieved 2026-09-15 Independent CES 2026 coverage.
8. Sidley Austin LLP Independent · English · published 2026-08-07 · retrieved 2026-09-27 Law-firm summary of the FCC Covered List decision: the domestic-content test, the conditional-approval route, and the limits on changes to robots authorised before 2026-07-28.
9. Wiley Rein LLP Independent · English · published 2026-07-30 · retrieved 2026-09-27 Law-firm summary of the FCC decision: models authorised before 2026-07-28 may still be imported, marketed and sold, but may not be modified except for certain software and firmware updates allowed under a blanket waiver in place until at least 1 January 2029.
10. SwitchBot Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-09-27 Vendor's EU store page: lists onero H1 at EUR 9,999 as 'Coming Soon', with no way to order.
11. SWITCHBOT株式会社 (PR TIMES) Vendor · Japanese · published 2026-01-08 · retrieved 2026-09-27 Vendor's Japanese press release on its CES 2026 line-up, including onero H1, stating that the products shown are also planned for sale in Japan in stages. It gives no Japanese price or date.