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- Mirumi is the latest strange robot from Yukai Engineering
- It’s attached to your bag
- You can “react”
Gadgets that elicit comments like “Why?” and “Is this thing staring at me?” I am both the best CES 2025 or worse. Mirumi, a furry robot that wraps itself around a bag or backpack strap and watches over friends, family and strangers, is that kind of gadget.
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Of course, you would not expect less from Yukai Engineering, a company that has been responsible for the therapeutic furry pillow with a tail. dance and finger chewing Ham Ham Amagami. In this case, the company describes Mirumi as “a mascot robot that spontaneously turns its head to steal a glance at a nearby person.” Yes, that sounds wonderful.
If it’s any consolation, the robot with its puffy gray body (also in pink), round furry head, and googly eyes looks adorable. In fact, you’d look like a little gray chick if it weren’t for the oddly long arms you use to wrap around your purse and bag straps.
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Although Mirumi looks like a stuffed animal, it is full of technology. It has sensors to alert people and objects and the motorized head can turn to “watch them”. Sensors also detect movement. Everything works in concert to create a series of emotional responses, and some of it is designed to make Mirumi respond like a baby or a child in your arms to friends, strangers and unknown objects.
Mirumi can express curiosity – basically, the action of looking around activated by movement. If a person is detected nearby, the head will turn to look. He can also imitate shyness, hiding his head in yours arm.
If you annoy Mirumi by shaking it, the little robot will turn its head back and forth to signal its displeasure.
There were no pricing or availability details at launch, but based on the price of some of Yukai Engineering’s other robots, this one might not cost more than $149.
Whether or not you want such a robot attached to your bag is another question., It could entertain and charm people or make them wonder why that ball of dust on your bag is staring at them.
