Voxel Series-1: A Home Robot Trained With Animator Motion Opens $200 Reservations

A Robot That Wants to Tidy Your Home

On October 20, 2026, a New York startup called Tuesday Labs introduced Voxel Series-1, a two-legged robot designed to keep a home in order. Alongside a short launch film titled A gentleman in training, the company opened reservations: a fully refundable $200 deposit holds a place in line for a robot it expects to cost about $20,000.

The robot is not coming soon. Tuesday Labs is targeting deliveries in 2028, starting in the United States, and it says the hardware, appearance and abilities may still change before then. Even so, Voxel is one of the first walking robots aimed squarely at ordinary living rooms and kitchens.

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A Gentleman in Training

Voxel does not look like most humanoids. It has a boxy mustard-yellow body, dusty-rose arms and a face panel with small illuminated pixel eyes, which gives it the expression of a polite, slightly shy helper. There is no separate neck or head, because the body doubles as the torso and the head.

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That look is deliberate. Tuesday Labs works with illustrators, character designers and animators, and the launch film includes title cards stating that it is not CGI. The aim is a robot with personality that feels at home next to a sofa and a bookshelf instead of looking like a factory machine.

Four Jobs at Launch

The company describes four launch tasks. Home Reset puts belongings back where they live. Find tells you where an item, such as a lost phone or wallet, was last seen. Fetch brings you things like a book, a drink or your keys, and Tend looks after plants by watering them regularly.

Just as important is what Voxel will not do at launch. Cooking, laundry and childcare are not on the list, and Tuesday Labs says only that further tasks may follow. In the launch film, the robot waters a bonsai tree and hands an instrument to a musician, which shows the careful, gentle style of work it is aiming for.

How Voxel Sees and Remembers

Voxel sees with a pair of stereo color cameras that judge close-range depth, plus a separate wide-field camera that can watch a whole room. Together they let it recognize objects and work out where its hands should go, even when towels, dishes and everyday clutter keep moving around.

The robot also builds a lasting 3D model of the home and of where each item belongs. That memory is what lets it answer a question like where did you last see my keys, and it is the idea behind the find and reset tasks.

Built to Work Around a Home

Homes are full of doors, shelves and counters that were never designed for robots, so Voxel's arms each have seven degrees of freedom and fully actuated wrists. That is the same sort of flexibility a human arm has, and it helps the robot reach around furniture. Its grippers have one degree of freedom, enough to grasp, hold, pull and release.

Its legs are unusual. They are Z-shaped and bend backward at the knee, which lets the robot crouch, adjust its working height and reach into cabinets or under tables. Tuesday Labs has not published a height, weight, battery size or computer specification, so those details remain open.

Walking Like a Character

Voxel's movement is trained with reinforcement learning, a method in which software learns by trial and error in simulation. Its training uses 3D reference animations made by animators with Pixar experience, and the approach is closely related to a well-known technique called DeepMimic that teaches a robot to copy animated motion.

The result is meant to be a walk with personality and good manners. The robot also uses impact-aware feet and motion models that are designed to keep its footsteps quiet, which is a small detail that matters a great deal in a home where people sleep, work and talk.

The Reservation, the Price and the Wait

A reservation costs $200 and is fully refundable. It secures the right to buy from the first production run, but it is not a finished order: buyers see a final price, taxes and delivery fees before they commit. The expected price of about $20,000 is the company's own estimate, not a firm figure.

Delivery is targeted for 2028, and early availability may be limited to certain areas of the United States. That long wait makes Voxel a bet on the future more than a product you can buy tomorrow, and the company says the schedule could slip.

The Company Behind Voxel

Tuesday Labs was founded in 2023 by Rosalind Shinkle, a former Boston Dynamics engineer who worked on the manipulation team for the Spot robot. The company was previously known as Adagy Robotics, went through the Y Combinator program in early 2024 and has raised seed funding from FundersClub and Ludlow Ventures, though it has not said how much.

Reports describe a very small team of about seven people, which helps explain why the company is taking reservations before showing full specifications. For now, Voxel is an appealing idea backed by a clear design philosophy, and the things to watch are real size and battery figures, the first demonstrations in a real home and how the price develops.