# AiMOGA Mobo Pre-Sale: Price, Features and What Is Still Missing

Chery's home companion robot is taking pre-orders, but the advertised $99 deposit leaves important questions about the finished product unanswered.

By Paras Madan | 2026-10-23


AiMOGA, Chery's robotics brand, opened global pre-orders for its Mobo home companion robot on October 21. The offer starts with a $99 deposit, not a $99 robot. Full purchase pricing and a delivery schedule were not established in the launch materials reviewed for this article.

That distinction matters more than the launch video. A home robot has to make sense as something a family can buy, maintain and live with, not only as a demonstration of embodied AI.

## Mobo price and pre-order availability

The [official AiMOGA website](https://www.aimoga-robot.com/global/en/) lists a pre-sale running from October 21 through December 31, 2026. Its $99 deposit is credited as $399 toward a purchase. The promotion includes a six-month warranty extension.

**The deposit is a reservation offer, not the final purchase price.** Without the remaining balance, it is not possible to calculate what owning Mobo will cost.

The website directs buyers to an inquiry form for contact with a sales representative. This is a sales-assisted pre-order process, rather than evidence that a robot is ready to ship from an online checkout.

The page says buyers bear related fees incurred during refunds. It does not settle every cancellation condition, delivery destination or service commitment. Those are details to establish before treating the deposit as a low-risk trial.

## What AiMOGA says Mobo can do

In its [launch announcement](https://kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemelding/19114017/aimoga-opens-global-pre-orders-for-mobo-expanding-into-the-consumer-home-robotics-market?lang=en&publisherId=4954260), AiMOGA describes Mobo as its first home companion robot. Its MoAgent system combines spatial awareness, conversation, motion control and long-term memory with an edge-cloud architecture. The company says it can break longer tasks into steps, recognize family members and remember preferences.

Mobo has 22 degrees of freedom, describing the independent movements its body can make. AiMOGA positions it around companionship for older adults, children and the wider household. These are intended use cases, not independently verified evidence that it can safely supervise a child or replace a caregiver.

The useful technical question is how those components cooperate. Remembering a preference is different from reliably acting on it in a changing room. A robot might understand a request correctly and still face an obstacle, an unfamiliar object or an interruption that changes what it should do next.

For a home companion, stopping and asking for help can be a better outcome than confidently finishing the wrong action.

## What the launch does not yet establish

The reviewed announcement does not provide an independently validated household task-success rate. It also does not establish how much useful work Mobo completes between charges, what remains functional without connectivity, or the ongoing cost of cloud features.

Edge-cloud architecture alone does not answer where every recording, memory or inference request goes. Before bringing a persistent assistant into a household, buyers would need clear answers about retention, deletion, account access and which operations happen locally. A manufacturer's privacy promise is not a substitute for those details.

There is also a difference between a successful demonstration and repeatable home use. A useful evaluation would involve unfamiliar rooms, multiple speakers, interruptions and ordinary clutter. Results from those conditions would tell readers more than another carefully staged routine.

## Why the pre-sale is worth watching

The new development is a commercial opening for a consumer robot, not confirmation that the product has reached households. It puts a more practical set of questions around the technology: final price, delivery, repair, software support and reliability outside the demonstration space.

The next meaningful milestone is a customer being able to explain what Mobo reliably does each day, what it cannot do, and what that usefulness costs. That is the evidence that will turn a reservation campaign into a product people can evaluate.

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