Ein 95er-Doktorand der Chinese University of Hong Kong und Mitarbeiter von OPPO hat ein AI-getragenes Hardwaregerät entwickelt, das der rund-the-clock Emotionscoach für Benutzer werden soll | Premiere von Yingke

Autor | Huang Nan

Redakteur | Yuan Silai

Hard Kr has learned that Shenzhen Shijing Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shijing Technology") recently completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round was invested by Yuanhe Origin, and the financing funds will be mainly used for core technology R & D, product structure iteration and optimization, and small - batch mass production. The first product, Spiro, is planned to be launched on the North American independent website in April 2026 and go into mass production in June.

Shijing Technology was founded in July 2025. The founder and CEO, Zhao Zhihe, is a post - 95s serial entrepreneur. He graduated with a doctorate from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He once served as the CEO of Wuqi Technology, a smart wearable hardware company, and launched the world's first AI emotional pendant, Nuna. The co - founders have worked in companies such as DJI, Anker, and OPPO, and have many years of product implementation experience and mature market - oriented operation capabilities.

The smart wearable industry is experiencing a hidden generational change. In the past few years, function stacking has always been the mainstream narrative in the industry. More sensors, more accurate data, and more professional analysis were defaulted as the leading direction of product evolution. However, the cold reception of products like AI Pin in the market has exposed the deep - seated dilemma of this path: when hardware is defined as a "tool", its value is locked in specific usage scenarios. Without the context of the scenario, users are likely to lose the motivation to wear it continuously.

The high idle rate after the novelty wears off is forcing the industry to rethink the underlying logic of AI - enabled wearable hardware.

Zhao Zhihe summarizes the development trend of the AI end - game as "Context × Intelligence". In his view, the "Intelligence" side is being rapidly evolved by large - model manufacturers, while "Context" is the real barrier. It is far more than just a pile of raw data. Instead, it is about extracting a mental model of the person from continuous and aligned multi - modal data.

Projecting this logic into the field of wearable devices, the focus of competition is transformed into: who can make users willing to contribute unique and continuous modal data in the physical world in the long term. This also poses a choice that AI hardware entrepreneurs must answer from day one: should they prioritize getting more people to wear the device first, or focus on making a small number of people willing to wear it all the time?

Zhao Zhihe told Hard Kr, "The vast number of wearable hardware products in the market can generally be divided into two categories. One is goal - oriented, which solves specific problems and is used and then discarded. The other is relationship - oriented, which sells not functions but companionship."

Oura monitors physiological indicators, Whoop focuses on recovery management, and Garmin is dedicated to sports performance. These products all have clear delivery results, and users pay for the functional value. What Shijing Technology wants to do is a product that breaks the functional endpoint. "I want to create a product. It doesn't help you achieve a certain goal, but can accompany you around the clock, continuously witness, and care about your spiritual life," said Zhao Zhihe.

For this reason, in terms of form selection, Shijing Technology's first product, Spiro, avoids strongly - labeled categories such as rings, watches, and pendants, and instead creates an AI - enabled smart bracelet that combines a large - model emotional engine with jewelry craftsmanship.

AI - enabled smart bracelet Spiro (Source/Enterprise)

Zhao Zhihe told Hard Kr that in the jewelry consumption field, bracelets are one of the categories that are most easily worn unconsciously. "Users can own multiple bracelets and replace them at will according to their mood and outfit. It doesn't proclaim 'who I am', but naturally becomes a part of daily life." This also means a lower decision - making threshold and less psychological burden for users to wear, getting closer to Shijing Technology's goal of "never taking it off".

The product's functional logic is also restrained. Spiro is equipped with an IMU sensor and a microphone and has an all - day sound - recording function. The team has built a memory engine based on event segmentation. The user's experiences of the day will be divided into continuous "event streams", and the system will add annotations at each node. For example, from the moment the user enters a coffee shop, sits down, chats with friends, and then gets up and leaves, this is defined as a complete event.

Within the entire time window, information in dimensions such as ambient sound, intonation, conversation content (after transcription), pause length, and background noise will be extracted as structured data.

AI - enabled smart bracelet Spiro (Source/Enterprise)

"Our underlying structure is a memory architecture based on events and evidence," explained Zhao Zhihe. And data collection is just the foundation. The real product experience lies in the delivery method. These fine - grained multi - dimensional information, combined with the user's emotional profile formed by the context of past memories, will ultimately generate personalized emotional feedback.

Specifically on the Spiro app, it will present the user's daily life in three forms. The first is the AI diary. When the system recognizes a meaningful conversation or moment, it will organize it into a "highlight": it could be a diary card with an emotional tone, a piece of text helping the user review the day's ups and downs, or a short comment accurately pinpointing the user's mood of the day.

This is not a simple text summary, but a stylized re - creation based on the user's profile. It is more like adding a filter of emotion and narrative to life, rather than simply transcribing recordings or making mechanical summaries.

AI diary generated based on the user's daily life (Source/Enterprise)

The second is the interpersonal relationship energy map. The system will continuously analyze the user's interaction patterns with different objects, such as with whom the user has a more relaxed tone when chatting and with whom the user is likely to fall into silence after getting along. These insights will be visualized as a dynamic map, and users can see how their emotional bandwidth is allocated and which people truly form their support system.

The third form is more ceremonial and is also the source of Spiro's name - the fortune - turning dial. There is a rotatable mechanism on the hardware structure of its AI bracelet. When the user feels anxious and needs strength, they can turn the dial a full circle by hand, and an AI card will pop up on the mobile phone. The content on the card is not random chicken - soup text, but is generated based on the user's previous memory database, which is more in line with the user's current specific situation and psychological state.

It can be seen that behind these "non - functional" product philosophies is the complete expression of Spiro's technical architecture, which ultimately points to "emotional assets" - personal spiritual and emotional memories based on real history and non - transferable.

Multiple wearing and accompanying scenarios (Source/Enterprise)

Zhao Zhihe pointed out to Hard Kr that both OpenAI's Deep Research and Snapchat's AI social products are trying to build intelligent agents that understand users better. However, what Internet data can depict is only the behavior trajectory. To truly understand a person's emotional patterns, personality preferences, and interpersonal relationships, a longer - term physical - world context is needed.

"In essence, this is about building a mental model of a person. This part of the data is the most primitive, and it contains information about 'what kind of person you are'," said Zhao Zhihe. And in this process, AI hardware is also transforming from a "tool" to a "companion".

Currently, the smart wearable industry is moving from the early stage of function stacking to a deeper stage of value exploration. As the marginal novelty of hardware for users decreases, how to establish a psychological motivation for continuous wearing has become a topic that more and more product teams are thinking about. Starting from emotional companionship and personal memory modeling, Shijing Technology is deploying a differentiated product form and interaction logic, which is a new exploration direction for the industry beyond the tool - based route.