Rick and Morty’s iconic Butter Bot is finally real

A new Kickstarter campaign has launched a fitting tribute to one of Rick and Morty’s best gags. The Butter Bot, a self-aware robot that is only designed to pass the butter, can now be yours.

Of course, the Butter Bot – which is planned for an August 2025 release – can do a lot more than what Rick originally intended.

It starts at $139, but paying more will get you additional modules. The companies behind the project, Geek Club and CircuitMess, haven’t announced what modules are included. However, the upgraded pack starts at $219, which includes the Geek Tools Kit Box, which currently retails at $59.

The Butter Bot is built using a small dual-core microcontroller, with an “AI camera” – similar to Raspberry Pi’s. This allows it to detect various objects and interact with them. It has a range of functions, including face detection, and can detect edges with an IR LED to stop it from crashing.

Butter Bot will also come with a remote, which will let you view the built-in camera, and take over control. It’s another small microcontroller, with an embedded screen and direct commands so you don’t have to yell at it all the time.

However, the Kickstarter features a distinct lack of actual butter passing. Instead, Butter Bot will have the option to play with you across some basic games. Flip a coin, hangman and rock, paper, scissors are just a few of the built-in games.

There are a number of stretch goals, which at the time of writing, have knocked off targets, including the $200K (dance mode) and $300K (more skins for the user interface on the controller). The $700K target will introduce a “visual block programming” language on the controller, letting users create their own actions.

As expected for a Rick and Morty-branded robot, it has smashed past the $20,000 goal and is nearing $350,000 at the time of writing. The project’s time limit is set for December 5, 4:05 pm UTC, so there’s still time for it to hit the larger goals.

Geek Club and CircuitMess have shipped eight Kickstarters already, including a Batmobile.

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