ASUS: Stop Letting the Cutest Robot Ever Made Rot in a Lab. Bring Back Zenbo!
The Issue
ASUS built the ultimate, Pixar-faced home robot in 2016—and then let him rot in a warehouse.
Today, tech companies expect us to live with boring, stationary plastic bricks like the Amazon Echo or Google Nest Hub. They stopped trying to make robots lovable right before AI finally got the technology to make them smart.
The modern smart speaker market is actively collapsing because consumers are tired of soulless tech. It's time for ASUS to look backward to move forward: retrofit the original Zenbo chassis with a modern AI brain, and finally bring him home.
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The Issue
ASUS built the ultimate, Pixar-faced home robot in 2016—and then let him rot in a warehouse.
Today, tech companies expect us to live with boring, stationary plastic bricks like the Amazon Echo or Google Nest Hub. They stopped trying to make robots lovable right before AI finally got the technology to make them smart.
The modern smart speaker market is actively collapsing because consumers are tired of soulless tech. It's time for ASUS to look backward to move forward: retrofit the original Zenbo chassis with a modern AI brain, and finally bring him home.
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Petition created on October 30, 2026