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Yukai Engineering is a robotics company founded 2007, based in Japan, developing 1 robot primarily in the Education category.
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Yukai Engineering is a Tokyo-based robotics company founded in 2007 that develops and sells communication robots, including the BOCCO family notification robot and Qoobo, a therapeutic tail-wagging cushion robot. Its products are consumer-oriented and aimed at comfort, home communication, and companionship, with sales in Japan and, for Qoobo, U.S. consumer availability announced in 2018.
Company facts
- Legal name
- Yukai Engineering Inc.
- HQ
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 2007 · 19 yrs
RoboScore
58.41 RoboScore + 0.09 Momentum· Strong 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.
5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Milestones
Qoobo was announced for U.S. consumer availability.
Yukai Engineering was founded in Tokyo.
Press coverage
- Qoobo, a therapeutic cat robot that arrived straight from Japan
Robot Advance
- Qoobo, a Tail-Wagging Robotic Pillow, Now Available in the U.S.
UX-XU · Dec 2018
- qoobo cushion acts as interactive pet-pillow that ...
Designboom · Oct 2017
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
+0.09momentumof 15 maxJapan's Casio and Yukai Engineering Fuel Robot Pets & Emotional
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
Why Yukai Engineering 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.
Education buying guides
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