Every companion robot actually for sale in 2026
Sixteen companion robots are sold in the US, fourteen with a checkout on their maker's own store, priced $59.90 to above $3,000, and only five of them still work when the router goes down.
Sixteen robots sold in the United States in 2026 exist purely to keep you company. Fourteen have a checkout on their maker's own store, one sells through retailers only, and one is out of stock. The cheapest is $59.90, the dearest is a Sony aibo that AFP put above $3,000 in June 2026, and not one of them will carry a plate to the sink.
The definition is doing real work here, so it goes first. A companion robot is one you buy for its company: it reacts, it emotes, it remembers you, and the maker sells that and nothing else. That rules out robot vacuums, which sell labor. It rules out the Unitree quadrupeds and bipeds, which are developer platforms wearing an animal or a person shape. It rules out Tesla Optimus and Figure 03, which are neither companions nor purchasable by anyone reading this. It rules out car companion robots, which are company and nothing else but are tied to cars no US buyer can order. What is left fits on one shelf.
Prices are what each maker's own store showed, with the three exceptions flagged under the table.
The whole shelf, cheapest first
| Robot | Price | Ongoing cost | Built for | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eiliko | $59.90 (reg $69.90) | none | adults | Shipping |
| WowWee Dog-E | about $76 to $80 at retail | none, app optional | kids | Retail only, stock patchy |
| Eilik | $139.99 (reg $149.99) | none | adults, older kids | Shipping |
| Miko Mini | $149 (reg $199) | optional | kids | Direct and retail |
| Joy for All cat / pup | $159.99 / $179.99 | none | seniors | Cats shipping, pup via Amazon |
| Vector 2.0 | $199.99 (to $249.99) | $11.99/mo or $99.99/yr | adults | Ships in 1 business day |
| LOOI | $239 (reg $259) | none stated | adults | Shipping |
| ElliQ | $249 lease initiation | $39 to $59/mo | seniors | Shipping (US) |
| EMO | $279 (White $289) | none advertised | adults | Shipping |
| Miko 3 | $299 | Miko Max from $8.25/mo | kids | Direct and retail |
| Loona Deskmate | $299 | optional credit tiers | adults | Shipping |
| Moflin | $429 | none in the US | adults | Shipping |
| Loona Petbot | $499 (reg $529) | none today | family | Dispatch in 3 business days |
| EBO X | $799 (reg $999) | none stated | family | Out of stock |
| MarsCat | $1,199 to $1,299 | none | adults | Stock flips, see below |
| Sony aibo | above $3,000 | $300/yr after 3 included years | adults | Shipping, US only |
Thirteen of the sixteen sit under $500. The category has no middle class above that: past Loona Petbot at $499 there is one out-of-stock family robot, one bionic cat and a Sony, and then nothing at all until you leave the category for machines that cost five figures and are still teleoperated.
Three rows need their asterisks read. MarsCat showed every variant unavailable on one tracker pass and no sold-out badge three days later, which is the pattern with Elephant Robotics: the listing stays up and the stock blinks. Miko's direct store has sold out of both Miko 3 colors before while Costco, Walmart, Target and Amazon kept shelves full, so check retail before you plan around miko.ai. Moflin's $429 is Casio's US launch price from 2025-10-01, because Casio's store hard-blocks automated checks. Reach the cart on all three before you trust the number.
Volume is the column a census like this cannot fill, because makers here do not publish unit numbers, and Casio is the exception.
Casio says 20,000 Moflins have gone to new families around the world, from the 2024 announcement to today. (@casio_moflin, 2026-05-26)
"For adults" is a real filter
A steady slice of the searches for this category specifies adults, and the reason is visible in the Built for column. Three of the sixteen are children's products (Dog-E, Miko Mini, Miko 3), two more are pitched at the whole household (Loona Petbot, EBO X), and Miko in particular runs a content upsell aimed squarely at parents.
The eleven built for adult buyers split into three moods. The desk tier is expressive machinery you keep at arm's length: Eilik, EMO, Vector 2.0, LOOI, Loona Deskmate and the $59.90 Eiliko. The pet tier asks for something closer to affection: Moflin has no face and no limbs and develops a mood, MarsCat walks around and sulks, aibo recognizes faces and learns tricks. The senior tier, Joy for All and ElliQ, is bought by adults for other adults, and it is the only tier with peer-reviewed evidence behind it, which the companion robots for seniors guide works through with the effect sizes attached.
What none of them do is hold up their end of a real conversation without a data center. Which ones run an actual language model and which ones just react to touch is the single most misread spec in the category, and it is mapped in what the AI in a companion robot actually does.
The four with no US checkout
These four get written about as though they are for sale here. None of them can be added to a cart from an American address.
Tombot Jennie. Still waitlist only. Tombot's own site says "We have sold out our first litter" and that pricing and availability come "when we get closer to shipping." The $1,500 figure that circulates in coverage is a company estimate, not a listed price. See the tracker page for the running status.
PARO. The therapeutic seal sells by distributor contact into care settings, price on request, and that is deliberate rather than a supply problem.
LOVOT. Groove X's plush companion is the high-water mark of the whole category, and Groove X does not sell it here. lovot.life states it "is currently available in Japan," and the Japanese store lists LOVOT 3.0 from 577,500 yen with care plans from 9,900 to 19,800 yen a month. At any exchange rate of the past two years the hardware alone lands in the high three thousands to low four thousands in dollars. Getting one to a US address runs through BEX, a Japanese proxy shipper that buys the unit on your behalf, charges USD 999 per year for its support plan, then invoices you separately for the robot and for DHL freight. Its own page notes that "GROOVE X does not provide customer service or repair support from overseas." The US does appear on BEX's supported-country list. So a LOVOT is technically obtainable and practically a four-figure annual relationship with a freight forwarder.
Nicobo. Panasonic's squishy, useless, gas-passing companion sells through Panasonic's Japanese e-commerce store and has no US channel I can find.
There is a fifth name worth flagging because it turns up in every roundup: Ropet, the fuzzy big-eyed desk pet from the CES coverage. The domain ropet.com still serves nothing but an iframe of ropet.eu, which is Rocila, an Italian firm selling chicken coops and livestock feeders. I could not tie the AI pet to a working official storefront. Treat any lookalike domain asking for your card number for one the way you would treat a stranger doing the same.
The five that keep working when the internet does not
Fourteen maker checkouts settles the supply question. Durability is the better one, because the recurring cause of death in this category is a funding round that did not close, and the robots that died were the ones whose personality lived on someone else's server. The dated ledger of that is in the consumer robot graveyard.
Five of the sixteen survive their maker in working order:
- Eilik, $139.99, no wifi, no account, nothing to cancel.
- Joy for All cats and pup, $159.99 and $179.99, four C batteries, no app.
- WowWee Dog-E, about $76 to $80, where the app is optional rather than the point.
- Moflin, $429, whose emotional model runs on the device.
- MarsCat, $1,199 to $1,299, autonomous with no app or subscription required.
The other eleven need a company on the other end, some through a monthly bill and some just by having a server or an app kept alive. Vector rents its voice at $11.99 a month. aibo includes three years of cloud and then bills $300 a year. ElliQ is a lease from the first day, which is why its own page calls the $249 a lease initiation fee. Loona's ChatGPT access is free, and KEYi's FAQ says free "for the moment," which is a hedge rather than a promise. The full teardown of who charges what on the desk tier is in the desktop robots category guide.
The split is not a ranking. aibo is the most alive thing on this list and it earns its cloud. But a $159.99 battery-powered cat and a $3,000 Sony are answering two different questions, and only one of them is still answering in five years without a company on the other end.
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