SwitchBot Multitasking Household Robot K20 Plus Pro launches

SwitchBot, greatest identified for its good robotic vacuums, is again within the highlight at CES 2025 with a tool that goals to push family automation to new heights. Known as the SwitchBot Multitasking Family Robotic K20 Plus Professional, this contemporary launch definitely emphasizes the “multi” in “multitasking.” Whereas it nonetheless vacuums and navigates your private home within the regular method, the K20 Plus Professional guarantees a number of additional options that reach past mere ground cleansing.

In the beginning, the K20 Plus Professional is a robotic vacuum. It makes use of D-ToF Lidar Navigation and twin laser detection to map out your private home, creating an in depth format that helps it dodge furnishings, pet toys, and different on a regular basis obstacles. In concept, this could ship constant, dependable cleansing with out frequent run-ins with objects, successfully minimizing the necessity for human intervention.

What makes this mannequin completely different out of your run-of-the-mill robovac is the brand new “FusionPlatform.” Consider FusionPlatform as a cellular base that bodily connects to the robotic vacuum (through one thing SwitchBot calls ClawLock) and transforms the robovac into a flexible helper on wheels. Able to carrying payloads of as much as 8kg (~17.6lbs), it might ship meals or drinks, transport small packages, or help seniors by shifting gadgets with out requiring anybody to bend or carry.

In keeping with SwitchBot, you may information the K20 Plus Professional like a small RC automotive, so in the event you ever really feel like shuttling a snack or small bundle to a different room on prime of your robovac, that choice is on the market. That’s one thought I’ve at all times had about robotic vacuums since they first got here into existence. Apparently, somebody at SwitchBot puzzled the identical factor and determined, “Why not?”

The corporate envisions much more superior makes use of by way of separate “kits” that work with the FusionPlatform. One such instance is the Pan/Tilt Cam Plus package, which turns the K20 Plus Professional right into a cellular safety patrol gadget, in a position to roam from room to room, monitor exercise, and ship real-time alerts.

One other package pairs the robotic with a SwitchBot Air Air purifier, permitting it to maneuver round and clear the air in a number of rooms. SwitchBot may even provide separate kits for an air fan, a pill stand, and even an all-in-one omni bundle, which can embrace all of those attachments.

For anybody who likes to tinker, FusionPlatform is constructed to help customized elements, 3D-printed attachments, and third-party add-ons past the kits SwitchBot will provide. There are additionally a number of energy ports for hooking up additional devices like UV sterilization lamps or compact fridges. In different phrases, in case you have a artistic thought for a house robotic, SwitchBot needs you to run with it.

The K20 Plus Professional suits proper into SwitchBot’s current ecosystem and likewise performs properly with Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri, so it might match into broader dwelling automation routines — like purifying a room’s air as quickly because it enters it.

Official pricing and launch dates stay underneath wraps, although the robotic is slated to go on sale on SwitchBot’s web site later this 12 months. On condition that the present K10 Plus Professional ($599.99 at Amazon) retails for round $600, you may in all probability anticipate the K20 Plus Professional to land someplace in that vary.