Yukai Engineering is known for its creative robotics products, whose creations often stand out for their unique interactive methods and delightful designs. From the early Amagami Ham Ham to the latest Mirumi, Yukai Engineering has always been committed to exploring more interesting and emotional interactions between humans and robots. Mirumi, the latest "furry ball in your wallet", continues Yukai Engineering's consistent style and brings surprise and joy to users with its unique "peeping" behavior. This article will delve into Mirumi’s design philosophy, functions and technical features.
Yukai Engineering is known for its innovative and quirky robot products, especially its classics like the Amagami Ham Ham, a robot that attracted widespread attention for its unique function of biting fingers to bring about a "slightly pleasurable feeling." At CES2025, Yukai launched its latest robot product, Mirumi, continuing this tradition.
Mirumi is a small furry ball attached to a purse that is unique in that it can "spontaneously turn its head to peek at nearby people," a behavior that brings pleasure to onlookers. Like Amagami Ham Ham's finger chews, Mirumi is inspired by babies and is designed to mimic the innocence and joy babies display when interacting.
According to Yukai Engineering, Mirumi moves its head in a variety of ways to express baby-like emotions, such as curiosity, shyness, and more. The original intention of this design is to recreate the joyful emotions that people experience when interacting with babies. The product was conceived during the company's internal "Make-a-Thon" event and was inspired by yokai - those mischievous supernatural spirits from Japanese folklore.
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Mirumi's core technology includes motion sensing and proximity sensing, combined with the ability for the bag to tap and move to scan its surroundings. It has several different behavior modes:
Curiosity: When the bag starts to move, Mirumi will look around and show curiosity.
Curiosity: When it spots a person or object nearby, Mirumi will turn its head to observe.
Shy and Cautious: When a person or object suddenly appears, or is patted, Mirumi will turn its head to hide its face, showing a shy emotion.
Rejection: When shaken, Mirumi will shake its head to indicate "no".
Comfort: In an undisturbed state, Mirumi will stay briefly for a moment, then turn around again to look around.
This little robot not only has interesting interactive functions, but also brings people an emotional communication experience like a baby, further demonstrating Yukai Engineering's unique position in the field of strange and interesting robot products.
Mirumi skillfully combines technology and emotion to bring users a new interactive experience. It is not just a robot, but more like a spiritual playmate, allowing people to feel the warmth and fun brought by technology. Yukai Engineering has once again proven its prowess in creating unique and emotional robotic products, and we look forward to more innovations in the future.