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Ropet Ropet
Moflin's pitch, cheaper, and actually on Amazon — though it is no longer the $299 robot the CES headlines promised.
We haven't tested this machine hands-on, so this profile carries no rating — every fact below traces to the sources at the end, and the judgments are clearly ours. Full methodology on the Robot Tracker.
At a glance
- Status
- ShippingReal units delivered to paying customers
- Can you buy it?
- Yes
- Price
- $339 on Ropet's own store (down from a $489 list). It debuted at CES 2025 at $299 — the price has risen since. Also sold on Amazon US.
- Form factor
- Plush-covered desk pet with a screen face
- AI brain
- Camera + audio; recognises faces and reacts to handling. No LLM chat.
- Maker
- Ropet (China / Hong Kong)
- Backing
- Crowdfunded; no institutional funding disclosed.
Ropet is a small plush-covered companion with a screen face, a camera and microphones. It recognises faces, reacts to being fed and handled, and expresses moods. It debuted at CES 2025 at $299 and shipped to its Kickstarter backers from May 2025 — but it now sells for $339, so the widely-quoted $299 is out of date.
It matters here mainly as the direct, cheaper answer to Casio's Moflin — same emotional pitch, $130 less, and unlike Moflin it has a real Amazon listing.
Ropet in pictures
Images are the manufacturers' own press and product photography, shown here for identification and review, and credited to the rights holder.
What's real
- • $339 — still the cheapest credible entry into the furry-companion category, and $90 under Moflin.
- • Available on Amazon US, unlike Moflin (Casio-direct) or Tombot (waitlist).
- • Has a face and a camera, so it can actually recognise and respond to you — more interactive than a Moflin.
- • Shipped to its 1,134 Kickstarter backers from May 2025, so it demonstrably exists.
Know before you watch (or buy)
- • A crowdfunded product from a young company — nothing like Casio's balance sheet behind it. Long-term support is an open question.
- • Battery is 2.5–3.5 hours per charge (the maker's own figure).
- • The emotional-intelligence claims are the maker's marketing; we found no independent long-term review.
- • We could not confirm any CES award, despite the CES press presence.
The evidence
Kickstarter-funded (1,134 backers, ~HK$2.4M); shipping to backers since May 2025; on sale via Amazon US.
What changed on Ropet's own pages
Nothing yet. We re-crawl the maker's own price and product pages and record anything that moves — a price, a ship date, a caveat appearing or disappearing. We've been watching since 2026-07-12and this maker hasn't changed those pages since.
We report what changed and when, with the page it changed on. We don't speculate about why.
Bottom line
The value pick of the category, and the sharpest question mark hanging over Moflin: if a $339 Ropet does the same emotional job as a $429 Moflin and is easier to buy, what exactly is Casio's premium for? We haven't tested either, so we're not answering that with a rating yet — but it's the comparison worth making.
FAQ
Ropet vs Moflin — which should you buy?
Ropet is $339 (up from its $299 CES price) and on Amazon; Moflin is $429 and only from Casio. Ropet has a face and a camera and can recognise you; Moflin has neither and is purely tactile. Moflin has the far stronger track record (roughly 10,000 sold in Japan) and a solvent manufacturer behind it. We haven't tested either, so we won't crown one — but if price and buyability decide it for you, Ropet wins on both.