Jibo

Jibo, the social robot jibo

Unlike the top two, Jibo is here and now, and for sale at $899. The "social robot for the home" uses facial recognition to remember everyone in the family, can answer questions, help with needs, do a little dance, and has a round touch screen face as well. Aside from that, Jibo does the basic Alexa thing—setting alarms, reminding you about airline schedules and telling you the weather. On sale since October, Jibo is cute and fun, but at $800 more than a basic Google Home or Amazon Echo, that's a lot of money to spend on family entertainment.

Luka

Luka is a new line of children's robots that will be available in 2018 for $150. Shown at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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This robot is aimed at kids, to help them learn to read and to read aloud children's stories to them. Arguably the cutest one we saw at CES, it comes from Chinese company Ling Technology that says it will have the product available by mid-year, at an affordable price of $150. Some could argue that mom and dad should be in the room reading to their kids, but if this toy robot helps along the process of learning, we're all for it.