entertainment
Games, dances, moods, desk antics
Owner verifiedVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- None
Research record R-021Commercially available
EMO
By Living AI · China · announced September 2021
The desk robot with legs and attitude: a $279-379 companion that wanders your desk, plays and sulks.
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Research summary
What the record says.
EMO is Living AI's walking desktop pet: a palm-sized robot on two legs with an expressive screen face and headphone-style ears. It patrols the desk edge without falling off, recognizes faces, dances to music, plays games and reacts with a large repertoire of moods. Over 1,000 animations and steady firmware updates have kept a devoted community since 2022.
Current models and bundles run about $279 to $379. EMO's cloud-connected features and historically long shipping waits are the recurring owner complaints; its personality is the recurring reason people keep it on the desk anyway.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Owner verified
Sold continuously since 2022 with a large owner community
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
2 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Owner verified; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
conversation
Voice chat via LLM integration
Owner verifiedVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- None
Hardware record.
- Height
- 12 cm
- Weight
- 0.25 kg
- Locomotion
- Two-legged desktop walking with edge detection
- Payload
- None
- Runtime
- About 2 hours; skateboard dock charging
- Charging
- Charging dock (skateboard)
- Top speed
- Desk pace
- Degrees of freedom
- Legs, head, ear articulation
- Hands
- None
- Face / expression
- Expressive screen face
- Sensors
- Camera with face recognition, microphones, touch sensors, edge-detection sensors
Software record.
- AI platform
- Living AI stack with cloud features; ChatGPT integration added for conversation
- Voice
- Voice commands and chat responses
- Languages
- English primarily
- Visual recognition
- Face recognition for owners
- Memory
- Recognizes people; daily routines
- Processing
- On-device plus cloud
- Autonomous abilities
- Autonomous desk life: wandering, dancing, sleeping
- Teleoperation
- None
- Software updates
- Frequent firmware and animation updates
- Developer access
- None
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Cloud-connected features; policy published by Living AI
- Remote operation possible
- No documented remote operation
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not applicable
- Camera / microphone controls
- Power off
- Data deletion
- Account deletion
- Account required
- App account
- Emergency stop
- Not applicable
- Children and pets
- Small desk toy
- Security updates
- Regular updates
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Preorder
Crowdfunding launch
- Commercially available
Volume shipping and community growth
Source register
1 linked source.
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