Abi

Andromeda Robotics

Australia

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Abi is Andromeda Robotics' robot companion for aged-care and assisted-living residents, and she is built to be a friend rather than a worker. She stands 120 cm tall, a height chosen to sit below the uncanny valley, and instead of legs she uses a wheeled base: it keeps her stable, simplifies navigation in corridors and rooms, and sidesteps the balance problems that make bipedal robots risky around frail people. Her purpose is connection. She provides one-to-one companionship in residents' own rooms to push back against social isolation, she is fluent in 90 languages so a resident can talk in the language they have always thought in, and she leads small group activities such as singing, dancing and games, holding the attention of residents who are usually distracted. Underneath, she recognises faces, understands and expresses emotion, and remembers conversations from days or months ago, and she reads each resident's cues, whether that means joining daily prayers or patiently hearing the same fond memory again. The results show in the deployment record: mecwacare became the first aged-care provider in Australia to put a humanoid robot into all 22 of its homes across Melbourne and regional Victoria, the largest deployment in Australian aged care, and Medical and Aged Care Group has worked with her since February 2024. Andromeda has announced Genesis Abi, a fully autonomous next generation it describes as the first humanoid robot ready to support Australia's workforce, with better emotional attunement and conversation in up to 90 languages. Abi was created in Melbourne and is now also available in the United States, where the company is starting with aged care.