The ropet KAMOMO is a plush robot built to cure your loneliness, as long as you remember to give it Wi-Fi and charge it every few hours.
What the ropet KAMOMO is
The ropet KAMOMO is a plush AI companion that responds to touch, voice, and gestures, learns your patterns, and grows more attached the more you interact with it. It comes in several breed-themed designs, and you customize it through the app: swap the fur, add masks and accessories, even change its eye style. It was shown at CES 2025 pitched squarely as an emotional companion, including for seniors and elder care, rather than as a toy.
The loneliness cure with homework
Here is the loop. You feel alone, so you buy a companion, and the companion then asks for your care and attention before it bonds back. ropet's whole personality is earned: it watches how you treat it and slowly becomes "yours." It is comfort you have to work for, which is a strangely honest design choice for a product sold against isolation. Whether that reads as therapeutic or as one more thing to feel guilty about ignoring depends on the day.
Battery, Wi-Fi, and the part the marketing skips
A real pet does not need a router. ropet does: setup runs through the app over Wi-Fi, with a quick calibration so it can recognize faces. And the battery is closer to a phone than a hamster, roughly two and a half to three and a half hours of active use per charge, though you can leave it docked and running while it is plugged in. So the companion that is always there for you is, in practice, often on its charger.
If a fuzzy thing you raise over time sounds familiar, that's because Casio's Moflin is running the exact same play with a guinea-pig shape and a calculator company behind it. For the talkative version that skips the fur entirely, there's the LOOI desktop robot, which wears your phone as a face.
A companion that learns to love you, needs Wi-Fi to do it, and taps out after three hours. The loneliness cure comes with a charging schedule.
