Realbotix Rebrands Its Echo Humanoid Range: Series 1 Ahead of 2027 Deliveries

Realbotix has dropped the Echo name. The Las Vegas company, which trades on the TSX Venture Exchange as XBOT, said on Nov. 4 that its flagship humanoid robots will now be sold as Realbotix Series 1. Echo launched on Oct. 26, so the new name arrives about nine days after the old one debuted. 

Realbotix says the change avoids trademark concerns and puts the product line under its own brand. It doesn't say what the concerns were. The company is firm that this is a name swap and nothing more. Specifications, pricing, production plans, character options and the ordering process all stay as they were. 

CEO Andrew Kiguel says the Realbotix name already stands for lifelike humanoids with ultra-realistic silicone skin and detailed facial expressions. He also says these aren't remote-controlled machines. According to the company, they think, decide and talk on their own, each with its own personality and on-device intelligence. Those claims come from Realbotix itself. 

Two versions are on offer. The Tabletop is a compact desktop companion with 17 degrees of freedom, priced at $11,950. It weighs about 25 pounds and stands 32 inches tall, and its face and neck are covered in the silicone skin. Realbotix pitches it for one-on-one education, therapy and personal wellness. The Full Body model has 39 degrees of freedom and fluid upper-body movement. It costs $59,950, weighs about 88 pounds and stands 72 inches tall in the female version or 77 inches in the male one. Skin covers its face, neck and arms from the elbows down, hands included. 

Buyers pick from four characters named Aria, Mila, Dave and Amar, each with its own voice and style. The robots handle more than 100 languages and plug into AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Running one requires a monthly subscription to the Realbotix configuration app, which starts at $19.99. An optional vision upgrade called Vinci processes conversations and visual understanding locally, and can recognize faces, read emotional cues and track gaze. 

For anyone hoping to get one soon, here's the catch. The first production run is small: 225 Tabletop units and 25 Full Body units, due in the second half of 2027. Orders go through Realbotix's own website, and a $199 deposit reserves a spot in that first batch. Organizations wanting 10 or more units can ask for volume pricing. At list prices, the whole first run works out to roughly $4.2 million, before add-ons and subscriptions. 

Realbotix says the robots are built for companionship, education and wellness in both consumer and enterprise settings. That broad pitch gets its first public tests soon, with live demonstrations planned for the Humanoid Summit in Silicon Valley on Dec. 1 and 2, and for CES 2027 in Las Vegas from Jan. 6 to 9.

One more piece of background: Realbotix is also working through a proposed merger with Onconetix, and it has been drawing on a bridge loan from that company.