Forget the LG CLOiD – this $8,000 household robot wants to fold your laundry for you
Weave Robotics is taking pre-orders for its Isaac 1 home robot
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Weave Robotics has announced its Isaac 1 household robot is available for pre-order.
The Weave Robotics Isaac 1 is designed to perform household chores, including folding laundry, tidying up and making your bed.
I’ve worked in tech for a few years now, but I never thought I’d see the day that household robots would become a thing. Clearly I was wrong, as Weave Robotics has announced its Isaac 1 home robot – and it’s available for pre-order for $7,999.
Household robots were all anyone was talking about earlier this year. At CES 2026, brands like LG and SwitchBot were showing off their full-sized home robots that are designed to do your daily chores, like folding laundry and unpacking groceries.
While the LG CLOiD has no official launch date, SwitchBot’s onero H1 seems to be in motion. It’s not yet available but it has popped up on the brand’s US website and is listed for a massive $9,999. But one brand that’s actually got their own household robot available for pre-order is Weave Robotics.
For those new to Weave Robotics, the US start-up was founded in 2024 by former Apple engineers and specialises in personal home robots. The brand first launched the Isaac 0, a stationary AI robot that completes chores using arms and grippers. But its latest home robot is much more advanced – and it moves and grows.
The Weave Robotics Isaac 1 is a full-sized autonomous robot that’s designed to tackle boring household chores for you. As a default, the Isaac 1 moves around your home and completes tasks like folding clean laundry, picking up dirty clothes, making your bed, fluffing pillows and putting items away, like toys and shoes.
Unlike its predecessor, the Isaac 1 looks more like an actual robot. Made from soft fabric, the Isaac 1 has a ‘face’ with two eyes – presumably these ‘eyes’ are the cameras’ – a collapsible torso, arms, hands and a large wheeled base which allows it to move and prevents it from bumping into furniture.
The Isaac 1 is height adjustable, so it can be as small as 3-inches and can grow to 5.9-inches. The video of the Isaac 1 growing in size feels quite ominous but I’ll let you be the judge of that. When it’s not in use, the torso can collapse down so it’s out of the way, although it’s still quite a bulky shape, size and design.
The tech inside the Isaac 1 is built using the company’s own actuators, remote actuation and safety systems. Weave Robotics states that the Isaac 1 only works when you want it to, and it connects to the Wi-Fi so you can use it via its accompanying app while you’re at home or away.
The Isaac 1 has an eight hour battery life and takes around two hours to fully charge. With privacy in mind, the Isaac 1 has physical cues to indicate when it’s working and when it’s not, plus you can start it on-demand or schedule it for specific times.
To blend into the background – I’d say that’s hard for it to do but that’s just me – the Isaac 1 comes in five different colours. I’m not a fan of household robots and really hope they don’t catch on, but the Isaac 1 from Weave Robotics is the first home robot to actually be available to buy, so this might become a trend – whether I want it to or not.
As you might expect, it’ll cost you though. To pre-order the Weave Robotics Isaac 1, you can pay an up-front fee of $7,999 or $449 a month as part of a subscription.
