Robot Gift Guide 2018

Over a dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts

Welcome to the seventh edition of IEEE Spectrum’s Robot Gift Guide! Our apologies for being a bit late with our list this year (too many projects and trips!), but we hope it’ll help you find the best giftable robots for your family, friends, and other special people in your life, including yourself, of course. As in previous years, we tried to include a wide variety of robot types and prices, focusing mostly on products released this year.

If you need even more robot gift ideas, take a look at our past guides: 2017, 2016201520142013, and 2012. Some of those robots are still great choices and are probably way cheaper now than when we first posted about them. And a reminder: While we provide prices and links to places where you can buy these items, we’re not endorsing any in particular, and a little bit of searching may result in better deals (all prices are in U.S. dollars, and yikes, robots are pricey, we know).

If you have suggestions that you’d like to share, post a comment to help the rest of us find the perfect robot gift.