AitopkitAiMOGA Robotics — the robotics brand of Chinese automaker Chery — will officially showcase Mobo, its first consumer-grade humanoid robot built for home companionship, and open global pre-orders at the 2026 Chery International User Summit in Wuhu, China, running October 19–23, according to an October 16 announcement.
Mobo is designed to live in the home, not the warehouse. The announcement describes a full-body humanoid with 22 degrees of freedom — enabling expressive gestures, stable movement and, reportedly, dance routines — plus spatial perception and multimodal interaction through voice, visual information and conversational context. It navigates home environments with dynamic obstacle avoidance and is said to remember individual family members' habits and preferences, with privacy protection built in from the start (per the company's own claim — independent verification will have to wait for third-party reviews).
The interesting part is the AI layer. Mobo runs AiMOGA's proprietary MoAgent system, which is pitched as goal-driven rather than command-driven: the robot interprets complex instructions, divides them into actionable steps, and plans longer-term tasks instead of simply responding to isolated commands. That's the industry's current dividing line between a voice assistant on legs and something closer to a genuinely useful home robot — whether Mobo actually crosses it is the question every early demo has to answer.
This isn't Mobo's first appearance: it was previously exhibited at the World Robot Conference and the World Manufacturing Convention. The October summit is its formal global showcase, and Chery is framing it as proof that automotive engineering, manufacturing and supply-chain muscle transfers into embodied AI and what it calls "intelligent living."
Chery's underlying argument is that car-making and robot-making share the same DNA: precision manufacturing, mature supply chains, and software that runs at fleet scale. It's the case the broader auto industry keeps making as it pushes into humanoids — robot bodies need the kind of factories and parts pipelines that automakers already operate. The open question is whether that transfers into a robot people genuinely want to live with. Companionship is judged in living rooms, not on spec sheets, and home robots from startups and tech giants alike have a long trail of big launches followed by quiet endings. Mobo will be graded on the same curve: not the demo, but whether units ship, work reliably, and earn their place in a home.
What's missing from the announcement: no price, no shipping dates, no per-market availability. Home robots have a long history of spectacular demos and soft launches — treat pre-order announcements as marketing events until real terms, real reviews and real delivery dates exist. If you're tempted, wait for the summit: hands-on coverage from October 19 onward should answer the questions that matter.