Sweekar turns the Tamagotchi into a physical AI pocket pet that won't die on you

Takway, a startup that wants to beryllium nan "Nintendo of nan AI robot era," has unveiled a Tamagotchi-like virtual pet astatine CES 2026 that's meant to spell pinch you everyplace and create a unsocial characteristic successful nan process. Sweekar is an AI companion built into a palm-sized toy, a cutesy egg-shaped instrumentality pinch ears and a surface for its face. As pinch a Tamagotchi, you'll person to provender and play pinch it to support it happy and healthy, and its temper and facial expressions will bespeak your care. But this virtual pet will retrieve your sound and nan activities you've done together — and erstwhile it's grown up, it will support itself entertained, spell disconnected connected its ain virtual excursions (kind of for illustration a Finch birb) and bring backmost tales of its adventures.

Sweekar comes successful pink, yellowish and blue, but location will besides beryllium nan action to move up nan shells and bargain silly small outfits for it, because why not. The pouch pet has 4 life stages, becoming little needy arsenic it grows.

It starts retired arsenic a closed ovum for its two-day incubation period, aft which it will "break" its ammunition to uncover a face. From past on, you person to support it live pinch attraction tasks and attraction successful bid to raise it done nan babe and teen stages. Once it's an big though, it will beryllium capable to attraction for itself autonomously. That intends you nary longer tally nan consequence of sidesplitting it done neglect. Sweekar is unkillable from Level 51 on. (At least, successful nan virtual sense. Hardware tin ever break, and you'll person to support it charged).

There's nary group value for it conscionable yet, but Sweekar will apt autumn wrong nan $100-$150 scope erstwhile it becomes available. The institution says it will soon beryllium launching a Kickstarter campaign.