Questions, answered as things stand.

A portable, screen-free player for kids. A grown-up chooses what is on it from the app; the kid runs it with a knob and two buttons: volume, play, pause, next, back.

It plays what you already have. No cards. Robi's library is the podcasts, audiobooks, music and recordings your family already has, plus the stories you make together. Nothing is sold one card at a time, and nothing you add depends on a card being in a drawer.

It is designed and tested first for children around two to six. We are still learning how the interaction should grow for older kids, and we will say so rather than guess.

No, no and no. Setup, content and detailed status live in the grown-up's app. The device itself stays tactile: a knob, two buttons, one light.

Today a grown-up sets what is current, and the kid controls play, pause, next and back. Independent switching between shows is being tested with real kids, and we will not promise it until they can use it reliably.

Podcasts and any RSS audio feed, audiobooks, the music files you already own, recordings of your own voice, stories you make together in the app, and mixes of all of the above. Spotify Connect is in certification; until that is done we do not list it as a feature. Borrowing library books through Libby is in development, on the same terms.

To put things on it, yes: Robi downloads over your home WiFi. To play them, no. Nothing on Robi has to check in with a server before it plays, so the car, the plane, the campsite and the grandparents' house all work. Anything that streams live is the exception, and it is labelled that way in the app.

Only within your choices. You can add a show once, or tell Robi to keep a particular show updated; only those shows fetch new episodes. Nothing new appears without a grown-up allowing it.

You name the hero, pick a theme, set an age and a length. The app writes the story, you read every word before it is narrated onto Robi, and you can delete it any time. Your child's name is swapped for a placeholder before the story request leaves the app.

No. It takes the parts of the day that used to go to a screen: car rides, stroller walks, trips, waiting rooms. Reading together keeps its own place.

$149, preliminary. The final price is set before preorders open, once manufacturing quotes replace the remaining estimates. The Kickstarter is planned for early 2027.

No. There is nothing to buy per story. Robi plays the audio your family already has and the things you add yourself.

Listening never needs one. If we ever offer extras with a real running cost, such as cloud backup or family recordings from far away, they will be optional and Robi will work in full without them.

Robi is fair source. Every design file and every line of code will be published before launch, free to build yourself, and all of it becomes open source automatically within two years, on a clock written into the licenses. If kid.studio ever winds down, everything opens within 90 days. The terms, layer by layer.

Yes. Robi plays from its own storage, has its own web interface on your home network, and the pairing protocol is documented, so the community could rebuild the app. The sunset clause opens everything else within 90 days.

Only what you type into the app: optionally a first name and an age range for stories, and what is playing so the app can show it. Kids do not sign in and have no account. Nothing about children is used for advertising, sold, or used to train models. The full policy is written for parents.

In the United States. Families anywhere are welcome on the waitlist, and the policy explains what applies if you are in the UK or the EU.