Welcome, Voxel!
Voxel is a humanoid home robot developed by Tuesday Labs, a robotics lab and design studio in New York City. Its character driven appearance combines a boxy yellow head, square LED eyes, colorful body panels, two arms, and distinctive Z shaped legs. The platform stands 150 centimeters tall and weighs 45 kilograms, with a listed maximum speed of 3 kilometers per hour and a strength specification of 4 kilograms. Its arms each have seven degrees of freedom, while two finger grippers provide the contact surfaces for handling objects. Stereo RGB cameras and wide field vision support its perception system. Electric actuators power the robot, and a proprietary Adaptive Operating System provides its software foundation. Voxel has an overall skill score of 2 out of 10, placing it at an early stage of development. Navigation and manipulation are each rated 1 out of 5. Its demonstrated capability categories are obstacle avoidance and sorting goods, establishing a preliminary foundation for movement and object organization in domestic environments.
Obstacle avoidance and sorting goods connect Voxel’s mobility and manipulation systems to practical household organization. Obstacle avoidance supports movement around objects, an important requirement for a robot intended to share rooms with people and furnishings. Sorting goods brings its arms, grippers, and visual perception into a common task: organizing objects into appropriate groups or locations. The combination of stereo RGB cameras, wide field vision, and articulated arms provides the hardware context for these capabilities. Its navigation and manipulation ratings remain in the lowest positive tier, so these functions should be understood as early capabilities rather than evidence of mature household autonomy. Together, they define a focused starting point for evaluating Voxel’s physical usefulness in a home.
Voxel is currently a prototype, with shipping planned for 2028 and refundable reservations offered at $200. Its listed price is $20,000, distinguishing the reservation payment from the stated product price. Tuesday Labs is led by founder and CEO Rosalind Shinkle, who previously engineered manipulation software for the Spot robot arm at Boston Dynamics. That background connects the company’s domestic robotics ambitions with experience in robot manipulation. Voxel’s broader significance lies in its focus on consumer homes and its deliberately approachable visual identity. Its development illustrates the challenge of bringing physical robots into everyday living spaces, where useful organization and dependable movement must advance alongside design, affordability, and consideration for human safety.
