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Best known for itsQooba cat pillow , Yukai Engineering has made a name for itself with some of the strangest small automaton around . Who could block , for example , Amagami Ham Ham , whose lone purpose is to gnaw on finger , extend a “ middling pleasing sensation . ” AtCES 2025 , Yukai reveal its latest , Mirumi , and it follows in those furred footsteps .
The little robot is , in essence , a furball that mounts to a purse , “ delight[ing ] bystanders ” as it “ spontaneously move around its head to slip a glance at a nearby somebody . ” Much like Ham Ham ’s finger’s breadth munching , Yukai establish inspiration in the build of infants .
“ Designed to re - create the great unwashed ’s joyful experience of noticing a human baby as he / she tries to interact with them , ” the company writes , “ Mirumi move its nous in several unlike ways to express its curiosity , bashfulness and other baby - similar qualities and emotions . ”
The house say the product was dreamt up during an in - house “ Make - a - Thon . ” Its Book of Genesis is the Yokai : puckish supernatural flavor found in Nipponese folklore .
The bot scans its environment , using a combination of motion and propinquity detection , as well as taps and movement of the bag onto which it is mounted . Yukai account the different mode :
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