We looked at every home robot on the market. Here's how myBuddy stacks up.
myBuddy was designed after studying what existing home robots do well and where they fall short. This is an honest comparison, not a marketing deck. Every data point on this page comes from publicly available product specs and pricing, cross-referenced against INFINY Robotics' own product analysis.
Below you'll find a feature-by-feature comparison table, a narrative on what makes myBuddy different, a focused section on privacy, and a path to explore pricing or join the waitlist. The goal is to give you a clear picture so you can make the right choice for your family.
myBuddy vs. the Competition
A side-by-side look at the features that matter most for home life, family safety, and elder care.
| Feature | Amazon Astro | ElliQ | Temi | Labrador | myBuddy v1 | myBuddy v2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile (moves through home) | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| On-device AI / privacy option | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Contextual memory | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Care features (elderly) | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
| Child safety monitoring | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Smart-home hub | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Physical assistance | No | No | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| Upgradeable platform | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Starting price | $1,600 | $250 + sub | $3,500+ | ~$1,500 | from €499 | from €1,299 |
Competitor data based on publicly available product specifications and pricing as of 2024. Labrador data based on published specs for the Labrador Retriever home robot. Prices converted at approximate rates; check current listings for up-to-date figures. myBuddy pricing reflects pre-launch planned retail pricing — subject to change.
myBuddy is the only affordable, mobile, AI-native home robot that combines care, privacy choice, and daily-life management in one platform — and the only one that grows from a home assistant into a physically capable care robot.
Every competitor in this category starts at $1,500 or above — or locks critical features behind mandatory subscriptions. myBuddy v1 starts at €499, and even the subscription is optional for users who prefer to keep AI processing entirely on-device.
Most home robots are fixed hardware: what you buy is what you get. myBuddy is a platform — v1 can be upgraded with an onboard Jetson module, and the myDay software layer deepens with every update. v2 adds physical assistance for when a family's needs change.
Competitors that target elderly users tend to focus narrowly on video calls or medication reminders. myBuddy combines proactive daily-life management, safety monitoring, contextual memory, and — with v2 — physical assistance, into a single platform the whole family uses together.
PRIVACY — A REAL DIFFERENTIATOR
Your data stays where you decide.
Most home robots send everything to the cloud — not because it's necessary, but because it's cheaper to build that way. Alexa, Google Home, and the robots built on top of them process your voice, your home's video feed, and your family's routines on someone else's servers. You don't choose; it's simply how they work.
myBuddy's flexible compute architecture is different by design. On the Phone-only or Jetson-only tiers, all AI processing — conversation, vision, memory, reasoning — happens on hardware you own, in your home. Nothing leaves the device unless you choose to enable myDay Cloud. That opt-in is a real choice, not a dark pattern.
The Server-only tier does require cloud connectivity — we say that plainly on the pricing page, because honest trade-offs matter more to us than a clean marketing story. Choose the tier that fits your family's needs and comfort level.
- Amazon Astro: partial on-device processing; cloud-dependent for most features
- ElliQ: no on-device AI; all processing cloud-based
- Temi: no on-device AI; cloud-dependent
- Labrador: no AI conversation; no data privacy concern, but no capability either
- myBuddy (Phone-only / Jetson-only): 100% on-device — no cloud required
Ready to dig deeper?
Explore every hardware and compute tier on the Pricing page, or join the waitlist to be among the first families and caregivers to bring myBuddy home.