Cowboy Machines
A painted playroom at night: Theo and his little sister Dani play on a glowing floor while Trick-E, a small blue robot truck in a cowboy hat, lifts a toy block with his crane arm.

Cowboy Machines

The future is beautiful.

We build robots and tell stories about a future where children, nature and machines belong together. Meet Trick-E: our first robot, and the hero of our first adventure.

Meet Trick-E Read the first story

For developers

We build robots and tell stories about a future where children, nature and machines belong together. Meet Trick-E: our first robot, and the hero of our first adventure.

Meet Trick-E Read the first story

For developers

Meet Trick-E

A truck with a crane, a face and a trailer

Trick-E is a toy-sized robot truck with a cowboy hat. He has a screen for a face, one arm that works like a crane, and a trailer he tows behind him. He drives around the room on tracks, picks toys up off the floor and drops them in the trailer. Then he looks for the next one.

He's small. He's not fast. He's very keen. He's not a machine that tidies a room while you're out; he's one a kid wants to help.

More about Trick-E

Comic panel: Theo and Dani kneel on the living-room rug beside Trick-E. Caption: Hello! It's me, Trick-E. I'm a cowboy truck because I have a cowboy hat and one arm.

The stories

Theo, Dani and Trick-E

Theo is eight. His little sister Dani is three. Their papa built them a robot truck, and the truck tells the stories.

Trick-E narrates every adventure from down near the floor: what he sees, what he gets excited about, and what he completely misunderstands. In the first one he goes to school for toy day, packs spare batteries in case the school is in Antarctica, and ends up solving a crime. Sort of.

Read it as a comic in English or German, or listen to it in English.

Read or listen

Cover of Adventures of Theo and Trick-E: The Case of the Missing Computers. Theo peers through a magnifying glass, Trick-E beside him.

For developers

A small robot your coding agent can drive

Trick-E is built on parts you already know: a stock SO-101 arm, a Raspberry Pi 5, LeRobot and MuJoCo. Plug him into your Claude Code or Codex agent and it can drive him, look through his cameras, pick things up and put them down, run his skills, and improve them in a simulated room, keeping only what beats the old version.

A character on your desk, with a hat, that your agent can reason about.

Get early access What your agent can do
  • SO-101 arm
  • Raspberry Pi 5
  • LeRobot
  • MuJoCo
  • Claude Code
  • Codex

Drive

Tracks, cab nod and arm through one motion interface.

See

Four cameras: hat, two doors, arm.

Pick and place

Look, grab, drop, check it landed in the trailer.

Improve

New skills earn their place in a simulated kids' room.