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Intuition Robotics

ElliQ 3

Name: ElliQ 3
Brand: Intuition Robotics

A stationary voice companion designed specifically for aging adults, not a general-purpose robot. The subscription model gates core features, requiring ongoing commitment for the intended daily check-in experience.

Price$249.99 list priceRetail price not tracked

Autonomy Ladder

Why Level I.

One five-rung scale, every category, from acting only on command to working unsupervised anywhere.

VGeneralized AutonomyAny task, any setting. No consumer robot has reached it.
IVEnvironmental AutonomyCopes with everyday clutter and frees itself, shown by independent testing.
IIIConditional AutonomyFinishes whole jobs in familiar spaces; struggles at the edges.
IIAssisted AutonomyRuns preset routines; stalls at anything new.
To reach Level IIRuns a scheduled routine end to end without a command for each step.
IManual AutomationThis robot

ElliQ 3 acts only on command, one motion at a time.

Navigation and control

Stationary; no locomotion. Motorized head swivels and tilts for nonverbal cues. Voice interaction with cloud processing.
Why this level
- ElliQ does not move and does not navigate.
- It sits where it is placed, and its motorized head swivels, tilts, and lights up to carry nonverbal cues.
- What it does do is start the interaction rather than wait for one.
- Since the third generation, launched January 9, 2024, the dialogue runs on generative AI built on large language models, which Intuition Robotics describes as supporting natural conversation across a virtually infinite number of topics.
- The stored classification is Level I, and it reflects the absence of any physical task or environmental capability, not a scripted interaction model.
Autonomy dimension 15 / 100 · 2 sources reviewed

How we assign a level →

Behind the classification

Sources we reviewed.

Provisional2 sources reviewed

Enough has been reviewed to classify, but gaps remain across source types.

Sources reviewed

Monitoring record2 sourcesReviewed

Sources behind the tracker entries following this robot.

Also monitored, nothing listed yet

Manufacturer documentationReviewed

Intuition Robotics official ElliQ product page, subscription tier details, privacy policy.

Press & video reviewsReviewed

News coverage of ElliQ 3 launch and user testimonial pieces from tech publications.

Owner reportsOngoing

Family member feedback and elder user forums documenting subscription value and voice-recognition reliability.

How we evaluate evidence →

Human Readiness

Ready Now.

One question: what does buying this robot today walk you into? The state is computed from the record, and recomputed daily.

Ready NowThis robot

ElliQ 3 is on sale, assessed, and nothing on its record argues for waiting.
How this was derived
- Shipping past the first-90-day ownership window with a published assessment, no documented issues on record, and no announced successor.
Notes on the record
- ElliQ 3 ships to consumers with documented subscription pricing and retail availability.
- Target demographic (aging adults) reports engagement via published case studies.
- Setup involves app pairing and Wi-Fi connection.
On the record
- Shipping since January 2024 · 32 months on the market
- No successor announced
- 2 sources reviewed
What would move it
A documented problem, an announced successor, or a withdrawn listing moves it out; the rating recomputes daily.
New to MarketOn sale under 90 days; the ownership record is still forming.
WaitA successor is announced and has not shipped; re-read the decision when it arrives.
Known IssuesDocumented problems stand on the record; read the case before buying.

How we assess readiness →

Robovations Score

How this number was reached

65of 100

CapableAt or above 39% of the 436 robots we scoreand 79% of the 24 scored specialty robots

DeficientLimitedCapableStrongExemplary

Measured on 8 of the 9 inputs16% not counted

Our assessment did not establish an independent source for field failure rate on this machine, so that input is left out of the score rather than guessed at, and the rest re-weighted to fill the space. A gap in what we have been able to verify is not evidence against the robot. Where a whole pillar has nothing measured, we publish no number at all.

What moved itpoints gained or lost against a typical robot

Carried by

Routine maintenance100+4.0
Edge-case recovery60+0.8

Held back by

Support longevity40−2.2
Consumables54−1.2

Capability40% of the score68What it does without you.

Task completion16% of the score72

Evidence

Healthcare IT Today (healthcareittoday.com), written by a reviewer who placed a loaned unit in his father-in-law's rural Utah home, reports that once a family member connected Wi-Fi and added contacts, the older man was playing games with ElliQ and listening to music it chose within days, with nobody prompting him. The proactive engagement job runs on its own after a human completes setup.

