IFA’s Home Robots Share a Chip: Sunrise Inside SuperDog, AiMe, and xLean
Berlin’s IFA floor had a quieter story under the humanoid runway: three home robots that do not share a body, but do share a computer. D-Robotics, in a 4 September PR, says TCL’s hey AiMe, Vbot’s SuperDog, and the xLean TR1 floor washer all run its Sunrise AI chips.
The company frames Sunrise as infrastructure, not a mascot. The portfolio spans 5 to 560 TOPS (INT8, with a sparsity footnote), plus RDK developer kits, covering humanoids, quadrupeds, home robots, and logistics AMRs. It claims more than 100,000 developers in 20+ countries, 500+ universities, and 500+ startups, and lists collaborators from Bosch Sensortec and TCL to UBTech, Fourier, LimX, Booster, and Astribot.
Three machines, three jobs
TCL hey AiMe is billed as a family companion-education robot. The PR gives it guided-play learning, autonomous navigation, 10 degrees of freedom for expression, and more than 20 sensors, Hall 21, Booth 101. Gadget Flow’s IFA roundup, which watched the floor from Berlin, is more interested in the expressiveness than the “world’s first” line. Associated Press video from TCL’s IFA keynote shows the furry unit on stage while CTO Daniel Sun talks. He says AiMe is there “not only to wave and say hello,” and that TCL means AI that “works quietly to make life a little bit easier.”
Vbot SuperDog is the one you can actually order in Europe, according to the same PR: mass production since May 2026, thousands of households, CE-certified, European pre-orders open, Hall 25, Booth 167. Gadget Flow’s writer would buy the quadruped before any humanoid at the show, on the grounds that four legs are a solved problem.
xLean TR1 is the unglamorous one. A dual-form floor washer that, per D-Robotics, just finished a $2 million (about €1.7 million) Kickstarter with more than 2,000 backers. It ran EvoMate live at ShowStoppers and Booth 11.1-129. Technology.org’s IFA note says Robot Form does whole-home cleaning and a one-second mechanical change turns it into a handheld for spills. EvoMate OS is described as taking a one-sentence request, picking a strategy, running it, and reporting back. Compute on the TR1 is a Sunrise X5 at 10 TOPS, with 360-degree LiDAR, RGB-D, infrared, green-laser dirt detection, and 44,640 3D sensing points.
None of those three pages lists a street price for AiMe. SuperDog’s European pre-order is open, without a euro figure in the PR. The TR1’s Kickstarter total is the only dollar amount tied to a unit.
A Human’s Take
I’m here for the washer and the CE-certified dog more than the companion with twenty sensors and no price. A chip vendor showing up in three different bodies is a supply-chain story wearing a robot suit. If Sunrise is actually in thousands of SuperDogs, that is more interesting than another humanoid that danced in Hall 25.