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Jibo is a robotics company founded 2012, based in United States.
CAPITAL
Funded · no products listed on Robolist yet
Raised
US$41.0M
across 2 confirmed rounds · latest Dec 2015
- Dec 2015· US$16.0M· Forbes ↗Correct this round
- Jan 2015· US$25.0M· Forbes ↗· 4 outletsCorrect this round
Confirmed rounds recorded from January 2017. Every amount links to its source.
Correct this →The first social robot for the home.
Jibo, Inc. built Jibo, a consumer social robot for home use with cameras and microphones for face recognition, voice interaction, and companionship. The company was based in Boston and also operated with additional offices in Silicon Valley; it targeted consumers rather than industrial buyers.
Company facts
- Legal name
- Jibo Inc.
- HQ
- Boston, United States
- Founded
- 2012 · 14 yrs
- Employees
- 19
- Website
- www.jibo.com
RoboScore
42.87 RoboScore + 0.82 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.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Awards & recognition
- Time Magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 20172017si.umich.edu ↗
Milestones
Officially launched the Jibo home social robot for consumers.
Company founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
Press coverage
- Jibo social robot: where things went wrong
The Robot Report
- Jibo - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Location
CB Insights
- Meet Jibo, Your New Best Friend: Introducing The First Social Robot For The Home
PR Newswire · Oct 2017
In the news
3 events · last 90 days
+0.82momentumof 15 maxJibo Is as Good as Social Robots Get. But Is That Good Enough?
In the news
3 events · last 90 days
Why Jibo has been in the news, across 3 outlets — 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
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
Active products by Jibo
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