NAMUHˣ: The Wellness Robot Reimagining How We Live, Breathe And Care

At 7.30 on a hazy Malaysian morning, Olga stands at the window of her suburban home and looks towards a sky that has lost its familiar blue. 

At 40, a mother of three and wife to Jeremy, 45, she has always considered healthy living less a fashionable aspiration than a family discipline. 

Fresh food, exercise, outdoor time, sensible routines — these are the quiet rituals around which their household has been built.

But lately, the children have been spending more time indoors. The haze has made their customary afternoons outside increasingly difficult, while Jeremy, who works on construction sites and lives with asthma, has found the deteriorating air particularly challenging. 

For Olga, the question is no longer simply how to get through another haze episode. It is how to make the home a more considered, responsive environment every day.

This is precisely where NAMUHˣ enters the picture.

Malaysia’s recurring haze is not merely an inconvenience that turns the horizon grey. The Department of Environment maintains a dedicated national haze-response framework, while the World Health Organisation identifies particulate matter — particularly fine PM2.5 — among the pollutants most strongly associated with respiratory and cardiovascular harm. 

Short-term exposure to high particulate levels can also aggravate asthma. 

Against that backdrop, NAMUHˣ proposes an intriguing shift: rather than treating air purification as a stationary household chore, why not make the technology mobile, intelligent and conversational?

Developed by South Korean technology company SK intellix, NAMUHˣ is positioned as wellness robotics rather than simply another air purifier. Its autonomous movement allows one unit to cover spaces of up to 2,000 sq ft, travelling towards areas where its sensors detect changing conditions. 

It monitors fine dust, nitrogen oxides, VOCs, formaldehyde, carbon dioxide, temperature and humidity, bringing environmental awareness into the architecture of everyday living.

Then there is the surprisingly human dimension. With Follow Me, NAMUHˣ can accompany its user or be directed to a particular location for targeted purification and monitoring. 

Live View introduces live video streaming, two-way audio and video recording, allowing users to check on children, pets or their home while away. Through its mobile app, the device remains accessible beyond the walls of the house.

Its conversational capabilities add another layer. Powered by large-language-model technology, NAMUHˣ responds to natural voice interaction rather than demanding that users navigate a maze of controls. It is technology attempting, quite deliberately, to become less technological in the way it behaves.

Most compelling is Vital Sign Check, an AI-enhanced, contactless feature designed to assess five selected wellness indicators in approximately 10 seconds: body temperature, stress level, blood pressure, pulse rate and oxygen saturation. 

These are wellness readings, not medical diagnoses or treatments — an important distinction when technology begins occupying territory traditionally reserved for healthcare professionals.

For Olga, however, the appeal is perhaps simpler. A machine that can move where she moves, monitor the atmosphere, allow her to see her children while she is buying groceries, and provide everyday wellness information begins to resemble less a domestic appliance than another layer of household care.

“Consumers have traditionally relied on separate devices to manage air quality and wellness information. NAMUHˣ brings these experiences together in one device, introducing a new way to experience wellness through robotics,” says Andy Kim Ja Joong, Managing Director, SK intellix Malaysia. “We’ve also made NAMUHˣ fully voice-controlled, because we believe technology should feel natural and human-centric, fitting seamlessly into the way people actually live.

Kim Ja Joong further enthused, “By combining intelligent sensing, wellness monitoring, environmental care and natural voice interaction in a single device, NAMUHˣ moves wellness beyond something we simply manage to something that can more seamlessly and intelligently support the way we live.”

There is a fascinating story behind that philosophy. SK intellix is itself undergoing a transformation. Formerly SK Magic, the Korean company officially changed its corporate name to SK intellix in July 2025 as part of its stated ambition to become an AI wellness platform company, built around customer wellness experiences, AI-driven personalised technology and an open ecosystem. 

NAMUHˣ is consequently more than a product launch. It represents a strategic movement from appliances that perform isolated functions towards intelligent systems designed to participate in daily life. The evolution is already visible: NAMUHˣ has received a CES 2026 Innovation Award, integrated Google’s Gemini, appeared at MWC 2026 and subsequently gained functions including Follow Me through over-the-air software updates. 

For a country periodically reminded that the quality of the air outside cannot always be controlled, perhaps the more meaningful luxury is control over what happens inside.

And that is where Olga’s calculation changes. NAMUHˣ is not presented as a miracle against haze, nor should any wellness device replace medical advice or responsible environmental measures. 

Rather, its proposition is more intelligent: awareness, adaptability and care, woven into everyday domestic life.

At RM199 a month, including two complimentary Air Sensors under the current Malaysian promotional offer, NAMUHˣ asks consumers to reconsider what a household device can be. 

For Olga, the investment is ultimately not about owning the most sophisticated gadget in the room. It is about buying back something considerably more precious: awareness of the environment in which her family lives, a little more connection when she is away, and the quiet reassurance that technology can now move towards the people who need it — rather than waiting for them to come to it.

For more details and pricing olans, visit https://www.namuhx.com.my/ today. 

*Photos courtesy of SK Intellix Malaysia.