About
Five people, one robot, and a year of figuring it out together.
We're the Abbott family — two parents, twin daughters, and a son. About a year ago a small humanoid robot moved in. What started as a curiosity became a part of how our home runs: it greets the kids, handles the morning logistics, plays games, and gets reprogrammed by the people who live with it.
We keep our real names and faces off this site on purpose. Not because we're hiding — because the interesting thing here isn't us. It's what happens when a humanoid robot stops being a demo and becomes a member of a household. We're documenting that honestly: the delight, the awkwardness, and the engineering it takes to make it real.
Why we're doing this
The first generation of people to live with humanoid robots will learn things that can't be discovered in a lab. What it feels like at 7am. What a six-year-old expects from it. Which capabilities get used daily and which get used once. We're keeping a careful record because we think that record is genuinely useful to the teams building these machines.
We're also doing it because it's fun, and because our kids are growing up treating a robot as something you can author, not just operate. That shift — from user to maker — is the thing we're most excited to share.
The household
First names and initials only — and every face here is a drawing, on purpose. What matters is what each of us has taught the robot.
Jake
Dad · BuilderWrites the code. Jake built the whole system from scratch — the agents, the motion engine, the backend — in evenings and weekends. He treats the robot as a real product with a customer base of five.
Taught the robot: The entire platform: voice brain, motion primitives, the backend that keeps it alive.
Megan
Mom · Co-captainRuns the household the robot supports. Megan is the toughest product reviewer in the house — if a feature does not actually make a day easier, it does not survive. Calendar and dinner flow are hers.
Taught the robot: A calmer evening: calendar-only nightly notes, recipe capture, the grocery loop.
M.
Twin daughter · 12One of the twins. Asks the robot for peek-a-boo and rock-paper-scissors, and has started saving her own dance moves into it.
Taught the robot: Named gestures and play routines — she is one of its first programmers.
K.
Twin daughter · 12The other twin. The robot is a creative tool for her — she choreographs to music and tests whether it can keep the beat.
Taught the robot: Dance choreography and beat-matched motion sequences.
K.
Son · 14The oldest. Interested in how it actually works — the closest thing the project has to a junior engineer. Pushes on the edges of what it can do.
Taught the robot: How to extend it — the bridge between using the robot and building for it.
The robot
Member · 6thA desk-sized humanoid that lives on its own and wakes to its name. It has five personalities — one for each of us — and remembers what each person likes.
Taught us: what we actually want from a robot at home.
Curious what it actually does all day?
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