The product was praised by Elon Musk, and the AI robot company "TangibleFuture" completed millions of angel round financing. | HardcoreTech exclusively reports.

Author｜Huang Nan

Editor｜Yuan Silai

As a daily item with the highest usage frequency for people, have you ever imagined that one day it can not only be given a body, but also have the ability to have emotions and think, becoming your good partner? Nowadays, this idea has been realized by an intelligent hardware company.

HardcoreTech has learned that TangibleFuture Intelligent Hardware Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "TangibleFuture") has recently completed a several-million-yuan angel round of financing. This round is led by FutureX Capital, with senior industrial investors participating. This round of financing will mainly be used for hardware mass production and delivery, technological research and development, and global talent recruitment. Minerva Capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor for this round.

"TangibleFuture" is an intelligent hardware company focusing on interactive innovation. Since its establishment in 2022, the company has integrated robot hardware, multimodal interaction, and content narration to explore a new generation of entertainment and emotional experience for adults.

In the past two years, the AI companion industry has developed rapidly and is one of the fastest-growing tracks in the field of artificial intelligence. According to data from Precision Reports, the global companion robot market is estimated to be $9,203,110,000 in 2023, and the compound annual growth rate in the next five years is expected to reach 25.68%.

"TangibleFuture" believes that this rapid growth implies a subversive revolution of intelligent agents with active interaction capabilities in the three dimensions of perception, execution, and social power, over the old-era screen-end interaction. And the "weak robot" that provides emotional value will be the product form that first enters human life. The LOOI robot is its representative first product.

LOOI Robot

The most impressive thing about LOOI is the robot behavior engine called the "Bionic Behavior System". This engine aims to simulate the "perception - decision - execution" process of intelligent organisms with high cost performance, so that the behavioral performance of the robot approaches a real living organism, thereby bringing more emotional resonance to users.

In the future, as users interact with LOOI more, LOOI will observe and collect daily and regular data in life scenarios for self-learning and iteration, thereby completing the weight ratio of data in the rule engines of emotions, personality, expression, etc. Simply put, this means that LOOI will understand people more and more in daily interaction with them, and in this process, shape LOOIs with different personalities to become each person's unique LOOI partner.

Since February this year, the LOOI robot has been launched on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, during which it has received widespread attention and a like and interaction from Elon Musk. With a customer unit price of $129, the total number of 募集 exceeds 4,000 units, and the amount of 募集 exceeds the target by a hundred times. It is one of the few personal robot products that have been favored by global C-end consumers.

As of the press release, the LOOI robot has completed the delivery of the first batch of crowdfunding products and completed the spot delivery in the mainstream market this month.

LOOI Robot

Investor's Perspective:

FutureX stated that the rapid development of AI has given rise to new opportunities for AI hardware innovation, especially in the field of emotional value. Combining the intelligent capabilities of large models with machine entities truly gives robots vitality and personality. Emotional companion robots are gradually upgrading from a simple toy positioning to a real partner.

FutureX has long been concerned about the application of AI in the direction of emotional value. TangibleFuture's uniquely crafted LOOI, with its distinct character design, active interaction features, and personalized learning ability, is deeply loved by the younger generation, helping to alleviate the increasing sense of loneliness, the desire to talk, and the need for companionship. Looking forward to the future, we expect TangibleFuture, with the support of AI technology, to launch more products that give technology vitality and allow robot partners to bring deeper emotional value to society.