Emotional desktop pets · Small robots · OEM / ODM · Shenzhen
Small robots with a temper,
priced for the shelf
A desktop pet at a retail price is an exercise in subtraction: no display, no camera, no cloud — just a dot-matrix eye pair, a touch sensor, an accelerometer and a firmware personality written well enough that ten behaviours feel like a hundred. The hard part is not the hardware bill; it is making a $20 BOM read as alive, and letting two of them react to each other so the buyer wants the second one.
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- In-house
- PCB · firmware · app · ID
- Custom
- Product development
- Shenzhen
- Development & production
- CE / FCC
- Certification support
Small robots already shipping
At this size the bill of materials is dominated by three things: the display, the battery and the servos. Everything else is optimisation. Below is the hardware we ship today at a shelf-friendly cost.
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Small formats we develop
A desk pet has to fit next to a monitor, survive being knocked over, and be quiet enough to sit through a meeting. Those three constraints rule out most of the hardware people ask for first.
AI Talking Plush Toy
A soft friend that truly talks back
02Expressive-Eyes AI Toy
Eyes that feel what it says
03Desktop Companion Robot
Your desk just got a personality
The pets in these illustrations are drawn: most small-robot programmes are exclusive-channel and unannounced. Photographs of shipping product are in the Production range; behaviour clips and a noise measurement of the servos are available from sales under NDA.
See the Production range (real photos) →Developed for your brand and channel
Toy and gift retail
An impulse-price interactive item for shelf and counter, with the packaging a retail buyer expects.
Collectible multi-packs
Two-packs and series where units interact — the mechanic that lifts units per basket.
Desk accessory brands
A small presence on a work desk that reacts without demanding an app or a subscription.
Promotional and corporate gifting
A branded interactive item at volume, with custom colour and logo without new tooling.
Why desk-pet brands work with us
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💡 Ten behaviours that read as a personality
Curiosity, sulking, drowsiness and play written as a state machine with transitions — the reason two units feel different after a week.
- 02
👥 A peer protocol that actually works
Infrared or BLE discovery between units, with behaviour negotiation so two pets react instead of both beeping.
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💰 Cost engineered from the shelf price backwards
We start from your retail price and margin, then choose the eye technology, sensor set and battery that fit. Quantity and price quoted per project.
The two constraints that decide a desk pet
Noise and uptime. A servo that sounds charming for thirty seconds becomes intolerable after an hour at the same desk, and the fix is not "better servo" but a different motion vocabulary — smaller, slower, less frequent, with the personality carried by light and sound instead. Uptime is the other half: a pet that needs charging every day gets left in a drawer by week two, so the behaviour schedule has to fit the battery rather than the other way round.
Dialogue languages
60 languages and regional variants, one board for every market
Voice dialogue is up and running, with speech recognition and synthesis in every language below; the China version adds a wide choice of Mandarin voices and four dialects. Pick a voice per market, or have a brand voice made.
Europe
- English (UK)
- French
- German
- Spanish (Spain)
- Italian
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Dutch
- Polish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Czech
- Slovak
- Hungarian
- Romanian
- Bulgarian
- Greek
- Croatian
- Serbian
- Bosnian
- Slovenian
- Macedonian
- Albanian
- Danish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Finnish
- Estonian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
Americas
- Spanish (Argentina)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
Middle East & Central Asia
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Persian
- Turkish
- Azerbaijani
- Armenian
- Kazakh
- Uzbek
South Asia
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Urdu
- Gujarati
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Nepali
East & Southeast Asia
- Mandarin Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Mongolian
- Vietnamese
- Thai
- Lao
- Burmese
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Malay
- Filipino
Africa
- Swahili
China region
- Mandarin (many voices)
- English
- Cantonese
- Sichuanese
- Henan dialect
- Hunan dialect
Try before you build
AI voice starter kit
Want to hear the dialogue before you decide on a product? Buy the basic voice mainboard, speaker and microphone on their own, plug in power and start talking to the AI. Language and voice are set for your target market, so you can judge latency, sound and conversation before going custom.
Ask about the kitIn the box
- ✓Voice mainboard with dialogue firmware
- ✓Speaker
- ✓Microphone
Bare boards, no enclosure and no battery — power it from any USB-C charger. It ships worldwide by standard express.
Tell us the shelf and the noise limit
Retail price and the room it will sit in are the two inputs that matter. From those we can size the display, pick the servo class, and say honestly whether the personality you want survives at that price.