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, makes beds, and picks toys off the floor sounds like science fiction. 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 designed to handle the kind of low-level chores that eat up hours every week. It costs $7,999 to buy outright, or $449 a month if you would rather spread the cost. Deliveries are scheduled to start this autumn.
Isaac 1 is not the tall, intimidating humanoid you might picture. It has a cartoon-like face, a body wrapped in soft, swappable fabric, and a wheeled base that keeps it stable without needing to balance on legs. The design is deliberate. Weave wanted something that feels safe to have around the home, not something that makes the cat flee the room.
The height is where it gets clever. Isaac 1 can collapse down to 3 feet tall to pick items off the floor, then extend up to 5 feet 9 inches to reach a counter or a shelf. Two arms fitted with two-finger grippers handle the actual grabbing and placing.
The robot navigates your home on its own, moving from room to room to finish a task or rolling back to its charging station between jobs. You schedule tasks through a companion smartphone app and can check in remotely while you are out, so you could start a laundry fold from your lunch break.
Practical details matter here. Eight hours of battery life covers a full working day. A two-hour recharge means it is not sitting idle for long. The charging dock also includes a privacy screen so the robot is out of sight when it is resting.
Should owners worry about being watched?
No, and Weave has thought about this specifically. Isaac 1 has physical shutters that close over its head cameras when the robot is not actively working. You can see at a glance whether it is switched on and observing, no guesswork required. That kind of visible, physical privacy cue is rare on consumer robots right now.
Isaac 1 is not Weave's first robot. The earlier Isaac 0, first reported by The Robot Report, was a stationary model that folded laundry at home and at commercial laundry services in the San Francisco area. That experience trained the AI model, the decision-making software, that now powers Isaac 1's broader skill set.
Isaac 1 receives ongoing software updates over time, meaning its abilities should improve the longer you own it. Whether the price point finds an audience will be the real test. At $449 a month, you are spending about the same as a part-time cleaner. The question Weave has to answer is simple: can a robot actually do the job well enough to be worth it?
