Taiwan PC giant ASUS used its Computex 2026 stage to push beyond laptops and motherboards, unveiling a trio of agentic-AI products aimed at care and service robotics: the Next-Generation Companion Robot, the Kairo autonomous service robot, and the ASUS Maestro orchestration platform that ties them together.
A Home Companion That Remembers
The Next-Generation Companion Robot is pitched as an always-on personalized assistant for seniors and other in-home users. ASUS says the robot can hold natural conversations, schedule routines, draft messages in apps like LINE and organize photos, building a memory of life events so it grows closer to its user over time. When the user leaves home, the conversation continues over a messaging app, so the robot effectively follows them across devices.
Kairo Targets Hospitals First
Kairo is an autonomous service robot designed for navigating crowded, dynamic environments such as hospitals and senior living centers. The platform supports guided escorts, follow-me assistance and real-time info delivery, with emotion-aware multilingual AI that adjusts its tone on the fly. ASUS is validating the platform first in healthcare deployments and pitching it as a template for other complex service settings.
Maestro Becomes The Brain
ASUS Maestro is a unified AI orchestration layer that connects robots, IoT devices, systems and workflows through standardized APIs. It coordinates multi-device tasks, exposes a single command center for operators and runs across on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployments. Through Agent-to-Agent coordination it routes a request to whichever robot is best placed to act, then notifies the user when the task is done.
Why It Matters
ASUS is staking out a position in the agentic AI race against vertically integrated Chinese rivals such as Pudu Embodied, Unitree and Japans GMO AI Robotics. By building from a healthcare validation base, the company is also leaning into Taiwans aging-society policy push, which has prioritized robotics-led elder care.
Reporting based on coverage from ASUS Pressroom, Reuters, and Macau Business Computex 2026 dispatches.