The Enabot EBO Max in Australia: a rolling camera that talks back and remembers the family
The EBO Max is Enabot’s newest home robot: a round, 750 gram camera on tracks, about the size of a grapefruit, with a pair of animated eyes on the front and an AI you talk to out loud. It went on sale at Enabot’s Australian store in April for $999 and is $899 there today, read 27 October 2026. The store is run by an authorised local distributor and lists a two year warranty.
What it does
Underneath the personality it is a 4K camera that drives itself. On the first run it maps the house and you name the rooms, then it finds its own way around furniture, shoes and pets and takes itself back to the dock when the battery runs low. Enabot rates the battery at four to six hours sitting still or recording, and up to three hours of driving.
The new part is the AI. You wake it by saying its name twice, from three to five metres away, and from there it holds a conversation. It can look at what you hold up and give an opinion on it, and it takes instructions in a chain: go to the kitchen, take a photo of the dishwasher, come back to the dock. It will also set reminders by voice and turn up at a set time to deliver them.
It learns the household as it goes. It recognises family members by face, and one person’s voice, and the maker says it picks up routines over time, such as where people tend to sit in the evening, and checks those spots first. That memory can be cleared from the app.
Watching the house
Away from home, the app shows the live camera in 4K, lets you drive it from room to room and runs two way video or voice calls through it. Recording can run on a schedule, either from the dock or out on a patrol, and it can record when it sees a person, a pet, a face or unusual movement, with a notification to your phone each time. Patrols come in three kinds: a set route, a list of marked spots, or the whole house.
Two of its features are aimed at an older parent living alone. It can recognise a fall and start a video call to your phone, and anyone in the house can call for help by saying so out loud.
Video is stored on a memory card inside the robot (32GB comes in the box, and it takes up to 256GB) and streamed straight to your phone when you watch live. Enabot says it is encrypted on the way.
Where it runs out of road
It is a small machine and the limits come with the size. It climbs a lip of 12 millimetres at most, so a raised door threshold or a thick rug edge can stop it, and a ramp steeper than 15 degrees is out. It works on a single floor, so a two storey house gets one level.
The voice side does best in a quiet room with one person talking. With several people speaking at once it can lose track of who gave the command. Its eye for objects favours big things over small ones, so anything you want it to look at closely has to be held near the lens.
The dock needs space. Enabot asks for about two metres clear in front of it and 60 centimetres either side, with its back against a wall so the robot has something to push into when it parks.
The EBO Max next to the EBO X
Enabot’s bigger EBO X is $1,399 at the same store, down from $1,699. It is a taller, self balancing robot. In the maker’s own comparison table, the cheaper EBO Max has the newer AI with memory, fall detection and all three patrol types, while the EBO X runs a simpler AI that answers each command on its own and patrols a set route.
For the home itself, both run inside Enabot’s app with no way to join a house system, so a door sensor cannot send either robot anywhere. Enabot has announced that the EBO Max will soon be reachable from outside AI assistants, with the rollout expected in early November. What that will let a house do is not known yet.
What House of Robots does with this
The EBO Max sits at the small end of a robot that watches your house, next to the EBO X and the camera vacuums. Where a house wants its robot to answer to the rest of the house, House of Robots supplies a machine that can be joined to it, sets it up and wires it in, so it patrols on a schedule, gets sent somewhere when a sensor asks and answers in the same app as the lights. The machine is included in the price of the work.
House of Robots owns none of these machines and has tested none. Every price above is published and was read on 27 October 2026, with the seller linked.
Sources: Enabot Australia for the Australian prices, warranty and availability, read 27 October 2026. Enabot’s own EBO Max product page for the specifications, the patrol and fall detection features, the comparison with the EBO X and the AI assistant rollout.