entertainment
Reactive play and desk companionship
Owner verifiedVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- None
Research record R-019Commercially available
Eilik
By Energize Lab · China · announced October 2021
The $139 desk buddy that made robot companionship an impulse buy.
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Research summary
What the record says.
Eilik is Energize Lab's stationary desk companion: a chunky little figure with an expressive screen face that reacts dramatically to being picked up, shaken, tapped or ignored. It plays micro-games, sulks, celebrates and interacts with other Eiliks placed nearby. At $139.99 (pairs for $269.98), it is the cheapest genuinely engaging companion robot on the market, sold through Energize Lab, Amazon and Walmart.
There is no camera, no microphone-based assistant and no cloud dependency for core behavior, which makes Eilik both the most private and the least capable companion in this database: a deliberate toy, executed with enough personality that millions of TikTok viewers adopted one.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Owner verified
Mass retail distribution since 2022
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
1 material claim are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Owner verified; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
Hardware record.
- Height
- 13 cm
- Weight
- 0.25 kg
- Locomotion
- Stationary; arm and body gestures
- Payload
- None
- Runtime
- Hours per charge
- Charging
- USB-C
- Top speed
- Not applicable
- Degrees of freedom
- Arms, torso twist
- Hands
- Stub arms
- Face / expression
- Expressive screen face
- Sensors
- Touch sensors, accelerometer (no camera, no microphone)
Software record.
- AI platform
- Onboard behavior engine; no cloud AI
- Voice
- Chirps and sounds; no speech recognition
- Languages
- None
- Visual recognition
- None
- Memory
- Mood states
- Processing
- Fully local
- Autonomous abilities
- Autonomous emotional reactions
- Teleoperation
- None
- Software updates
- USB firmware updates
- Developer access
- None
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- None; no camera or microphone
- Remote operation possible
- No documented remote operation
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not applicable
- Camera / microphone controls
- Power off
- Data deletion
- Nothing collected
- Account required
- No
- Emergency stop
- Not applicable
- Children and pets
- Safe desk toy
- Security updates
- Not connectivity-dependent
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Preorder
Kickstarter campaign
- Commercially available
Retail availability scales
Source register
1 linked source.
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