Presence, and soon, hands.
Companion sits with someone and keeps the conversation going. The device we're building next handles the physical chores around the house. Here's the plan, and what's real today.
For a while, every roadmap conversation about Companion ran into the same question: fine, it talks, it notices, it keeps someone company — but what about the tasks that actually need hands? Tidying a room. Fetching a glass of water from the kitchen. Answering the door. Companion, sitting on a nightstand, can't do any of that. It was never supposed to.
Presence first, on purpose.
Companion is built to do one job well: sit with someone, talk, and carry the daily context that used to disappear between visits. A robot that also picks things up and carries them across a room is a different engineering problem — mobility, manipulation, safety around furniture and pets and stairs — and solving it first would have slowed down the thing that actually mattered most: a device that shows up, listens, and doesn't feel like a machine.
The second device.
That second problem is one we're building toward now, not one we've solved. Sevah has purchased a Nori A3 — a commercially available bimanual home-assistance robot — and we're building the orchestration that would let a device in that class work alongside Companion: tidying, fetching, the physical chores around a house that pile up between visits. There's no partnership with the robot's manufacturer; the hardware is bought off the shelf, and CareOS is the layer we're building to connect it into the same daily-context loop Companion already feeds.
It's in development, not a shipped capability, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. It's also not a replacement for a caregiver's hands. The physical, hands-on care a person needs — bathing, transfers, the things that require judgment and touch — stays with a trained human caregiver. A robot that tidies a kitchen is not the same claim as a robot that provides personal care, and we're careful not to blur the two.
The plan is simple to say and slower to build: Companion for presence, a second device for chores, and CareOS as the layer that keeps both pointed at the same person. Presence first. Hands later.