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Yukai Engineering is a robotics company founded 2007, based in Japan, developing 1 robot primarily in the Education category.
Communication robots that bring people closer together.
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.
Total funding
US$5.8M
Active products
1
Maker Score
56
Strong evidence
View factor breakdown
Price range
$120
1 of 1 priced
Top-rated product
64.1
RoboScore
Qoobo
Company facts
- Legal name
- Yukai Engineering Inc.
- HQ
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 2007 · 19 yrs
Maker Score
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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
2.0momentumJapan'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.
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