Healthy aging and connection
NanaBot is a friendly low-cost robot that lives in the home of an older adult. It chats with them throughout the day, reminds them to take their medicine, and watches for falls, so families can feel reassured even when they can’t be there in person.
It plugs into the wall, connects to home Wi-Fi, and needs no technical know-how from the person using it. A family member sets it up once, and NanaBot takes it from there.
Conversation, medicine reminders, and fall detection in one friendly robot you can make your own.
What NanaBot does
NanaBot holds warm, natural conversations. Just say its wake word and talk. It answers in a calm, clear voice, and its animated eyes and screen react as it listens and speaks.
Its personality is patient and gentle, like a kind nurse who always has time for a chat.
NanaBot will remember the people, stories, and preferences that make each person who they are: a grandchild’s name, a favorite song, how their knee felt last week, or that they prefer tea in the afternoon.
Over time, every conversation will feel like catching up with someone who knows them, not starting over with a stranger.
NanaBot uses a small built-in vision chip to recognize people in the room. It learns each person’s normal standing height and follows how their posture changes from moment to moment.
That lets it tell a real fall apart from sitting down, crouching, or lying down on purpose, so it raises the alarm when it matters and stays quiet when it doesn’t.
No wearable is needed, and nobody has to remember to press a button. NanaBot does not contact emergency services. Read more below.
At each scheduled time, NanaBot plays a chime, shows the medicine on screen, and says it aloud. If the reminder isn’t confirmed, NanaBot gently repeats it every minute until the person says they’ve taken it.
Tell NanaBot what’s in the fridge and any dietary needs, such as diabetic-friendly, low salt, or allergies, and it suggests suitable recipes on screen.
Make it yours
NanaBot’s appearance is designed to be customized and built by the people who use it. We offer tools that let you shape how your NanaBot looks, in the spirit of a maker community.
Customize NanaBot’s appearance with the tools we provide, so it feels like it belongs in the home it lives in.
DIY is part of the design. You can build and personalize your own NanaBot.
Like building-block hobbies, DIY is better together. Makers can share ideas and designs with each other.
Illustration. Colors and accessories shown are examples.
See NanaBot in action
Four short animations show how NanaBot fits into everyday life at home.
Animated illustrations, not footage. Scenes loop automatically; use the button on the animation to pause.
For caregivers
Caregivers sign in to the NanaBot dashboard from any web browser. Each account only shows the devices that family owns.
Your NanaBot devices at a glance
Privacy
NanaBot is designed for the most personal place there is: someone’s home.
The camera is only used for fall detection, and images are processed inside NanaBot itself. No photos or video are ever sent or saved.
NanaBot doesn’t send any audio until it hears its name.
Speech is converted to text and the audio is deleted right away.
Only the caregivers you register can see your NanaBot’s information.
Getting started
A family member does this once. The person living with NanaBot needs no technical know-how.
NanaBot plugs into a standard wall outlet and is designed to stay in one room, such as the living room or bedroom. It doesn’t need to be charged.
Connect NanaBot to the home Wi-Fi network (2.4 GHz).
Add NanaBot to the caregiver dashboard. After that, NanaBot takes it from there.
Most families are done in a few minutes.
FAQ
Medicine reminders and fall alarms keep working on the device itself. Conversation, recipe ideas, and dashboard updates need an internet connection and resume automatically when it returns.
Yes. NanaBot’s appearance is designed to be customized and built by its users, and we offer tools to help you personalize it.
No. NanaBot sounds an alarm in the home and records falls for caregivers to review, but it does not contact emergency services. It is an assistive product, not a medical device or a replacement for emergency response or professional care.
No. Plug it in, connect it to Wi-Fi, and register it in the caregiver dashboard. Most families are done in a few minutes.
No. NanaBot plugs into a standard wall outlet and is designed to stay in one room, such as the living room or bedroom.
Specifications
We welcome conversations with healthcare organizations, cybersecurity experts, universities, community groups, funders, and mission aligned investors.
NanaBot is an assistive wellness product and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or monitor any medical condition. Features marked “coming soon” are in development. Specifications and pricing may change before release.
