Realbotix is taking $199 deposits on a $59,950 humanoid robot due in 2027
Realbotix opened preorders October 26, 2026, for Echo, a humanoid priced at $11,950 or $59,950, with a $199 deposit holding a line spot in a run capped at 225 and 25 units. Delivery is promised for late 2027. Three days earlier, the company's merger partner advanced it another bridge-loan payment just to cover working capital, while the merger itself, announced in February, still had not closed.
Realbotix Corp opened preorders on October 26, 2026, for Echo, a two-tier line of AI companion robots. A $199 deposit holds a place in the first production run: 225 units of the $11,950 Echo Tabletop, a desktop-height, seventeen-joint unit about 32 inches tall, and 25 units of the $59,950 Echo Full Body, a thirty-nine-joint humanoid standing six to six-and-a-half feet depending on configuration.
Nothing has shipped yet. Both the Tabletop and the Full Body remain unbuilt for every buyer in this first run. Realbotix’s own announcement lists monthly AI tiers starting at $19.99, layering ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini access onto four selectable personas, without saying what the robot still does once that subscription lapses.
Conversation histories and facial-recognition data are stored on the device itself, the announcement says, with the company adding that it does not receive, store or review them.
If you are weighing whether to fund a home robot before it exists, the deposit is open now. The two tiers sit far apart in price, one near a laptop, the other near a used car, and both carry the same promised delivery: the second half of 2027, about fourteen months from the announcement.
Three days before the launch, Realbotix’s lender and merger partner, Onconetix, advanced another $500,000 under a bridge loan, lifting the total drawn to $3 million of a $5 million facility. “This loan provides for greater commitment and certainty from both sides to complete the transaction,” Realbotix chief executive Andrew Kiguel said in the loan announcement. The money covers working capital.
The loan carries no interest unless that merger falls through, at which point it converts to 12 percent annually. A company drawing an additional advance from its own acquirer to cover costs, three days before taking deposits on hardware due in 2027, is still in business on borrowed money. The merger underwriting that loan was announced in February 2026, and more than eight months later it still had not closed.
