Echo comes two ways: a tabletop bust with silicone skin, or a full-body robot that stands up to 77 inches tall with 39 degrees of freedom and weighs 88 pounds.
Either one needs an AI plan to keep talking, starting at $19.99 a month for 10 hours of conversation. The bigger bill lands before Realbotix even builds it.
Price: $11,950 tabletop, $59,950 full-body ($199 deposit)
Available: Second half of 2027, US only
Where to Buy: Realbotix
Personas and Hardware
Echo comes as four personas: Aria, Mila, Dave and Amar. Each one has its own face, voice and backstory, and you tune the personality in the Realbotix app. The hardware and the price don’t change with the face you pick.
The tabletop Echo is a bust on a lit base. It’s 31 or 32 inches tall, weighs 25 pounds, has 17 degrees of freedom and plugs into a regular outlet, while the full-body Echo adds fingers that move one by one, four microphones, stereo cameras and stereo speakers.
It doesn’t walk. Realbotix’s safety page lists the head, face, arms and hands as the moving parts. To stop it, you pull the plug.
Deposit and Payments
The $199 deposit holds a spot in the first production batch and comes off the price. The rest arrives in two bills.
Before Realbotix builds your Echo, it invoices half the price. That’s $5,975 for the tabletop or $29,975 for the full body, due within 30 days. Miss it and your reservation is canceled, and Realbotix keeps the deposit.
The balance, plus shipping, is due before it ships, and sales tax is extra. If you change your mind, the $199 is gone. Per the terms of service, you only get your money back if Realbotix can’t deliver.
Subscription Plans
Base is $19.99 a month for 10 hours of conversation. That’s about 20 minutes a day. Plus is $39.99 for 40 hours and adds more expressive voices and over 100 languages and accents. Enterprise is $199 for 100 hours and lets you build your own characters and plug in your own AI models.
Run out of hours and Echo drops to basic functions. Plans renew every month, unused hours aren’t refunded, and Realbotix says it can change hours and prices with notice.
So a tabletop Echo on Base costs $12,189.88 for the first year, before tax and shipping. The first 50 people to reserve get a $120 plan credit, which covers six months of Base.
Vinci Vision Add-On
Vinci is the camera system that holds eye contact, recognizes who Echo is talking to and reads emotional cues. It’s a $24,950 add-on for either size. It also requires the $199-a-month Enterprise with Vision plan, the only one with unlimited hours. A tabletop Echo with Vinci comes to $36,900.
Realbotix says what Vinci sees stays on Echo and your phone. Conversations work differently. The company says it doesn’t record or store them, but its FAQ also says Echo sends your audio, text and context to third-party AI providers to answer you. Only the Vision plan runs speech and AI on Echo itself.
Production and Warranty
Realbotix builds Echo in Las Vegas. That keeps it clear of the FCC’s new restrictions on foreign-made robots.
Only 225 tabletop and 25 full-body robots are planned for 2027, and each comes with a 12-month limited warranty. You can see one in person at CES 2027 in Las Vegas, January 6 to 9.
One more line from the fine print: some product images on Realbotix’s site are AI-generated renderings, and the robot you get may look different.
Price: $11,950 tabletop, $59,950 full-body ($199 deposit)
Available: Second half of 2027, US only
Where to Buy: Realbotix
If you want an AI companion in the house this year, Loona is a $499 robot pet with voice and gesture control on Amazon.
Price: $499
Where to Buy: Amazon
Reserve the $11,950 tabletop only if you’re ready for a $5,975 invoice and a monthly plan. The face sells Echo. The subscription keeps it talking.
