Yogi

Cartwheel Robotics' Yogi was a compact social humanoid robot designed for home companionship, featuring toddler-proportioned dimensions with a large head and rounded, approachable features intended for residential environments. The company was founded in Nevada by Scott LaValley, formerly of Boston Dynamics and Disney Imagineering, and developed Yogi with a team of seven on approximately $3 million in outside capital. Cartwheel Robotics filed for bankruptcy in March 2026 after failing to secure additional hardware-scaling capital.

Yogi is at the research stage: it exists, but DEPLOY has no verified real-world deployment on record. Manufacturer capability claims should be read as claims pending independent verification.

Yogi is made by Cartwheel Robotics, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 2022.

Yogi is at research stage and is not yet available for sale.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable companion_robot robots to Yogi include ElliQ, BUDDY, Enabot Ebo X, Loona Petbot.

Yogi and ElliQ (Intuition Robotics · 4 deployments) are both companion_robot robots on the DEPLOY registry. Yogi has 0 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Yogi ranks in roughly the top 88% of companion_robot models tracked by the registry.

Yogi is at the research stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Research stage means active development without commercial deployments on file.

No verified deployments of Yogi are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

Yogi has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Yogi by Cartwheel Robotics is a small, friendly humanoid robot designed to bring joy, warmth, and a bit of everyday magic into homes and human environments. Designed to fit naturally into human spaces, it aims to be a humanoid that people love rather than fear.