Coverage and navigation10% of the score70

Evidence

seniormediahub.com's first-person account describes ElliQ greeting his mother each morning without a wake word, suggesting trivia after lunch and bringing up the previous day's conversation again, so context is retained between sessions; Wikipedia cites a NYSOFA report of roughly 20 daily interactions on average across the 800-plus units delivered. Its reach is bounded by the one table it sits on and the person being in front of it.

Edge-case recovery10% of the score60

Evidence

The Senior List (theseniorlist.com) reports that on making a request a strange screen appears on the tablet and the whole system freezes for several minutes before restarting itself, which happened multiple times during testing; Reviewed (reviewed.com) hit an error message during setup that cleared only after powering the unit down and starting it again.

Operating envelope4% of the score68

Evidence

Reviewed (reviewed.com) tested it with a mother who has dementia and Parkinson's, whose speech is often soft and jumbled, and found ElliQ frequently could not interpret her spoken answer so she tapped the on-screen option instead; Healthcare IT Today ran it successfully in a rural Utah home with a self-described non-tech-savvy user, and the PMC case description (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, co-authored with the company) records deployment across 15 programs in US and Canadian homes.

Dependability40% of the score55Whether it keeps doing it.

Field failure ratenot countedno source verified56

Evidence

The third generation launched January 2024, about two and a half years, but there is no failure record of any kind: no recall, no systemic defect and no recurring mode documented in either direction. All three evidence sources are unlinked and the owner reporting covers subscription value and voice recognition rather than failures. Absence of a failure record is absence of evidence, and this is a low-volume subscription device distributed substantially through aging-services programs where public owner reporting does not accumulate. One structural exposure belongs here: the device is inert without both the subscription and the network, and no continuity arrangement is documented for either.

Software stability14% of the score65

Evidence

Updates ship, and one of them was substantial: the third generation moved the dialogue onto large language models in January 2024 on a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth device backed by a subscription service, so the channel is live and materially used. What it changed for users is unrecorded. There is no changelog, no versioned release history, no independent account of a regression or a fix, all three evidence sources are unlinked, and the press coverage is launch and testimonial material. No owner reports the LLM change removing something the previous dialogue did. Updates ship, no regression pattern is reported, and there is no independent record either way.

Support longevity10% of the score40

Evidence

Scored as commitments, and the subscription is the whole support model, which cuts both ways. Published subscription pricing and a live service funded by a recurring fee is a genuine commitment, and Intuition Robotics is a going concern. Against that there is no published parts channel, no repair channel, no end-of-support commitment and nothing documented that preserves any function if the service stops, so the five-year exposure is a $359.88 annual obligation against a service that can be withdrawn. That matters more than usual here because the product is placed with aging adults for whom an interruption is not a convenience question.

Ownership burden20% of the score82What it asks of you.

Routine maintenance12% of the score100

Evidence

Near zero hands-on time, and deliberately so: nothing to clean, empty, refill, anchor or replace. The whole schedule is a weekly Wi-Fi status check and a review of the family app for missed check-ins, a monthly subscription check and a voice-recognition test command, and an annual renewal review. Note that all of those land on the family member rather than the resident, which is the design intent. Not scored higher because a machine with no work surfaces to maintain is not thereby low-burden by achievement, and the monthly test command exists because the device does not report its own recognition failures.

Consumables8% of the score54

Evidence

There are no consumable parts at all, and that earns little: there is nothing to buy because the device performs no physical work on anything, which is absence rather than achievement. What the owner actually pays on a recurring basis dwarfs the consumable line, since the $359.88 annual plan costs more each year than the $249.99 device did once, and that is recorded in cost_five_year. No replacement part, repair price or service channel is published either, so a hardware failure has no costed path.

middle half of the databaseits medianthis robot

Reported, not scoredneither measures how well the robot works

Five-year cost$2,049

Dominated by the subscription rather than the hardware, which is unusual in this corpus. $249.99 to enroll once plus $1,799.40 across five years on the annual plan ElliQ's own store lists at $359.88. The subscription does not gate a headline feature, it gates every feature: reminders, check-ins and conversation all stop on cancellation and the device is inert until it is renewed. Monthly plans are reported between $39.99 and $59.99, which over the same five years would reach roughly $2,400 to $3,600 in subscription alone.

Data postureCloud-dependent

Core function stops without the vendor cloud.

What leaves the homeNot documented

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FIT CHECK

Will the ElliQ 3 fit your application?

Describe your use case using the controls. Each choice reads the spec sheet for you, flagging where the ElliQ 3 is built for your space and where it isn’t.

Family involvement

Living situation

Tech comfort

Interaction style

A classification of fit for the conditions you set, not a recommendation. Verdicts describe engineering design intent, not test results.

