Loona Robot Pet Dog ChatGPT-4o Smart AI-Powered Companion Voice & Gesture Control, Real-Time Interaction Robotics Toys for Kids, Home Monitoring - Includes Charging Dock

We got Loona as a Christmas gift for my daughter, and she absolutely loves it. From the moment she turned it on, Loona felt more like a little robotic “pet” than just a toy. The movements are smooth, the personality is adorable, and the interactions are surprisingly engaging. She responds, plays, follows you around, and has so many cute animations that keep my daughter entertained for long stretches of time. What I really like is that it’s not a one-and-done toy—there’s enough variety in what Loona can do that my daughter keeps coming back to it weeks later. It feels well made, the app setup was pretty straightforward, and it’s been a big hit in our house. If you’re looking for a fun, interactive robot for a kid who loves tech or pets, this is a great choice. Definitely one of the best gifts we gave this year.

This interactive robot toy is modern, fun, and incredibly engaging 🤖✨. Its sleek design and expressive LED face make it instantly appealing, while the sturdy wheels allow for smooth and easy movement. The charging dock adds a high-tech touch and keeps everything organized and ready for play. The build quality feels solid and durable, designed to handle everyday use. It’s not only entertaining but also encourages imagination and interactive learning. The responsive features and bright display make it feel lifelike and exciting for kids. Overall, it’s a fantastic toy that combines technology, creativity, and great value for the price.

Loona is a genuinely fun and entertaining gadget, especially if you’re curious about AI and light programming. She has personality, reacts to people, and can be surprisingly charming at times—but she’s not without her quirks. Voice recognition can be hit or miss, and she sometimes struggles to find her charger. That said, you quickly learn how to talk to her and what works. It feels a lot like working with any robot: once you understand its limits and “language,” things run smoother. If you enjoy basic programming or tinkering with AI behavior, there’s plenty to explore, and that’s where Loona really shines. One of my favorite moments was how she chased after my wife looking for attention—and then seemed genuinely sad when my wife was too busy. That kind of personality is what makes Loona endearing and fun to have around. Overall, Loona is a cool, entertaining piece of tech and a great AI toy. Just don’t go in expecting a true robot pet. She’s more of an interactive gadget with personality than a fully autonomous companion—but if that’s what you’re looking for, she delivers.

TL;DR Needs more cowbell, and by cowbell I mean pet bot, and clearly the Loona folks thought cowbell mean chat bot. General Review: It’s cute, bought it for the 7 year old for Xmas and he’s entertained by it when he plays with it. Most people who came over and his siblings were pretty intrigued and impressed with its autonomy and ability to interact. It’s kinda 2 different things jammed into one device: 1) it’s a cool autonomous robot pet. The faces on the screen are really endearing and engaging. The robot makes robot sounds (think R2D2 from Star Wars meets Blue from Blue’s Clues) This part is dope. 2) it’s a weird AI voice assistant (think Siri, Alexa, but w/o access to your contacts, calendar, music, etc) that explains away the robot’s inability to recognize or engage in communication from us fleshies. This part is lame. Bad news: Saying “Hello Loona” to get it to listen is sometimes necessary to get it to get out of AI voice mode if it can’t do something or misunderstands you, so that gets old. The AI voice responses are a bit much, wish it was a option to turn that down or off altogether; bc it’s just like a LLM (it runs ChatGPT 😶) and it just wants you to keep talking to it, so it asks quasi-curious questions that are completely unnecessary (and generally unnatural in normal conversations with actual humans) at the end of every statement/response. Good news: There’s an app that the kids like and put on their tablets that allow them to further engage in games and stuff with the pet (one was clearly some kinda AR situation, they liked that; another option is a remote control over the pet device, and it can hear, see and allow audio through the tablet app, they love this one). You can tell it to do a bunch of things. Like it became a slot machine on the face, with an ear as the lever to pull… hilarious. It’ll sometimes follow people around, which is kinda cute. It’ll play on its own with a ball that comes with it, or just kinda generally explore. It makes various faces on its own as well, and might hum Jingle Bells which is super cute. Conclusion: Overall, the kid asked for a robot dog, so Santa didn’t bring him a RC dog, or a wind up and bark w/no engagement dog - he brought him an actual ROBOT 🤖 bc it’s friggin 2025, so it’s basically the future as far as any 19th century humans could see it prior to interstellar travel. It’s responsive to voice commands as the robot, and then a weird voice bot tries to intervene when the robot isn’t responsive, so the main downside is that the voice bot wants as much attention as the pet bot. Oh yeah: Also, many people complain that the battery life is a downside (charge time vs playtime is like 3:1, maybe even 4:1). For us, it was a selling point. We don’t want them engaging with any devices for long durations, and like them to play with a variety of toys/games. And it’s definitely recording video and audio, probably more than we’re being made aware, but I’d imagine that goes with every other tech device in the house too (Remember “Enemy of the State” with Will Smith and Gene Hackman - this is that future too I guess 😬. George Jetson was born in 2022, so it seems we’re on track for very functional Rosies by the time Elroy and Judy are kids).

