Welcome, Tobi!
Tobi is a semi humanoid caregiving robot created by Two Labs for nursing homes, assisted living, and senior care facilities. It combines a humanlike upper body with a stable mobile base, aiming for calm presence and practical mobility inside indoor care environments. With a total Humanoid.Guide score of 2, it sits in an early stage tier, with a lower navigation rating of 1 out of 5 and a lower manipulation rating of 1 out of 5. The platform stands 150 centimeters tall, weighs 60 kilograms, reaches a top speed of 4 kilometers per hour, and is built for safe operation around people. Its stated lifting capacity is 5 kilograms, and its runtime is 5 hours per charge. Tobi uses Wi Fi, Bluetooth, and facility network integration, and it includes LLM integration for higher level interaction workflows. The machine has 16 total degrees of freedom and 10 fingers, with an aluminum frame and soft touch polymer covers intended to make it look more approachable in care settings. Overall, Tobi is positioned as a practical, resident friendly robot rather than a high performance industrial humanoid.
Tobi includes two currently highlighted physical capabilities, obstacle avoidance and sorting goods. Obstacle avoidance is important for a caregiving robot that must move through hallways, resident rooms, and shared spaces without creating stress or unsafe interactions. Even with an early stage navigation tier, this function gives the platform a baseline for indoor mobility and makes it more suitable for structured facilities than for chaotic outdoor settings. Sorting goods points to basic manipulation and organization tasks, which can support care staff by helping arrange supplies, separate items, or place objects into simple categories. Together, these capabilities show that Tobi is being shaped around practical facility workflows, where reliable movement and light handling can matter more than athletic locomotion or complex whole body performance.
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Tobi is currently a prototype and is not available for direct purchase. Two Labs, the San Francisco company behind it, has backing from Y Combinator and is using that support to develop a humanoid platform aimed squarely at elder care. The robot stands out because many humanoid programs chase warehouse, logistics, or factory work, while Tobi is centered on nursing homes and senior living. That market focus gives it strategic importance even at an early stage, since care facilities need automation that is safe with humans, compact enough for indoor use, and acceptable in everyday social environments. If Two Labs can turn the concept into a dependable deployed system, Tobi could help define a specialized caregiving category within the broader humanoid field.
