An open, privacy-first robot operating system
Home robots are arriving — an always-on camera and microphone in every room, in your kitchen and your kids’ rooms. The default is to stream all of it to a vendor’s cloud. Cardea processes it on the device instead. Only what you allow ever leaves the house.
Why now
Tesla, Figure, 1X and Unitree are shipping robots into homes today — each one a live feed someone else can watch. Cardea is the layer that sits above every maker and keeps yours private.
See how it works →How it works
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Speech, vision and recognition run on the device itself. The raw camera and microphone streams never leave a sealed space on the robot.
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A single guarded way out of your home, locked by default. Only the small, approved details you agreed to share may cross it — never the footage itself.
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Run models on the robot, or hand a task to the cloud as a short description — never your camera feed. And you can see every time it’s used.
Use any AI you like. It only ever sees the part you chose to share.
What may cross the threshold?
Verifiable, not trusted
Cardea’s core is open source. The entire boundary that decides what may leave your home is a handful of files anyone can audit in an afternoon. And we’re building tools so a robot can prove it runs exactly the published code — nothing swapped or hidden — with reproducible builds and remote attestation on the way.
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