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The Robo Flat
A Swiss family house at dusk with every window lit. Two humanoid robots stand in the living-room window.

Concept in development · Partners wanted

Robots are moving in.

The Robo Flat is a real family house in Switzerland that we are turning into a home for humanoid robots. Everyday chores are the test track, and the whole house is built to be watched.

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Concept visualisation · AI-generated

The idea

In a lab, folding a towel is a demo. In a real house, it is the test.

A walk through the house · concept visualisation

  • A real house, not a set

    Stairs with a handrail, a kitchen full of ceramics, a lawn, a workshop corner. The house was built for a family, not for robots. That is the point.

  • Robots as residents

    The robots do not drop by for a demo. They live here: laundry, dishes, stairs, garden, day after day, with everything that goes wrong along the way.

  • Made to be watched

    Cameras in the rooms and a control room are part of the plan. Live streams and audience voting come next, and later a streaming platform of its own.

Residents

Meet Nova and Bolt.

They are our concept characters: stand-ins for the real robots our partners will bring into the house.

Nova, a slender white humanoid robot with two small light dots as eyes, standing in a hallway.

Nova

1.6 m · polymer white

Precise and patient. Puts the plates away without a sound and is a little proud of a well-set table.

Bolt, a sturdy graphite-grey humanoid robot with a yellow light strip, holding a cardboard box in a hallway.

Bolt

1.5 m · graphite

Strong and willing. Carries anything you hand over and is not always sure where the door frame is.

The house

Every room is a different test.

Nothing here was simplified for machines. Each room asks for something else.

Nova sits on the edge of a sofa while Bolt adjusts a floor lamp in the living room; a small camera stands on a tripod in the corner.

Living room

Soft things, shared space

Sofas, lamps, cables, towels. Objects that give way, in a room made for people to sit in.

Close-up of Nova placing a ceramic plate into an open kitchen cabinet.

Kitchen

Fragile things

Ceramic plates, glasses, cabinet doors at head height. Precision with consequences.

Bolt climbing a straight wooden staircase with one hand on the handrail, seen from the foot of the stairs.

Stairs

Balance

One wooden staircase, one handrail. The oldest hard problem in the house.

A robot lawn mower on the lawn at dusk while Nova watches from the open terrace door.

Garden

Outdoors

Uneven lawn, changing light, a terrace door, and a lawn mower that is a robot too.

Bolt seated on a charging stand in a tidy workshop corner with tools on a pegboard.

Charging corner

Upkeep

Docks, tools on a pegboard, tidy cables. Where residents recharge and get looked after.

A small control room with monitors showing the rooms of the house and a red emergency stop button in the foreground.

Control room

Safety

Camera feeds from the house and an emergency stop within reach. The house is supervised from here.

You decide · planned

What should they try next?

Once the streams start, the audience picks the next task. Here is a taste. Pick one.

  • Fold the laundry

    One bath towel, one sofa, two hands.

  • Climb the stairs

    Three wooden steps, slowly.

  • Set the table

    Plates, glasses, and the last glass placed just right.

Formats · planned

Four formats to start with.

Short vertical clips for the feeds, next to the long streams from the house.

  • Fail of the week

    When the door frame wins.

  • The duel

    Two robots, one task, one finish line.

  • New arrival

    A crate at the door. A new resident steps out.

  • The challenge

    One wobbly tower, any number of attempts.

Partners

Room available.

The house is set. The residents, the backers and the crew are what we are putting together now.

  • Robot makers

    Bring your humanoid and run your own tests in a real family house: stairs, kitchen, garden and all.

    You bring
    One or more robots and your own test plan.
    You get
    A real home as a test environment, and a place in the formats and streams as they launch.

  • Sponsors

    Back the house and be seen in it: in the rooms, in the formats and, later, on the stream.

    You bring
    Budget, products or equipment for the house.
    You get
    Presence in the house and its content. We are early, so we shape it together.

  • Tech & media

    Cameras, connectivity, streaming, smart-home gear, research, press.

    You bring
    The know-how or the reach to build and tell the story.
    You get
    A hands-on role in a house that does not exist anywhere else yet.

Write to us hello@theroboflat.com

Roadmap

From an idea to a stream.

  1. Now

    Concept and partners

    The house is set. We are talking to robot makers, sponsors and partners.

  2. Next

    Setting up the house

    Cameras, charging corner, control room. The first residents move in.

  3. Then

    Live streams and voting

    Watch the robots at work and vote on what they try next.

  4. Later

    A streaming platform

    One home for every stream, format and resident.

Contact

Want to move in?

Tell us who you are and what you would bring: a robot, a budget, a camera rig, a question. One email is enough to start.

hello@theroboflat.com