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Iris Robotics is a robotics company founded 2021, based in Japan, developing 1 robot primarily in the Commercial Cleaning category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Iris Robotics has no confirmed funding round on file and has 1 cited customer but no deployment on record.
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1customer cited
named in a public source · no deployment on record
- Daiei· 2021pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against Iris Robotics.
In Commercial Cleaning, Gausium, Tennant and Avidbots have deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →Commercial robot venture for cleaning and delivery robots in Japan
Iris Robotics is a Japanese commercial robotics venture formed by SoftBank Robotics and Iris Ohyama. It sells and services the Whiz i Iris Edition cleaning robot in Japan and also introduced a delivery/serving robot variant, Servi Iris Edition, for restaurants, hotels, inns, and retail stores. The company is based in Sendai and focuses on robot commercialization, sales, and service for business customers in Japan.
Company facts
- HQ
- Sendai, Japan
- Founded
- 2021 · 5 yrs
- Website
- irisrobotics.co.jp
RoboScore
43.74 RoboScore + 2.87 Momentum· Speculative — thin evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
4 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #101 of 125·Commercial Cleaning·best robot 45.09 + depth 0.00 + news 2.87 = total 47.96
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
SoftBank Robotics and Iris Ohyama formed Iris Robotics as a joint venture in Sendai, Japan.
The venture launched Whiz i Iris Edition as an updated cleaning robot based on Whiz.
The venture introduced Servi Iris Edition, a delivery robot for food and items in hospitality and retail settings.
Press coverage
- Softbank partners with Iris Ohyama to retool robotics play
The Robot Report · Jan 2021
- SoftBank teams with home-goods maker Iris Ohyama for new robotics venture
TechCrunch · Jan 2021
- Robots in retail: Rolling out the Whiz
PMC · Nov 2022
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
+2.87momentumof 15 maxMeet Iris: England’s new two-legged delivery robot
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
Why Iris Robotics has been in the news, across 1 outlet — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.
Active products by Iris Robotics
1 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whiz i (Iris Edition) | Commercial Cleaning | Runtime 3.6 hr | $159 | 45.1 |
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