Meet Isaac 1: The $7,999 Home Robot That Folds Your Laundry and Tidies Your Rooms
San Francisco startup Weave Robotics is taking pre-orders for a wheeled, cartoon-faced humanoid robot designed to handle daily chores. Deliveries start this autumn.
Key points
- Weave Robotics priced Isaac 1 at $7,999 upfront, or $449 per month on a subscription plan.
- The robot adjusts in height from 3 feet to 5 feet 9 inches, letting it reach the floor and high shelves.
- Isaac 1's battery lasts eight hours and recharges fully in two hours.
- Camera shutters on the robot's head give a clear visual signal showing when it is actively working and when it is not.
- Weave Robotics plans to begin deliveries in autumn 2025.
A home robot that folds laundry, tidies rooms and makes beds sounded like science fiction for decades. Weave Robotics, a startup based in San Francisco, wants to make it a Tuesday morning.
The company has just unveiled Isaac 1, a wheeled home robot built for the low-level chores that eat up hours every week. It costs $7,999 to buy outright, or $449 a month on subscription. Deliveries are scheduled to start this autumn.
Isaac 1 isn't the tall, intimidating humanoid you might picture. It has a cartoon-like face and a body wrapped in soft fabric over a solid inner frame, sitting on a wheeled base that keeps it stable without legs. Weave wanted something that feels safe to have around the home.
The height range is genuinely useful. Isaac 1 collapses to 3 feet tall to pick items off the floor, then extends to 5 feet 9 inches to reach a counter or a higher shelf. Two arms fitted with two-finger grippers do the actual grabbing.
It navigates your home on its own, moving room to room to finish a task or rolling back to its dock between jobs. Schedule tasks through a companion smartphone app, or assign new work remotely while you're out. You could start a laundry fold from your lunch break.
Practical numbers: eight hours of battery covers a full working day, and a two-hour recharge means it's back quickly. The charging dock includes a privacy screen so the robot stays out of sight while it's resting.
Should owners worry about being watched?
No. Isaac 1 has physical shutters that close over its head cameras when the robot isn't actively working. You can see at a glance whether it's observing, with no guesswork needed. That kind of visible, physical privacy cue is rare on consumer robots right now, and it matters: most privacy controls on smart home devices are buried in software menus nobody checks.
Isaac 0 came first. That earlier model was stationary, focused on folding laundry in homes and at commercial laundry services in the San Francisco area. The work it did there trained the AI model now powering Isaac 1's broader skill set.
Isaac 1 receives ongoing software updates, so its abilities should grow the longer you own it. At $449 a month, you're spending roughly what a part-time cleaner costs in many cities. Weave's real challenge isn't the price comparison; it's proving the robot can do the job reliably enough that the comparison holds up week after week.
