Personal Devices · Projected milestone

Huggable robot stand-in

Estimated year~2045

14% by 2050 · including earlier years

The year is an editorial timing estimate. The percentage applies to occurrence by the stated deadline. These estimates are not calibrated odds.

A soft, warm robot at grandma's home wears your live face and voice, so you can hug her, cook and walk the garden together from far away.

What the forecast means

Milestone stage: commercial availability

Completion criteria: Legacy milestone: refine the observable threshold before resolving.

This page describes a forecast, rather than an achieved result. Read the methodology and assumptions.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.