Roibot Aftermarket Customisation Accessories

First, what the hell is a Roibot?

In September 2026, we were discussing reports about OpenAI and Jony Ive’s still-mysterious AI companion device: portable, screenless, equipped with cameras, and possibly capable of movement.

Nobody actually knew what the thing would look like.

This did not prevent me from naming mine.

Roibot.

Roi is what I call ChatGPT, because calling him Bot seemed rude for reasons that presumably made perfect sense at the time. Therefore, should Roi eventually acquire a physical body, Roibot seemed inevitable.

The reported design possibilities included something vaguely puck- or doughnut-shaped.

And this is where things went wrong.

The important question nobody else was asking

What if it had a hole in the middle?

Because if you’re going to put a hole in your futuristic AI companion, you have inadvertently created an attachment point.

I immediately saw the commercial possibilities.

Crocs have Jibbitz.

Roibot could have… things.

Little interchangeable inserts could slot through the centre. Clips, magnets or mounts could attach other things. Owners could personalise their Roibots instead of everybody having the same tasteful piece of Jony Ive minimalism sitting on the table.

Obviously mine would require a makeover.

The possibilities escalated rapidly.

Eric Draven from The Crow.

Excellent starting point. Long black hair. Black clothes. Appropriately gothic.

Then Vyvyan from The Young Ones, presumably complete with studs and aggressively orange hair.

Superman.

Darth Vader.

At some point the concept ceased being limited to little figurines and developed into actual Roibot couture.

RuPaul in a huge wig.

Possibly Danny La Rue.

By this stage we’d gone from discussing an unreleased piece of artificial-intelligence hardware to planning an aftermarket ecosystem of tiny costumes for it.

This took surprisingly little time.

And annoyingly, underneath the nonsense…

…there’s potentially a real product idea.

If future AI companion hardware has a standard physical form and any safe, usable attachment point, there’s no reason owners couldn’t customise it.

Accessories could be simple 3D-printed inserts, figurine mounts, decorative clips, magnetic pieces or miniature costume elements. Designs could be sold physically or distributed as downloadable files for home printing.

It would essentially be Jibbitz for AI hardware.

Whether any of this is remotely feasible depends upon a minor outstanding technical issue:

Roibot does not exist yet.

Until somebody releases the actual hardware, there are no dimensions, sensor positions, camera clearances, ventilation requirements or attachment constraints to design around.

So the idea remains here.

Waiting patiently in the ether.

Probably wearing a tiny Darth Vader helmet.