Former Boston Dynamics engineer opens $200 reservations for Voxel, a $20,000 home robot butler

Tuesday Labs' headless Voxel takes $200 refundable deposits: a Pixar-animated home humanoid with 7-DoF arms, estimated at $20,000, shipping in 2028.

Tuesday Labs, a New York City robotics lab and design studio, has opened reservations for Voxel Series-1, a bipedal home robot the company describes as a “droid butler.” A $200 fully refundable deposit secures a place in line; the company estimates the finished robot will cost around $20,000, with first deliveries in the United States planned for 2028.

The founder is Rosalind Shinkle, a former Boston Dynamics robotics engineer who worked on manipulation algorithms. Rather than chasing athletic stunts, Tuesday Labs hired Pixar animators to shape how Voxel moves and behaves. The robot has no head — a pair of 8-bit pixel eyes sits on its torso — and it walks on backward-bending metal legs. Animators choreographed its gait in 3D software first; the team's models then reproduce that motion in the real world, hesitations and wobbles included.

Voxel is being trained for what Shinkle calls the “home reset”: tidying daily messes, putting things back where they belong, fetching objects, finding misplaced items and watering plants. It will not cook or change diapers at launch; laundry and dishes are the stated long-term goal. The bet is that a home robot needs a consistent, predictable character — trust through personality — as much as it needs capability.

On hardware, Voxel carries two 7-degree-of-freedom arms with simple grippers, stereo RGB cameras and a wide-field room camera, and it learns where household objects belong by continuously scanning its environment. Reservations are open now; the company says the first units ship in 2028.