SwitchBot

SwitchBot is the consumer brand of Woan Robotics, a Shenzhen company founded in 2015 by Harbin Institute of Technology graduates Li Zhichen and Pan Yang. It built its reputation on retrofit automation — the original SwitchBot is a small Bluetooth actuator that physically presses existing wall switches and buttons — and expanded into smart locks, hubs, curtain and blind motors, sensors, and robot vacuums sold across 90-plus countries. The parent, listed as OneRobotics / Woan Robotics, completed a Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPO on 31 December 2025, raising roughly HK$1.64 billion (about $206 million) and pitching itself as a pure-play AI home-robotics company alongside an emerging line of embodied home robots. The SwitchBot Lock and Lock Pro add keypad, fingerprint, and app entry to existing deadbolts without replacing the hardware.