Pet robots comparison

While preparing flatcat for release and the time before we collected and researched our peers and competition. Below is the first draft of our pet robot comparison matrix. The matrix lists several related robots on the market and shows different features on the columns.

Mobility comes to mind immediately to be added, in the meantime the top three rows are immobile robots. Prices are approximate and in USD units. The “touch+” criterion means there is a motor in the robot that can feel a force applied through touch or gravity. For this we use our in-house Sensorimotor module. More on that soon. Be in touch with any questions or comments and more things to include.

Current table 2021-08-27

Robot	Avail	Open	Force	Cloud	Price	Links	Company	Fake	Surprise	Cute	Energy
Tamagotchi	Y	N				tamagotchi.com	Bandai
Furby	Y	N				Furby @hasbro.com	Hasbro
Paro	Y	N	N	N	5000	https://www.paroseal.co.uk https://www.parorobots.com	AIST	20 (eyes)		100
Nicobo	C	N	N	Y	300	Nicobo announcement	Panasonic	80 (eyes, speech)		100
Qoobo	Y	N	N	Y	400	Qoobo	Yukai Engineering			100
Moflin	C	N	N	Y	400	Moflin @kickstarter	Vanguard Industries			100
Marscat	C	Y	N	N	700	elephantrobotics.com	Elephant Robotics	80 (eyes, cat-body)		30
flatcat	Y	Y	Y	N	1000	flatcat	Jetpack Cognition Lab	0		70
Bittle	C	Y	N	N	250	Bittle @petoi.com	Petoi
Aibo	N	N	N	Y	2800	Aibo US (not available for EU)	Sony
Cozmo	P	N	N	Y	220	Anki /Cozmo @digitaldreamlabs.com	Digital Dream Labs
Moxie	Y	N	N	Y	1700	Moxie @embodied.com	Embodied, Inc.
Lovot	Y	?	N	Y	4000	Lovot	?	?	?	?	?
Kiki	N					Kiki
Maicat	N	N	?	?	?	Macroact	Macroact	?	?
Miro	Y	?	?	?	£ 2450	Buy Miro	Consequential robotics	?	?
Purrble	Y	?	?	?	$ 50	Buy Purrble	Purrble	?	?