A robot that patrols your house tonight, buyable in Australia
The robot that walks around your house at night, checks the doors and tells you what it found is a product nobody sells in Australia. Four large companies have shown one. The buyable list is shorter and stranger than the headlines.
What the big names did
Samsung showed Ballie, a rolling home robot with a projector, at CES in 2020 and most years after. In January 2026 Bloomberg reported it had been shelved indefinitely, and it was absent from CES that same month.
Amazon’s Astro is real and does the job: it patrols, streams, recognises faces and docks itself. It sells for US$1,599, in the United States only, by invitation, which is where it has been since 2021.
LG showed the Q9 at CES 2026 with no consumer date attached. Ring announced the Always Home Cam, an indoor drone that flies a route inside the house, at US$249 in 2020. It never shipped.
Four announcements, one shipping product, none of them here.
What you can actually buy here
Two things, and only one of them was designed for the job.
The Enabot EBO X is a purpose built patrol robot: a 4K camera on a self balancing body that cruises the house by time of day, alerts on motion and sound, talks both ways and takes itself back to a dock. It is $1,399 at Enabot Australia, down from $1,699, read 3 September 2026. Its little brother, the EBO Air 2S, does ten saved patrol routes on a schedule for $499.
What the Enabots give up is everything else in the house. They run in their own app, with no way to join one to a house system, so nothing else can send it anywhere. A request for that has been open with the maker since 2022.
The vacuum trick
The other option is the one most people already own.
A current flagship robot vacuum has a camera on the front, knows the floor plan, drives to any room you point at, docks itself and, on several models, cruises the house on a schedule while you are out. Roborock calls it Video Call and Cruise. That is a patrol robot with a dustbin attached, priced by the vacuum market.
The Roborock Saros Z70 is $999 at the Australian store, down from a $3,999 recommended price, read 3 September 2026. The Saros 10R is $1,499 down from $2,899. The Dreame X50 Ultra is $2,999 with live video and two way audio, shipped from Sydney. The Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni is $999 at JB Hi-Fi, though its specification lists neither cruise nor two way audio.
The vacuums also have the thing the Enabots lack: a way in. Several of them can be joined to a house system, which is what lets a door sensor at two in the morning send the machine to the back door instead of waiting for somebody to open an app. What none of the makers documents is a live camera stream through that route, so the picture still arrives through the maker’s own app while the driving is done by the house.
Two honest limits on all of it. The camera sits about ten centimetres off the floor, so it sees legs and doorways rather than faces. And a machine that cleans is sometimes full, sometimes washing its mop and sometimes halfway through a floor, which makes it a useful second pair of eyes and a poor primary alarm.
What House of Robots does with this
We supply one of these machines, set it up and wire it into the house, so it patrols on a schedule and gets sent somewhere when a sensor asks. It answers in the same app as the lights, with your rooms and your names for them, and Daniel supports it afterwards. If the vacuum in your hallway is one of the models above, that is the machine and the job is smaller. The machine is included in the price of the work.
Above it sit the dogs. A Unitree Go2 Air or Pro arrives set up, paired to your phone and walked through with you. It is a very good camera on legs that you drive yourself. It does not patrol on its own and it does not talk to the house.
The Go2 EDU is the one that can be programmed: a patrol route, a gate to meet you at, doors to check, and a place in the same app as the lights. It runs one to two hours on a battery, it is charged by hand, and there is no dock for it to walk back to yet. That is the honest gap between a robot dog and a robot that watches your house.
House of Robots owns none of these machines and has tested none. Every price above is published, read on 3 September 2026, with the seller linked. The full comparison table is here.
Sources: Enabot Australia, Roborock Store Australia, Dreame Australia and JB Hi-Fi for Australian prices and specifications, read 3 September 2026. Bloomberg, January 2026, on Ballie being shelved. Amazon’s own listing for the Astro price and its United States only availability. LG’s CES 2026 showing for the Q9. Ring’s 2020 announcement for the Always Home Cam. Unitree and its Australian resellers for the robot dog prices, read 2 and 3 September 2026.