SwitchBot AI Hub Enhances OpenClaw Experience with New “AI Agent Plan” and One-Click Deployment

AI Agent Plan Launched: High-Performance LLMs for Daily Life, First Month Free
1. Key Features
One-Click Deployment: OpenClaw Made More Accessible
OpenClaw: AI Agents at the Heart of Your Home
SwitchBot AI Hub: Powerful Standalone Capabilities
1. VLM Intelligence for Visual Understanding
2. Robust Local Hub for Privacy and Expandability
Sale Information: Enhance Your New Life and Golden Week with an AI Smart Home
About SwitchBot
Company Overview

AI Agent Plan Launched: High-Performance LLMs for Daily Life, First Month Free

The AI Agent Plan offers LLM requests for utilizing OpenClaw on the AI Hub. Previously, OpenClaw required users to set up their own external AI service API keys. This new plan reduces the initial setup effort, enabling smoother integration of OpenClaw with the AI Hub.

First-time OpenClaw users on the AI Hub can enjoy the first month free. Following months will be charged at ¥269 (tax included) per month, providing 8,000 requests. Should the basic allowance be exceeded, additional requests can be purchased as needed.

Key Features

No External LLM API Key Required: OpenClaw can be used without individually preparing API keys.
Up to 8,000 High-Performance LLM Requests Monthly: A substantial allowance for typical household use.
Control SwitchBot Devices via Skills: Freely customize an AI smart home.
Comprehensive Support for Daily Life: From automation to information retrieval.

The first month free offer applies only to initial OpenClaw setup on the AI Hub. The request allowance is optimized for household use, generally sufficient for daily operations and automation even with approximately 30 connected SwitchBot devices. Request consumption varies based on usage, number of connected devices, and execution content.

One-Click Deployment: OpenClaw Made More Accessible

Previously, using OpenClaw involved certain preparations, such as environment setup and API configurations. The AI Hub has streamlined the OpenClaw deployment experience, allowing users to effortlessly set up an AI agent environment with a single click, without complex settings.

SwitchBot Skills and Channels are pre-set, enabling immediate use of OpenClaw for batch device operations and VLM-integrated SwitchBot device collaborations without intricate preparations.

The process of launching OpenClaw with one click is demonstrated in an official X (Twitter) video:
https://x.com/SwitchBotJapan/status/2048658403774411046?s=20

SwitchBot Skills operate devices, and Channels retrieve device states. SwitchBot does not guarantee the behavior of OpenClaw itself, external skills, or LLM judgment content. For safety-critical operations like smart lock unlocking, secondary confirmation or approval flow settings are recommended.

OpenClaw: AI Agents at the Heart of Your Home

AI Hub × OpenClaw: Towards an Autonomous Smart Home

OpenClaw is an AI agent capable of understanding user instructions and executing tasks across multiple services and devices. The AI Hub provides the execution environment, eliminating the need for a PC or complex environment setup, allowing for easy adoption of autonomous agents. The combination of AI Hub and OpenClaw transforms the smart home from a system that reacts to commands into an autonomous AI agent that understands the user’s life and proposes and executes necessary actions.

Chat App as Your Control Interface

Supporting over 50 major chat apps, including LINE, Discord, iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram, users can give basic commands like “Tell me the living room temperature” or “Turn on the bedroom air conditioner.” Even ambiguous instructions like “It’s a bit cold” are understood by the AI, which then coordinates devices such as curtains, lights, and air conditioners to create the optimal environment.

Advanced Situational Judgment with VLM Integration

VLM (Vision-Language Model) analyzes camera footage. For instance, if a person is detected falling, the system can notify pre-set emergency contacts, enabling advanced automation and device operations tailored to the situation.

Proactive Smart Home with Long-Term Memory

User habits derived from conversations and observations are stored locally as “memories” within the AI Hub. After a period of learning, proactive automation becomes possible, such as “On Friday nights, automatically turn on the gaming PC and lighting upon returning home, setting up the gaming environment.”

Cross-Brand Unified Control

OpenClaw’s “Skills” enable device operation across different ecosystems, including Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa, and Home Assistant.

SwitchBot AI Hub: Powerful Standalone Capabilities

Even without OpenClaw, the AI Hub, equipped with a 6TOPS AI chip, functions as a smart home command center. It achieves visual comprehension and privacy considerations in local operations by linking with the cloud VLM plan “AI+”.

VLM Intelligence for Visual Understanding

VLM (Visual Language Model) Logging and Search: Camera footage is converted into descriptive text, such as “who, where, and what they were doing.” Specific scenes can be instantly searched using keywords like “person in black clothes” or “brown cat.”
AI Summary Function: AI summarizes daily events, allowing users to grasp the home situation in seconds without reviewing footage.
Advanced VLM Triggers: Detects “specific actions” to trigger notifications or appliance operations, ideal for advanced automation tailored for monitoring purposes.

VLM functions require a subscription to the “AI+ Plan.” The regular monthly fee is ¥1,680 (tax included), with a limited-time offer of ¥890 (tax included) per month for 12 months.

Robust Local Hub for Privacy and Expandability

Frigate-equipped Local NVR: Supports up to 1TB microSD cards and up to 16TB external HDDs. All footage is stored locally. Up to 8 cameras can be centrally managed by one AI Hub. Outputting to a monitor via HDMI allows for a single-screen overview of the entire home.
Local Facial and Object Recognition: The 6TOPS AI chip enables facial recognition. By registering family members’ facial information, recorded data can be automatically categorized based on the individuals present.
Strong Local Hub: Compatible with over 100 SwitchBot products and up to 30 Matter bridge products. Features 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication range of up to 200m*. Home Assistant is also supported.

Bluetooth communication range is based on measurements in an unobstructed environment and may vary depending on the actual usage environment.

Sale Information: Enhance Your New Life and Golden Week with an AI Smart Home

SwitchBot AI Hub

Official Price: ¥39,980 (tax included)
Sale Price: ¥35,860 (tax included)
Discount Rate: 10% OFF

A limited-time sale is currently running on Amazon and the official website.

Amazon
- Sale Period: April 21 (Tuesday) – May 4 (Monday), 2026
- Purchase Page: https://t.co/JSljDK0izY
Official Website
- Sale Period: April 21 (Tuesday) – April 30 (Thursday), 2026
- Purchase Page: https://t.co/dMJ7ica2NJ

The sale may end earlier than the stated period depending on product stock availability. Prices are based on information published on the Amazon official store. Prices and various conditions may differ on other SwitchBot official stores.

About SwitchBot

SwitchBot is a global robotics manufacturer that operates the smart home brand “SwitchBot,” with over 2 million households in Japan and more than 5 million cumulative units sold worldwide across over 100 countries and regions, as well as the robotics brand group “OneRobotics.”

With the mission “To enrich and make people’s lives at home more comfortable through technological innovation,” the company aims to realize a society where robots take over daily physical and mental burdens. To create “leisure” for people’s time and minds, and to support daily life through technology, allowing immersion in truly important human activities, joys, and inspirations, the company currently operates the following three brands:

SwitchBot: Embodied AI and smart home robots for households.
Acemate: Robotics specialized in the sports sector.
ONERO: Development of humanoid robots and AI core technologies.