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Account handoff and the robot digital estate

What families and organizations should record about ownership, administrators, memories, media, subscriptions, and emergency access.

1 min readReviewed July 2026

Products, prices, policies, and evidence change. Verify the current primary sources for the exact model and region before acting.

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Separate the owner, user, payer, and administrator

These roles may be different. Record who can change settings, see activity, renew service, authorize repairs, export data, and delete the account. Do not share one personal password among a family or staff team.

Use the vendor's supported delegation features where they exist, enable strong authentication, and keep recovery information in an approved password manager or organizational process.

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Prepare for incapacity, death, and transfer

Document the vendor's process for account transfer, death, loss of capacity, and subscription cancellation. Decide which photos, recordings, names, routines, and generated memories should be exported, deleted, or passed to an authorized person.

A factory reset may not delete server-side data. Complete account deletion and third-party revocation separately, and preserve only material that the user had agreed could be retained.

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Framework sources

These sources shape the questions in this guide. They do not certify any listed robot.

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