 So we're here at the China Sourcing Fair and hi, so who are you? I'm Ryutaro from Google X, and we're from Japan, the startup company. And you're making this little robot here? Yes. Hi, are you speaking English? No. I'm making some noise. So do they speak? I'm just making some noise. Some noise? Some boys? Like a cat and dog? Like a peepee or a cat? Something like that. They don't use any language. Do they follow? So what's the functionality here? Actually, they do not have their productivity, just loving you. So usually walking around, running into you, then they want you to hug, so just playing with you. You can hug it? Yes, of course. How I hug this guy? You put it up, then they're automatically closing the wheel, then changing their mode to hugging. Hugging mode. Yeah, this is a hugging mode. This is too cool. Yeah, and if you hug them, so you feel very relaxed, comfortable, happy. How heavy is this baby? It's like four kilograms. And can you put it on the floor? And the wheels are coming out, then boom. It's coming over to me. Can you call it? Yes. Mate of you. Hey, come this way. Tomato. Tomato. Tomato. Tomato. Tomato. You have another friend. No, tomato come to me. Tomato. Tomato. Hey, tomato. Hi. Are you happy today? Liking all your new friends? It's got many new friends today. So this is potentially good for emotional kind of like attention. Yes. Some people don't have enough. Ah, yes, that's true. So now in Japan we are focusing on some of the nursing home elderly people because you know in Japan there are tons of elderly people who live alone. And also they couldn't have some pet for their partner. So that's why we'd like to provide it as a partner, like talking to… Why they cannot have a pet? Because they couldn't take care of them. Like they need to… Yeah, the pet will not be alive anymore. Yeah, it's not easy to take care of. How much food do you need to give? Food? No need food. No need food. Yeah. No need food. No need to walk. Just need electricity, right? Just electricity. No need to bring outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No need to go pee. No need to go out. Yeah, pee. No, no, no. That's not… It's really easy to take care. And so because I saw… You put it back there. I saw something very interesting a couple of years ago. The nursing homes in Japan buy all the IBO robots. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they go on the second hand market. And they buy all the old ones. But there's no more. And some don't do enough. Yeah. So this is in this market. What's happening potentially could be huge. How about children? Which one is the bigger market for you? Children or old people? Yeah, children is also our forecast earlier. Because, you know, there is tons of children. Only a child. Then they couldn't have the much experience to taking care of the others. So it's like emotional education. So that's why we provide it as a kind of big brother and sister. Then children can take care of it as a brother and sister. So then they can understand emotional education. So it's limited what you can say. It's limited what you can do. But that's also kind of like the state of technology today. You can't have a robot with two legs take out the trash, wash the dishes, all this. It's not yet. So it's a good time to have something simple based on what is possible with technology. So if I go over here, can you, sorry. So what do you show here? What is all this different stuff you have going on? This is a technology spec. So, you know, as you see that there is tons of sensors and tons of motors and tons of CPUs. It's very simple model. But inside his body there's tons of high technology. Flexible link shoulders. Yeah. Nanosurro motor. Yeah. There's a lithium-ion battery. Where is the lithium-ion battery? Is it behind? On the bottom. On the bottom. Where kind of like the... This is the bottom camera to detecting the obstacle and the distance. So this is dual camera to detection. How long is the battery? 45 minutes. So every hour they need to go back to their charging station. They know how to do this? They can do that. So by automatically. They can easily go and sit on their little pot. It's like a pot, right? Yes. This is not the commercial one. So we can bring it to their charging station for their automatically charging. So they need to connect their little lithium-ion thing on the butt-pot. Yes. And then they charge up? Yes. We are calling it Nest. They're nesting. Yes. They're nesting their little battery. Yes. Okay. And then over here is a nose switch. Yeah. You switch on the nose. Yes. Can you show it? Yes. Play with them. Like if you put something. Like they're the oxygen something. Stuff happens when you click on the nose. This guy's happy. Hey tomato. Can I touch your nose? Yes. So all the sensors interact with the robot. That's all. Very simple. How loud is the speaker? Ah. Because sometimes elderly have a problem hearing. Yeah. It's loud enough. But it's barely enough. Where you are in the room. How about playing music? No. No. You can have a different radio. You can buy a radio. Yeah. You got clothes? You can put clothes on it? Yes. Actually, as you see there's a whale in the clothes. Underneath the tools they have skin and also whale in the clothes. Because you guys have tons of the hugging. Can you take off the clothes? That's complicated. I can show you. So now. It feels like little pampers. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Like this. The clothes will be dirty. So you can change it by yourself. Then you can change some clothes. Like your green one or red one. You can choose it. You can make your own dress for it. Ah. Yes. Hopefully, yes. But for the first, we can provide it as a workshop. Yeah. Some people like to make, you know. Yeah. Maybe make a little jacket. Yeah. People could do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And for the fashion. So, yeah. And let's put it on the floor again. Okay. What's the name of this guy? Hey cucumber. Wazabi. Hey Wazabi. Wazabi. Wazabi. You don't want to go? No. You don't want to go? Some people's face. So that's why it's important to hug. You want me to hug you? I will hug you. Don't worry. You're not alone. I'm looking for other people. Hold on here. Wazabi. You don't want to run around after me? Come over here. Come here. I think Wazabi doesn't really like me. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes he likes you. Right. Yeah. I think he wants to go back up on the table maybe. Yeah. What do you call it? So it's got two wheels in the front. Yes. And what's happening in the back? Another wheel in the back. Another caster to control the motion. All right. All right. So what's next? What's next? Mass production. Do you have some projects going on? Yes. We already start to sell in Japan at this moment. Then end of this year, finally we set it in Japan first. Then next year we'd like to provide it globally. You are in the United States and China and in the EU. Yeah. We'd like to expand our business global. What do you have projects going on in Europe? Yes. Now we are thinking of testing in Denmark. Because Denmark is the welfare technology country. So that's why we'd like to test in Denmark to have a scientific... In the elderly's home? Yes. In the nursing home. In the nursing home. Yeah. We'll be a little... Wasabi and a little tomato. Yeah. Maybe doing some testing. Yes. And seeing if hopefully the elderly get happy and don't get angry with these guys. Yeah. There's no chance they will get angry, right? Yes. And they don't turn angry. Yes. They're always happy. Sometimes they have some trouble. Like if you hit them, they will be angry. If you do what? If you hit them like this one, then they will be angry. Do you update the software remotely? Yeah, of course. So we provided the cloud services. Then if you connect to the internet, you can get the latest version of the software through the cloud. Because what's so crucial is to have AI and learn from the interactions and learn who's interacting and become better at being a nice friend. Yeah. And you have stuff like that going on? Yeah. Almost all is calculated locally. I mean they understand your face in the locally. After that, they have tons of memory with each person. After that, they have the emotional relationship with. And what's going on here with them? You said there's a main computer, high performance. Do you run some nice, super nice ARM processor in there or something? Yes. ARM processor and Intel CPU and also the FPGA. Inside? Yeah, inside. You have everything? Yeah. ARM, X86 and FPGA? Yes. And what's the, is it Linux or secret? Yes, based on the Linux. Linux? Yeah. And then you have your software going on there? Yeah. And what's the price? Is there a price or not really? Yeah, now we're planning. But maybe almost 4,000 US dollars in our unit. Great.