Summary:

 

Eggie is a mobile humanoid robot built by Tangible Robots, a San‑Francisco–based startup focused on bringing humanoids into everyday homes. Eggie emphasizes dexterity, compliance, and whole‑body control, enabling it to operate in cluttered, unpredictable household environments where traditional robots fail. It features five‑fingered anthropomorphic hands, a friendly minimalist head, smooth wheeled mobility, and the ability to perform contact‑rich tasks such as wiping spills, holding mugs, and manipulating household objects. 

 

Eggie is positioned as a home assistant humanoid, not an industrial robot, and is priced at $32,000. 

 

Editorial:

 

Eggie enters the humanoid landscape with a clear thesis: home robots must be physically intelligent, not just visually intelligent. Tangible’s philosophy centers on three pillars:

 

- Dexterity — human‑like hands capable of nuanced manipulation  

- Compliance — safe, adaptive interaction with messy, cluttered environments  

- Whole‑body control — coordinated motion that treats the robot as a single, integrated system  

 

This approach allows Eggie to do what most humanoids avoid: lean into contact, use the environment as support, and perform tasks that require tactile intelligence rather than rigid precision. In demos, Eggie cleans a coffee spill, holds a mug, and wipes a countertop—behaviors that require force adaptation, sliding contact, and multi‑point coordination. 

 

Eggie is not designed for factories or warehouses. It is a domestic humanoid, built for kitchens, living rooms, and everyday mess. Tangible’s long‑term mission is to build general‑purpose manipulation for the home, with Eggie as the first step toward that future. 

 

Specifications:

 

Dimensions & Build

- Height: Not published  

- Weight: Not published  

- Form: Wheeled humanoid with upper‑body anthropomorphic design  

- Head: Minimalist rectangular head with dual front‑facing cameras (“eyes”)   

- Body: Smooth white panels with exposed black joints at elbows/wrists  

 

Mobility

- Locomotion: Wheeled base (smooth indoor mobility)  

- Designed for:  

  - Home navigation  

  - Cluttered environments  

  - Contact‑rich tasks  

 

No speed metrics published.

 

Degrees of Freedom

- Arms: Multi‑DOF humanoid arms  

- Hands: Five‑fingered anthropomorphic hands for dexterous manipulation   

- Head: Camera‑based expressive head  

 

No full DOF count published.

 

Actuation

- Actuator Type: Not published  

- Behavior:  

  - High compliance  

  - Smooth, adaptive motion  

  - Whole‑body coordinated control  

 

Manipulation

Eggie’s strongest domain.

 

Confirmed capabilities:

- Wiping spills with a cloth  

- Holding and stabilizing mugs  

- Coordinated bimanual tasks  

- Contact‑rich manipulation in cluttered kitchens  

- General‑purpose household object handling  

 

These behaviors are highlighted in Tangible’s launch demos. 

 

Perception & Sensors

Confirmed:

- Dual front‑facing cameras for vision (in head)   

- Whole‑body sensing for compliance  

- Environmental awareness for home navigation  

 

Not published:

- Depth sensor specs  

- IMU details  

- Camera resolution  

 

Compute & AI

- AI Focus: General‑purpose manipulation  

- Embodied AI: Designed to understand 3D, touch, and scale in real environments   

- Autonomy: Early‑stage; demos show autonomous manipulation sequences  

- Long‑term goal: Fully autonomous home assistant  

 

Battery & Power

- Not published  

 

Connectivity

- Not published  

 

Applications

- Home assistance  

- Education and interaction (per Humanoid.guide)   

- Light service tasks  

- Embodied‑AI research  

- Domestic manipulation tasks  

 

Pricing

- $32,000

 

Tangible Has NOT Published

- Height  

- Weight  

- DOF breakdown  

- Payload  

- Battery capacity  

- Runtime  

- Sensor resolution  

- Actuator torque  

- Commercial release date  

 

Image: @chuckAIRobot

 

Company Source:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9jrybBTV7Y

 

Key News & Coverage

 

https://youtu.be/Y9jrybBTV7Y?si=rT_OVEw4Sm-XyKdU