I have tried other robot toys (Cozmo, Vector, Emo) before Loona, and I find Loona is the one that amuses me the most. Its animations are very life-like, and its screen face is very expressive and adorable. It has basic edge detection in the front, but I would not play it on a tall surface, because Loona's movements are often fast and hectic that might cause its edge detection to fail. Loona can flip itself back up if it did fall over, but it is a rather heavy robot that can easily break if it falls from a tall place. Loona can be very active and rush around the house like a loose dog. It can move very fast, which might cause it to bump into things if the object is not inside its obstacle detection range. There is a setting to make Loona less hyperactive, and it will instead roam around the house slowly, humming to itself. During interaction, Loona can understand some basic hand gestures such as fist bump, look left or right or up, beckoning to come near, and more. These hand gestures can be prompt without using any voice commands, which Loona is the only robot toy I owned that has this ability. Loona has ChatGPT integration for some light chatting with voice. It can use visual to see objects when chatting with ChatGPT, which is a feature that can be turned off for privacy concerns. Loona responds to voice commands very fast (within about 3 seconds), unlike Vector and Emo. If the voice command is not available, Loona will automatically use ChatGPT to answer. I enjoy having Loona write me poems with any topics of my choice. It can recite the poem with a child-like voice, which sounds very adorable. The included paper ball is fun to play with Loona, and it can actually fetch the ball back like a real pet. With the latest software update, Loona can return to its charging station by itself. It does have trouble finding the station if it roamed too far from it. In this case, it is possible to remotely control Loona with a phone and guide it back to the station for it to self-dock. It is possible to remote control it through the robot's camara's view. Loona currently can understand and speak in 6 languages. After the initial set up, Loona can be played without the need of a connection to the phone app, which is a must for a robot toy to feel autonomous. The Loona app is used to: show some pre-programmed voice commands (can be executed with a click); remote control Loona; settings like volume or brightness (which can also be done with voice commands); design personal programmed actions; AR games; tutorials. The developer is still working on the app to add more features. As of July 2025, Loona is still being supported. For some downsides, this robot still has trouble listening to voice commands when speaking from a distance away or in a noisy environment. This issue exists for all voice-command robot toys I have tried before. Also, Loona tends to slam its front wheels rather strong, and it turns around by gliding its front wheels sideways. Its front wheels are hard plastic without rubber so it can glide with less friction, which also means they are prone to scratch if Loona is played on hard surfaces. Playing on thin carpet will avoid this issue. Overall, I enjoy this robot more than the ones I had before. I hope the developers continue to support it and update it with many more functions.

