Yes, there's a real pet robot with a tablet for a face, flapping arms, and a furry neck that stretches about two feet so it can peek over your furniture. It's called OlloBot, it debuted at CES 2026, and the long-neck version runs around $2,000. It's also built to pick up a Myers-Briggs personality the longer you own it. One reporter described it as ET's head on a penguin's body, and I can't unsee that.
What a Two-Foot Furry Neck Does for a Robot With a Screen for a Face
OlloBot comes in two versions: a short fixed neck for roughly $1,000, and a telescoping neck for roughly $2,000. The longer one extends outward to look around the room from different angles, like a periscope wearing a fur coat. The tablet face shows expressions, pictures, and video, and the eyes change shape and brightness to look curious, confused, or calm. It also speaks its own made-up language, with text on screen so you know what it means. It's warm to the touch, which is either charming or a lot, depending on your day. Creepy is more like it.
Why OlloBot Picks Up a Myers-Briggs Personality From You
The robot's personality evolves from how you interact with it, and the company built that around Myers-Briggs types. Psychologists have plenty of complaints about Myers-Briggs as science. As a way to give a robot predictable quirks, it works fine. Your pet ends up an introvert who sulks in the corner, which is relatable.
Why the Robot's Memories Live in a Removable Heart
This is my favorite detail. OlloBot stores its data locally in a heart-shaped module under one arm, not in the cloud. If the body breaks, you pop the heart into a new robot and the memories survive. It's an organ transplant instead of a funeral. The catch is that the robot has cameras for facial recognition and emotional sensing, and cameras in its eyes record memories, so "stored locally" is doing real work here and deserves a look before you buy.
Is a $2,000 Robot Pet With a Neck Worth Buying Yet?
Here's my take. This is a companion robot, not a vacuum or a homework helper, and it knows it. Family members can message it through an app, read its diary, and play games with it, which makes it more interesting than a plush toy with Wi-Fi. But the team said a Kickstarter would launch in summer 2026, and crowdfunded hardware has a long record of arriving late or not at all. Check whether it actually shipped before sending money to a robot with a neck.
