Mirumi The Furry Companion Robot Is Now Available On Kickstarter

Unlike a robovac, Mirumi will ne'er eat a sock aliases get stuck nether furniture. | Image: Yukai Engineering

Among a oversea of caller TVs, robovacs, and smart glasses, Yukai Engineering’s Mirumi was a unsocial standout astatine CES 2025 earlier this year. The mini robot has nary applicable intent different than looking adorable and bringing a grin to people’s faces by simulating an inquisitive personality. The institution planned to merchandise nan companion bot sometime successful mid-2025, but specified weeks earlier nan twelvemonth ends Mirumi is yet disposable for preorder done a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

Yukai Engineering primitively expected Mirumi to beryllium priced astatine astir $70, but a batch has happened astir nan world since January, and nan mini bot will really costs astir doubly that. The earliest Kickstarter backers tin preorder Mirumi pinch gray, pink, aliases ivory fur for 18,360 yen, aliases astir $118 pinch discounts. If you resistance your feet, nan crowdfunding pricing will extremity up astatine 21,803 yen, aliases astir $140, but that’s still discounted from nan afloat unit pricing, which is expected to beryllium $150.

Following nan Kickstarter location will beryllium a spot much waiting, arsenic Mirumi isn’t expected to vessel until April 2026 astatine nan earliest, but arsenic pinch immoderate crowdfunded product, it’s not a bad thought to brace yourself for delays.

Instead of cleaning floors aliases mowing your lawn, Mirumi is positioned arsenic a companion robot, but 1 that will use others much often. Using a agelong brace of arms nan robot attaches to container straps aliases handles and appears to curiously look astir by turning and cocking its caput from broadside to side.

Using a region sensor Mirumi tin besides observe adjacent group and look to attraction its regard and attraction connected them, but will besides simulate nan bashful consequence of an babe by shaking and turning its caput distant erstwhile personification abruptly appears aliases touches it. Mirumi isn’t overpacked pinch functionality, and that could beryllium its biggest appeal. It conscionable hangs retired pinch you and softly watches nan world spell by while occasionally brightening someone’s time pinch conscionable a look.