temi V3 vs LG CLOi ServeBot: A Telepresence Robot Versus a Table Delivery Robot

The temi V3 has a 13.3-inch touchscreen, a 20 W speaker and four microphones with beamforming. It moves autonomously, follows a chosen person without a remote and remembers named locations, navigating with 360° LiDAR and front cameras. It has no arm and no shelves, so it carries nothing. The maker gives no weight or battery runtime in the material available.

The CLOi ServeBot has the opposite profile: no advertising screens, only shelves of about 50×40 cm each and a payload of up to 30 kg in total. Navigation uses LiDAR, a 3D camera, ToF sensors and a bumper, and charging takes about 5 hours. Height, weight and runtime are not given. In practice the temi V3 is a communication tool and the ServeBot a logistics one. Decide first whether you need something that guides a guest or something that brings a tray, and only then compare prices (“How to Read a Robot Datasheet”).

The temi V3 is about four times cheaper. The WiFi version costs USD 4,499, which at the NBP rate of 1 October 2026 (3.8762) is about PLN 17,439 (≈ EUR 4,000); the model with a 4G/5G module is USD 5,499. On RaaS the rate starts at USD 125 a month. The CLOi ServeBot costs USD 17,900 (about PLN 69,384 (≈ EUR 15,900) at 3.8762 on 1 October 2026) or USD 746 a month at RobotLAB, nearly six times as much on subscription. The gap on subscription is therefore wider than on purchase.

Neither robot has a confirmed Polish distributor. The temi is sold mainly through RobotLAB and resellers in Western Europe, and the ServeBot has one documented channel in the sources available, the US-based RobotLAB. For comparison, the dearer GuideBot from the LG CLOi family costs USD 39,990 (LG CLOi GuideBot). Importing means adding VAT, transport and service; we describe how to calculate total cost in “Humanoid Robot TCO: How to Calculate Total Cost”.

The temi V3 fits where human contact counts: at a reception desk, in a healthcare facility for teleconsultations, for guiding visitors (hospitals). Its camera and microphones also need assessing under GDPR (“Data Security: Robots with Cameras and the GDPR”). The ServeBot fits restaurants and hotels (restaurants), where it is meant to relieve staff of carrying tableware; a subscription is the cheaper way in for a venue that wants to test automation without a large investment. If you are looking for a purpose-built serving robot with Polish backing, consider the Pudu BellaBot or the cheaper Bear Robotics Servi. The whole segment is covered in the category “Service robots”.