Eilik: a small desk companion that plays without an app
Eilik is a 230 g desktop robot that started on Kickstarter in 2021. It is still sold in the official store, and a successor, Eiliko, followed.
Timeline
- 2021.11Kickstarter opensEarly bird HK$770
- 2021.12Campaign ends4,738 backers, HK$6.06M
- 2025.08Eiliko unveiledSequel on Kickstarter
- 2025.09Eiliko in production
- 2026.10On sale$139.99 on official store
Four servos and a small screen in 230 grams
Eilik is a desktop companion robot made by Energize Lab. It measures 108×105×133 mm and weighs 230 g. It has four servo motors and a 1.54-inch OLED display, and its battery lasts 1.5 hours on a charge. Its designer, Shaw Yeung, saw emotional support as something missing from robots and planned Eilik around it. Eilik responds to touch, reacts when shaken and is afraid of heights. It needs no app, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, and several Eiliks placed together interact with one another.
Fifty days on Kickstarter, 4,738 backers
Eilik’s Kickstarter campaign ran from 9 November to 29 December 2021. Against a goal of HK$390,000, 4,738 backers pledged HK$6,064,614. The early-bird price was HK$770 (about $99), and shipping was planned for April 2022. In October 2026 the official store lists Eilik at $139.99. The company put its successor, Eiliko, on Kickstarter in August 2025 and said it entered mass production in September.
User counts from 60,000 to 650,000
The company’s user numbers differ by page. The product page says over 60,000 customers have Eilik on their desks. A 2025 press release gives more than 300,000 users worldwide, and the current home page gives more than 650,000. The same release reports more than 300 million views across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Of the Eiliko campaign, Shaw Yeung said, “The response has been phenomenal.” This research found no independent review or user study.
A robot that sells without a job to do
Eilik does no housework and holds no conversations. Short reactions to touch and shaking were enough to earn it a place on the desk. Because it works without an app or internet connection, it is in a different position from Jibo or Vector, which lost their functions when their makers’ servers went off. The company is widening the line with successors in the same vein.
What can this robot keep doing with no connection at all?
What we haven’t confirmed
- Where and when the company was founded (Hong Kong and Shenzhen differ across sources)
- Actual units sold (the company gives only customer and user counts)
- The date backer shipments actually began
- A Wikimedia Commons photo or an official channel video (not found in this research)
Sources
- Energize Lab home page (company material)
- Energize Lab, Eilik product page (company material)
- Energize Lab store, Eilik product listing (company material)
- Kicktraq, Eilik Kickstarter campaign tracker (secondary source)
- Hackster.io, “Energize Lab’s Eilik Aims to Be Your Emotional, Playful, EVE-Inspired Desktop Companion Bot”
- Yanko Design, “Meet Eilik, a feisty little AI robot that lives on your desk like a tiny Tamagotchi with a personality,” 23 December 2021
- STIR, “Eilik is a vibrant emotionally intelligent companion robot for your desktop,” 21 May 2022
- designwanted, “Eilik is an interactive desktop companion robot with personality,” 11 March 2022
- SmartWorld, “Eilik, il robot interattivo che tiene compagnia,” 20 January 2022
- TechNode Global(PR Newswire Asia), Eiliko Kickstarter press release, 16 August 2025 (company material)
- Notebookcheck, “Energize Lab confirma que Eiliko ha entrado en producción en serie,” 10 September 2025