OWNERSHIP

Living with it.

Stable performance for voice interaction; cloud-side outages reported by owner community occasionally interrupt daily routines.

Stableowner-reported arc

The record so far

No documented hardware failures in reviews. Subscription-related service interruptions are the primary pain point, not device defects. Multi-year installed base with consistent voice-recognition capability.

What goes wrong3 documented · 2 self-recover

Occasional

Wi-Fi disconnectionInterrupts daily check-in and medication reminders

Self-recoversReconnect to Wi-Fi via app settings; typically restores within minutes

Occasional

Voice recognition errorsMisinterprets commands or misses specific medication names

Owner fixRe-state the command or repeat the medication name; no persistent fix

Rare

Subscription service outageBlocks voice interaction and all engagement features

Self-recoversWait for service restoration; no user action required

Upkeep routine

Weekly52×/yr

Check Wi-Fi connection status and family app for missed check-ins.

Monthly12×/yr

Verify subscription status and test voice recognition with a test command.

Yearly1×/yr

Review subscription renewal date to prevent service interruption.

Cost over time

$249 to buy, with no regularly replaced parts. The purchase price is effectively the full cost of ownership.

Safety notes1 caution · 1 note

CautionMedication reminder accuracyVoice recognition can mishear medication names. Family should verify critical reminders via companion app.
Subscription dependencyCancellation disables all functionality immediately. Plan renewal to avoid gaps in daily engagement.

SPECIFICATION

The full spec sheet.

Priced below the category median, with every figure charted against the category below.

Dimensional drawing

Key specificationsManufacturer-published

FootprintThe width, depth and height of the robot itself, without its dock.: 5.1 × 3.5 in · 8.3 in tall
WeightThe robot alone, without its dock, as the maker states it.: 1.5 lbs
Wi-FiThe bands the robot can join; many models need a 2.4 GHz network to set up.: Supported

Where it lands · ranked across 44 specialty robotsThis robotMedianTypical range

PriceThe maker's list price, not a price found in a shop.$249.99

$29$100,000

Bottom of range

WeightThe robot alone, without its dock, as the maker states it.1.5lbs

0.09 lbs132+ lbs

Bottom of range

Position shows where the figure sits across the tracked category, not a quality judgment.

RECORD

How the assessment has moved.

Every announcement, release and reassessment behind the current classification.

Coming soon

Just launched

Active updates

Settled

Discontinued

Sep 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score revised 66 → 65
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRecord status: Verified → Provisional
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score rescored under v4.2: 53 → 66
Jul 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score recorded at 53 of 100
Mar 2024 · NewsNew York State agency deploys ElliQ 3 to thousands of older adults
Jan 2024 · UpdateElliQ integrates large language model for open-ended conversation capability

Editorial comparisons

How ElliQ 3 compares.

All comparisons →

Goal-based

Specialty Robots4 robots

Which companion robot is right for your home?

Sony Aibo ERS-1000, ElliQ 3, temi V3, and Enabot EBO X share the companion-robot label but diverge sharply: behavioral play, eldercare wellness, mobile telepresence, and a multi-role monitoring generalist. Autonomy…

vs Sony Aibo ERS-1000 · temi V3 · Enabot EBO X

Common questions

What people actually ask.

5 answered

OperationDoes ElliQ 3 work without an internet connection?

No. Cloud processing is mandatory for voice recognition and daily engagement features. Offline operation yields no functionality.

OperationWhat happens to my reminders if I cancel the subscription?

All reminders, check-ins, and conversation stop; the device is inert until the subscription is renewed. The recurring plan is the larger cost: ElliQ’s store lists an annual plan at $359.88, separate from the $249.99 one-time enrollment fee.

OperationCan family members monitor the elder's daily activity?

Yes. The companion app logs check-in activity and allows family notifications; this requires the family member to maintain app access.

OperationDoes ElliQ 3 make video calls?

Yes, with family contacts set in the app. Video call quality depends on home internet bandwidth.

OperationWhat if the user has hearing loss?

The device screen carries visual feedback alongside the speech. Intuition Robotics does not publish accessibility guidance for hearing loss, so there is nothing from the manufacturer to plan a hard-of-hearing setup against.

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ElliQ 3

Will the ElliQ 3 fit your application?

Living with it.

The full spec sheet.

How the assessment has moved.

How ElliQ 3 compares.

Which companion robot is right for your home?

What people actually ask.

ElliQ 3 in the analysis archive.

Are companion robots autonomous? What they do without being asked

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