Sage — companion robot

Status: in development. No unit has been built and nothing is deployed.

Sage is a companion robot for older adults living at home. A manufacturing partner builds the body; LifeTech replaces the intelligence that runs on it and removes the vendor cloud entirely, so conversation, video and health signals are processed on hardware inside the home.

Design decisions

It thinks inside the home, so there is nothing to leak or sell. It moves to the room you are in. There is nothing to wear or remember. And it has to be affordable to a household on a fixed income.

Presence, not surveillance

Family receive a short summary of how the day went and urgent alerts, not a live feed into someone’s home.