The partnership brings together Tuya’s AI+IoT capabilities and Zeroth’s embodied intelligence expertise, transforming home robots from standalone task performers to intelligent, context-aware home companions.
Tuya Smart, a global AI cloud platform service provider, announced a partnership with Zeroth focused on embodied intelligence for consumers. The two companies will combine Tuya’s AI+IoT ecosystem and Zeroth’s robotics expertise to jointly develop robot-powered smart living scenarios, enabling home service robots to evolve from simple task performers to intelligent and adaptable household companions.
Once robots gain the ability to perceive their environment, actively collaborate, and continuously learn, they will become true members of your home working in conjunction with your smart devices, expanding the possibilities of smart living.
However, home service robots have long operated as isolated tools, unable to communicate with the broader smart home ecosystem. This lack of integration is a key bottleneck in developing next-generation smart living experiences. The partnership between Tuya Smart and Zeroth is designed to address this challenge head-on, allowing robots to be fully integrated into connected homes and act as “super mobile terminals” and “proactive household managers.”
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Tight integration across the smart home ecosystem
As a brand focused on embodied intelligence for consumers, Zeroth is dedicated to the research, development, and application of robotics and artificial intelligence, with products spanning family interaction, multi-scenario interaction, and exploration of complex environments.
Powered by Tuya’s proprietary Physical AI Engine (PAE) architecture, Zeroth’s robots are deeply integrated with AI+IoT devices throughout your home. Rather than working alone, the robots act as intelligence hubs in the home, coordinating lighting, air conditioning, curtains, security and energy management systems, and collaboratively performing complex household tasks.
For example, when a user wakes up in the morning, the robot works with a connected smart device to adjust the lighting to soft, warm tones, play soothing morning music, and provide instructions about the day’s weather and schedule.
Zeroth’s robots are equipped with onboard vision, audio, and other built-in sensors. Through integration with Tuya’s whole-home sensor matrix, including air quality, human presence, and ambient light sensors, this partnership delivers real-time, high-fidelity sensor fusion. This effectively gives smart homes both “mobility” and “extended range,” enabling a leap from localized sensing to comprehensive awareness of the entire home.
For robots to be truly adaptive companions, they need robust cognitive and memory capabilities. Zeroth’s “embodied brain” integrates Tuya’s OmniMem long-term memory engine, allowing the robot to proactively adjust its behavior based on past interactions. For example, it remembers your child’s favorite games or your elderly family member’s daily routine, providing a more personalized experience over time.
Bridging cloud intelligence and physical execution
This collaboration addresses a long-standing industry challenge: the disconnect between cloud-based AI and physical hardware. This partnership will help bridge this gap and bring robots deeper into real-world home scenarios across real-world home scenarios, such as caring for the elderly, chaperoning children, and monitoring pets, delivering accessible, intuitive, and empathetic smart services to families around the world.
Going forward, the companies plan to deepen the synergy between local edge computing and cloud-based AI to enable robots to orchestrate devices throughout the home with sub-second response times, even offline and in low-connectivity environments. Furthermore, both parties will work together to build an open, embodied intelligence ecosystem, enabling global developers to bring innovative ideas to life, and jointly shaping the future of smart living, which is perceptive, collaborative, and human-centric.