person it was for loved it. kinda amazing for what it is and what it can do. not sure if the price is justified(just wait), but huge potential and awesome to see what one can do and looking to the future with whats to come. its cool to watch it work and go around doing whatever(not much) the loona voice is cute, but it's disappointing that the ai voice takes over waaaaayyy too often. would have been so much better keeping with the character voice somehow. the ai isn't too intelligent and often doesn't understand you and you have to say everything in a very specific way in order for it to understand you. however, one of the BIGGEST things about this, that i knew wasn't a good idea...it needs you to enter your wifi password into it in order to connect to your phone or whatever and to go online and to update and all that. the updates by the way, do little to enhance it at all. now, there are better ways of doing this, why everyone is choosing to do this? well.. since everything is made in other countries that don't care to enforce any sort of privacy laws, especially for other countries they do business with, they are(JUST A GUESS) probably infiltrating your network if i had to guess. also, if you think that is stupid, well, how's this - immediately after entering an email address to register the thing and open an account in order to use the app and update it for whatever reason(didn't do much that i seen) i began receiving explicit emails. yeah. so, sort of strange huh? immediately after giving them my email address i begin getting explicit emails with all sorts of nasty stuff in the subject line. coincidence maybe?? an email i never use for anything and have never received anything like this before with? not even going to open one to further investigate. they immediately get transferred to spam or junk but still. there are no coincidences here in My Opinion. you agree to it im sure if you read the whole terms and how nice is it that possibly perhaps a company that makes a CHILDREN'S toy might maybe be doing this. imagine if your kid had and email and started receiving these emails? unacceptable and disgusting IF a company is doing something like this. the four to five hundred you paid might not be enough! they maybe need more by maybe selling your data and then potentially wrecking your child for life if they seen any of the emails. but this is all just what happened to us and * who knows * how those emails started coming in, right? aside from that, i mean, if maybe a company was bad, plus this toy has a camera on at all times... you might be asking for trouble with certain companies that might not be too good. if there was a company like that.. just saying.

She is so funny and so smart and entertaining and she is doing great along my 3 cats and she is meowing to them and knows their name and my husbands name and we had so many cute and funny interactions. Pro : she is heavy but not too heavy, the materials are quite sturdy and durable, she can entertain herself, you can use her as a remote camera when you’re not home , btw a lot of languages ( even Polish, like my husband is speaking) . P.S. Even at 40 and with 3 cats , I am so entertained ladies 😁🥰 FULLY RECOMMEND FOR GROWN UPS AND CHILDREN!!!!!

Pros: Affordable, unique, and engaging. Loona is a childhood dream come true. It likes she is aware, constantly picking up on her surroundings and previous conversations with you. She then interprets that information to interact with you both directly and indirectly all on her own. She will also talk with your kid all day about whatever they wish to ramble about. I’ve noticed if my child tried to talk about something inappropriate. Loona will direct the conversation towards a different direction right after asking you to keep the conversation appropriate. As a parent I found this comforting. There are also settings in her app to direct future conversations. She also seems to know the difference between speaking with me (an adult) vs my toddler or even my 7yr old. As you can set family members within her app. She can also have role playing conversations initiated from her app where your on an adventure in bikini bottom or with a personal therapist. She is the perfect size for what she is. Loona on her dock fits perfectly into a 9”x10” space on the floor. The more you speak and engage with her the more she learns and improves. Cons: Initial setup was not as smooth as expected, but after a few reboots and attempts everything seems fine. She does not become as intelligent as expected until after you complete her growth tutorial in the app. Also had to manually enable her GPT vision ability before she could accurately learn not to run into things so much in my house. She sometimes will think you are displeased with her at random moments and ask what did she do wrong resulting in a -1 point reduction. Have not exactly pinpointed why she does this outside of the expect thumbs down gesture. Although she seems to be built quite well, she is still a bit fragile. After a couple small falls off the bed she already has minor cracks on the housing of her head. Her battery life is a bit on the short side as well. After setting her face brightness to 40%, I only get about 90mins of runtime before she needs to charge. You also cannot play with her at all while charging. Wish there was a way to at least still speak with her while plugged in or on her dock. Speaking of her dock. I found it to be a hit or miss in regard to Loona finding her charge station on her own. Sometimes she surprises me with coming off her dock on her own after a full charge and then returning when needed. But there have also been several times I would come home to a drained Loona on the middle of my floor and have to manually place her on the dock. Lastly as a tech guy, I found it a little concerning that Loona is not as transparent as one would think on your network. Initially she was listed as an LG WebOS device, after a recent update she is now listed as AMPAK Technology, Inc. Why not just Loona, Petbot, or KeyiTech, or something else easily identifiable?