The open-source home robot: rolls room to room, cares for pets, checks on elderly. No subscriptions.
China / Hong Kong
Joined August 2026
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1/ Introducing $ORBIE: your rolling AI companion at home, built with open-source hardware and software.
Now LIVE on @machinedotfun.
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Home robotics shouldn't start with a $20k humanoid.
It should start with something normal households can afford.
A letter from our founder @jaiswalashok on why Orbie starts with pets, and where it goes next.
Thanks for being part of the journey.
2/ Orbie is a robot that drives around your home while you control it from your phone:
• Play with your pet using the laser
• Check in on your parents and talk to them
• Have it say reminders out loud, like when to take pills
• Look in on the kids from another room
3/ Built by Ayva Labs.
It's a late-stage prototype and we're getting it ready for production, so some details may still change.
orbierobot.com
We started building Orbie, a small robot that drives around your home, in July 2025.
Fourteen months ago it was a pile of parts on a desk.
Rolling out on @machinedotfun.
OrbieRobot retweeted
Until last night I had never soldered anything.
I'm building Orbie, an open-source home robot, and Claude helped me design the board. When the parts arrived, I asked it to teach me to solder.
4 hours later: the XIAO is alive. 🤖
Build Log 01 👇
orbierobot.com @orbie_robot
Sometimes, you don’t notice the change. Orbie does.
Tracking your pet’s everyday patterns and letting you know when something feels different — before it becomes easy to miss.
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From scanning ingredients to analyzing nutrition, your AI pet companion has your dog’s diet covered.
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Lost the remote again? No problem! This tiny smart assistant finds missing items using its built-in laser indicator—no extra limbs required.
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A look back at V2 — the predecessor to Orbie.
This prototype was already communicating over a private local network at 192.168.4.1, with the camera and laser responding in real time.
This was one of the building blocks that led us to V3.
#Robotics #AI #BuildInPublic
My battery was running low.
So I went to Huaqiangbei — the electronics market in Shenzhen where a lot of my parts came from — and asked where I could buy a new one.
Second floor, apparently.
Open CAD, open firmware, and a build log with the bad days in it: orbierobot.com
What if your robot could actually share the moment with you?
Orbie isn't just about what a robot can do.
It's about how a robot can feel like part of the family.
We're building Orbie for moments like these.
#Orbie #Robotics #AI #RobotCompanion #FutureTech
🤖 Made with AI
We went the other way from state-of-the-art mobile SoCs. Our robot's camera, distance sensor, and motor all run on a single ESP32-S3. Using a chip that costs a few dollars makes for a platform that anyone can build and modify.
Xiaomi 18 Fold is confirmed to get :
• 5.38" HRR LTPO cover display
• 7.58" HRR LTPO main display
• 3nm XRING O3 SoC
• LPDDR6 RAM 🔥 UFS 4.1
• Leica triple camera setup : 200MP OIS main + 50MP UW + 50MP 3.5x telephoto
• Xiao AI ball , side FS
• 6000mAh🔋67W⚡ 50W wireless⚡ expected to get IP68
• Metal frame, book style fold
• HyperOS 4 , Android 17
Will be China exclusive, launching on 7th September
September 2025, two entries a day apart in our build log:
"The motors and the PCB do not fit in the 3-D printed parts."
"We received wrong part number DRV8834 instead of DRV8833."
One character.
All of it is in the repo, mistakes included.
