laundry
Loads washing machines and moves laundry
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Not disclosed
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
Research record R-042Public demonstration
Onero H1
By SwitchBot (Wonderlabs) · China · announced January 2026
The smart-home brand's chore robot that impressed CES 2026 by promising less than everyone else.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
The Onero H1 is SwitchBot's entry into home robotics: a mobile robot with arms that loads washing machines, moves laundry and handles small tidying jobs, extending the company's ecosystem of retrofit smart-home gadgets. At CES 2026 it stood out precisely for its modesty, and Engadget named it a best-robot pick of the show.
SwitchBot says limited quantities are expected at the end of 2026; no price or preorder channel had appeared as of July 2026. The company's track record of actually shipping affordable consumer hardware, from curtain robots to the K10 vacuum line, earns its timeline more benefit of the doubt than most CES robots receive.
Everything demonstrated so far is booth-controlled.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Not demonstrated
None; CES 2026 demonstrations
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
2 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Controlled demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
cleaning
Small tidying tasks
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Not disclosed
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
Hardware record.
- Height
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Weight
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Locomotion
- Wheeled base
- Payload
- Laundry loads and small household items
- Runtime
- Not disclosed
- Charging
- Dock
- Top speed
- Household speeds
- Degrees of freedom
- Dual arms; figures unpublished
- Hands
- Grippers designed for fabric and containers
- Face / expression
- Minimal indicator design
- Sensors
- Cameras and depth sensing
Software record.
- AI platform
- SwitchBot ecosystem integration
- Voice
- App-first control
- Languages
- App languages
- Visual recognition
- Laundry and object recognition in demos
- Memory
- Home mapping expected
- Processing
- Not disclosed
- Autonomous abilities
- Washing-machine loading shown in controlled demos
- Teleoperation
- Not disclosed
- Software updates
- SwitchBot app updates expected
- Developer access
- SwitchBot ecosystem APIs (existing products)
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Not disclosed
- Remote operation possible
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not disclosed
- Camera / microphone controls
- Not disclosed
- Data deletion
- Not disclosed
- Account required
- SwitchBot account expected
- Emergency stop
- Not disclosed
- Children and pets
- Not disclosed
- Security updates
- Not disclosed
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Public demonstration
CES 2026 debut; Engadget best-robot pick; end-2026 limited availability stated
Source register
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