Tobi

Twolabs

United States

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Tobi is the first robot design from Twolabs, a San Francisco startup backed by Y Combinator, and it is deliberately aimed at a market most humanoid programmes ignore: elder care. It is a semi-humanoid rather than a full biped, pairing a humanlike upper body with a stable wheeled base so that it moves calmly and safely through nursing homes, assisted living facilities and shared indoor spaces. It stands 150 cm and weighs 60 kg, reaches 4 km/h, lifts up to 5 kg and runs for 5 hours per charge, with 16 degrees of freedom, ten fingers, an aluminium frame and soft-touch polymer covers chosen to look approachable rather than industrial. Published capabilities centre on practical indoor work: obstacle avoidance for moving through hallways, resident rooms and shared areas, and sorting goods to help staff organise supplies. Connectivity covers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and facility network integration, and the robot includes LLM integration for higher-level interaction workflows. Twolabs' goals for residents are everyday physical help such as feeding, dressing, medication reminders and fetching objects; mobility support in the form of a stabilisation aid for walking plus wayfinding; and companionship through conversation and presence. The company reports the prototype design complete with its AI stack in active development, training vision-language-action models and building a social intelligence layer, and it is advised by Prof. Zackory Erickson of Carnegie Mellon University. Tobi is a prototype and is not yet available for purchase.