I remember seeing the Beni robot with Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) months ago, and I thought it was adorable. I needed to have one. At the time, it was still a Kickstarter project raising millions.
Now, the WALL-E of modern-day content creation is available to buy, starting at $799. Mondo Robotics is shipping it to the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and China.
Meet Beni, your personal non-apocalyptic WALL-E robot
Mondo Robotics announced Beni’s launch in a recent press release, following the Palo Alto startup’s Kickstarter campaign. The company was founded only in 2025, and the robot is its first product.
It looks like a cartoon sidekick and has a white, boxy body on two chunky gray wheels, with two round lights up front that appear as its eyes. The camera sits between them, and two orange fins stick up from the back like ears.
Mondo even sells little hats to put on top. A small handheld tracker with an orange button pairs with a wrist band, so Beni knows who to follow and can track you automatically from multiple angles without needing manual steering.
The robot steers around most obstacles and can also jump up to 10 inches, which is how it climbs stairs. It moves at up to 17.9 mph, which is enough to keep pace with a jogger or a cyclist on an easy level ride. If it tips over, it rights itself.
An adventure unlike any other
Beni can go with you for family outings, sports training, and get-ready-with-me videos. It uses a 1/1.3-inch sensor, larger than many phone ultrawide cameras, with an f/2.8 aperture and an ISO range of 100 to 12,800.
You could say the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is the best match for a comparison, because its 200MP main camera uses the same 1/1.3-inch sensor size as Beni. Its f/1.4 aperture lets in far more light than Beni’s f/2.8 lens, though, so the phone has the edge in dim scenes.
Beni records 4K at up to 60fps, 1080p at up to 120fps for slow motion, and vertical 3K video for TikTok and Instagram Reels. Your footage saves to 32GB of built-in storage or a microSD card, and all the filming and tracking run on the robot itself. Setup takes under five minutes.
Its battery lasts about 90 minutes and takes an hour to recharge. Beni also weighs 4 pounds, or 1.8kg, and measures roughly 6.5 by 8.5 by 8.6 inches. Though these aren’t particularly forgiving numbers for a robot meant to follow you all day, they’re workable with a little planning.
You may want to carry a spare battery or two for longer outings, and a bag with enough room to tuck Beni away.
The Standard Combo includes the robot itself, the motion tracker and wrist band, a hat, a chest plate for protection, and one battery. For $160 more, you can get the Explore Combo, which adds two more batteries, a charging hub, and off-road wheels for grass and rougher ground. Extra batteries, trackers, hats, and plates are also sold separately.
