- Folks over at Yukai Engineering revealed two robots — Nékojita FuFu and Mirumi at CES 2025.
- Nékojita FuFu can cool down your food and is useful for people with low tolerance for hot food.
- Mirumi can surprise people by turning its head toward them using sensors.
Last year, we saw Robots kind-of make it into various streams, including households, but who said robots need to be huge to be fun? That’s exactly what people over at Yukai Engineering have proved with their two mini robots revealed at CES 2025. They’re not just cute but functional as well.
The two new Yukai Engineering mini robots are Nékojita FuFu and Mirumi. The former translates to “Cat tongue” and is for people who have low tolerance for hot food, which is prominent among the Japanese. The robot solves the issue where manually blowing on food to cool it down could get you some side eyes from the people around you. That’s because it’s considered unhygienic.
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Nékojita FuFu clings on to a cup or bowl and blows air to cool the food off. Yukai Engineering says the mini robot uses a special algorithm to imitate a person blowing the food, for maximum affect.
The other robot Mirumi is kind of like an owl or a sloth-like (?) mini yokai that mounts on a purse. While it doesn’t do anything useful like Nékojita FuFu, it can surprise people by turning its head toward them. It rotates its head in several ways, and does it using motion and proximity sensors. Pretty cool, right?
Image Credit: Yukai Engineering
The firm says it was “designed to re-create people’s joyful experiences of noticing a human baby as he/she tries to interact with them”.
As for the availability, Yukai Engineering could release the Nékojita FuFu in mid-2025 and will cost you $25. However, the date of release and price of Mirumi are still unknown. Although, we expect it to go for around the same price as Nékojita FuFu.
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- Movano is coming out with their new EvieAI coming to their smart rings.
- It is post-trained on 100,000 medical journals, including FDA-approved content cross-referenced from Harvard, UCLA, and Mayo Clinic.
- The AI chatbot achieves high accuracy rates and doesn’t provide answers to unknown topics.
Nearly every device at CES has AI labeled all over it, given its flexibility of use and marketability. But its incoherence and the room for hallucinations make it a poor choice for medical advice. So, companies stray away from it because of the major repercussions it can have on someone’s health and life. But smart ring maker Movano is coming out with their new health and wellness LLM called EvieAI, offering more reliable medical advice.
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So EvieAI will only be pulling its information from this data set reducing its chances of hallucinations. The results speak for themselves as the answers from the AI chatbot are 99% accurate. That’s also because EvieAI confirms whether your query tracks with the Movano’s training data. The AI will also follow industry-standard encryption methods. Since chats are deleted periodically, no one will be able to track them back to the users.
Movano’s CEO John Mastrototaro also mentioned that the AI doesn’t shy away from saying no. If you ask anything related to a topic it hasn’t been trained upon, “it’s not going to tell you because it doesn’t have any information about that” according to Mostratotaro. He further added, “I think that it’s okay to say no if you don’t know the answer to something,”
Movano has recently re-released their Evie Ring to customers which addresses feedback on sleep data and heart rate accuracy. The company has also received FDA clearance for the EvieMED ring which is aimed at remote monitoring and clinical trials of patients. The beta version of the EvieAI will be rolling out starting January 8th to current Evie Ring users in their companion app.
Movano is trying to do something that can change the way people perceive AI. Training their LLM on just medical journals will for sure improve the accuracy of results, and they are going to be better than other general AI models. However, even Doctors coincide with each other on the recent development of new techniques and technologies. So its accuracy and how correct it stands with its answers will be interesting to see.
With over 4 year of experience under the belt, I cover all facets of consumer tech, from smartphones to other consumer electronics, our favorite social media apps, as well as the growing realm of AI and LLMs. As an Apps and AI writer app Beebom, I provide my expertise in all these areas, weaving stories that help you get familiar with the tech around you. But you will find me playing NYT daily puzzles in my free time.
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