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SwitchBot is bringing a new household robot to CES 2026. The smart home company is launching the Onero H1, which it calls “the most accessible AI household robot.” The announcement follows last year’s debut of its multitasking household bot — a robot vacuum mounted to a mobile platform.
SwitchBot says the Onero is a general-use humanoid robot designed to eliminate housework that can complete “everyday actions such as grasping, pushing, opening, and organizing, while learning to adapt across different tasks and home scenarios.”
A video the company shared ahead of the show demonstrated the Onero doing household tasks like filling a coffee machine, making breakfast, washing the windows, loading a washing machine, and folding and putting away clothes.
The Onero isn’t a full humanoid; it has articulated arms and hands, and a face, but no legs. Its long, oblong body sits on a wheeled base for mobility, an evolution of SwitchBot’s modular multitasking bot.
According to the company, the Onero uses multiple cameras in its head, arms, hands, and midsection to power its perception. It also has an impressive 22 degrees of freedom (DoF), referring to the number of independent movements it can make. For comparison, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas’ upper body has 29 DoF.
Image: SwitchBot
The Onero uses an on-device OmniSense vision-language-action (VLA) model that enables the robot to learn and adapt by combining visual perception, depth awareness, and tactile feedback to understand an object’s position, shape, and interaction states.
This should enable it to perform the household tasks shown in the demo video. However, as anyone who’s followed the adventures of humanoid robots this past year will know, video demos are very different from the real thing. I’ll be getting some one-on-one time with the Onero on the show floor this week and will report back.
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