Embodied's companion robot for children, with an animated face and cloud-powered conversation designed to help kids practise social and emotional skills. It launched at $1,500 plus a monthly fee, later sold for about $800, and stopped working after Embodied announced its closure in December 2024 and said it could not offer refunds, leaving only an open-source workaround.
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The pattern in the sources is regret. Only 8% of owners say they would buy it again, and satisfaction falls from 8.5 to 0.5 out of 10 by the two-year mark.
A mid-2024 hands-on review still gave it an Editors' Choice, finding a child engaged by its humorous missions and expressive face. Then Embodied collapsed in December 2024, its cloud servers went dark and owners got no refunds, so most lost the robot entirely unless they managed the OpenMoxie migration.
Parents had to explain to children that their robot was dying. Few families managed the technical OpenMoxie migration. No repairs or service, and payment-plan buyers were left on their own.
It is a real product that works, but its launch reception (75 out of 100 for hype) ran well ahead of how owners feel about it later. Parents had to explain to children that their robot was dying. That gap is what the regret score measures.
Worth it for: Tech-savvy owners willing to run openmoxie; Robotics hobbyists buying used units. Think twice if: Families wanting a lasting companion for a child; Parents without time for technical setup; Children who play rough with toys.
Our reading of how sentiment moves across an ownership period, drawn from the sources below. It is an editorial estimate, not tracked longitudinal data.
| At purchase | 8.5 / 10 |
|---|---|
| First week | 8.5 / 10 |
| One month | 8.0 / 10 |
| Six months | 7.5 / 10 |
| One year | 6.5 / 10 |
| Two years or more | 0.5 / 10 |
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June 2021 report that Moxie cost $1,500 to buy with a $40–60 monthly fee after the first year, or $149 a month to rent.
Editors' Choice review (updated June 2024) at about $800 one-time, praising lifelike conversation and social-skills missions while flagging audio/video data collection and fragility.
The $799 robot relies on cloud-hosted language models; Embodied closed after funding was withdrawn, offers no refunds, repairs or help for payment-plan buyers, and owners posted tearful farewells.
Embodied said finances prevent refunds and it would prioritise purchases from the last 30 days only if able; a parent's TikTok urging buyers to seek compensation drew over 965,000 views.
A former Embodied engineer released OpenMoxie so robots can run locally with a chosen chatbot, but few owners completed the migration, and some now avoid cloud-dependent robots for kids.