Source: Plim Robotics company announcement; reveal announcement
Context: Company and robot rebrand; forthcoming reveal; specifications and capabilities are manufacturer claims
Published: October 2026 (source announcement; exact day not provided)
By Dan Smigrod, Managing Editor, Humanoid Home News
Devanthro has introduced Plim Robotics as its new public-facing brand and renamed its Robody humanoid robot Plim. The company is promoting an October 16, 2026 reveal, with silhouettes standing in for the robot’s appearance on its new website.
The name change is confirmed. Whether the upcoming reveal will introduce a substantially different hardware generation remains an open question.
Two new names, an existing company
The company’s announcement connects Plim directly to the robot previously known as Robody. That establishes continuity with the existing program. It does not, by itself, establish a separate robot product.
There is also a distinction between the public brand and the legal business. The website’s imprint identifies Plim Robotics as a brand of Devanthro GmbH and continues to name Devanthro GmbH as the provider. A legal company-name change has not been established by that notice.
October 16 is the reveal date
The new website is already accessible. Its website announcement confirms that it is live, while the news page promotes October 16 as the occasion when the robot’s body and face will be shown.
That makes this an advance look at a rebrand and an upcoming reveal. It should not be confused with a confirmed shipping date, customer delivery announcement or independently verified commercial rollout.
What the company says about Plim
The Meet Plim page describes a wheeled humanoid combining AI-powered assistance with human remote operation. Its “step-in” mode is intended to let someone elsewhere participate through the robot using their own voice, face and movement.
Published specifications list a height of 1.65 meters, a weight of 80 kilograms, a three-wheel omnidirectional base and two-finger grippers. The arms have seven degrees of freedom and a listed 3-kilogram payload. Computing uses Nvidia Jetson Thor, with ROS2 middleware.
The page also lists two hours of battery runtime and self-docking. That specification matters alongside the site’s broader language about round-the-clock support: it is not a claim of 24 hours of operation on one charge. Nor do the website descriptions establish how reliably Plim performs household tasks without human assistance.
What to watch for next
Robody already had a home-care focus. An earlier Devanthro announcement described redesigned arms and torso, soft skin and operators helping people in private homes. Those earlier developments should not be presented as newly introduced features simply because the branding has changed.
The useful comparison after the reveal will be between the previous Robody and the robot shown as Plim: what changed physically, which capabilities are demonstrated, and which tasks still depend on a remote person. Clear availability information would answer a separate question: when households can actually obtain the service or robot.
HHN Takeaway: The rebrand is established; a new hardware generation is not. For Humanoid Home News, the October 16 reveal is an opportunity to examine what has changed beyond the name, while keeping demonstrated performance separate from manufacturer promises.
