Knows its owner
已实现Kiko learns one person at setup and tells them apart from everyone else. Other faces are not saved.
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Kiko knows who it's for.
A small home robot built for one person. It knows its owner and keeps what it sees.
Most machines don't know who they're for.
A robot that follows people usually goes to whoever is closest. A camera at home needs someone behind it, or a server somewhere to work. Neither knows you.
Meet Kiko.
20 × 18 × 30 cm. A face that shows what it is thinking. A camera on a mast that rises when it is needed. Designed and built in Berlin.
One robot. One person.
Stays with you
已实现Kiko keeps a set distance behind its owner, past other people, and searches calmly when it loses them.
Answers to its name
已实现Say "Kiko". It answers in a short sentence and shows what it is doing on its face.
Keeps you in frame
测试中Raise the mast and Kiko can film you while you move.
Sense. Understand. Decide. Act. All inside Kiko.
Kiko sees in depth, listens and feels touch. It works out who is who, picks its next move and acts with wheels, voice, face and mast. All of it runs on a Jetson computer inside the robot, with ROS 2.
What Kiko sees stays on Kiko.
A robot with a camera lives in your home. What it sees should stay in your home.
- Only the owner's data, on the robot
- Other faces are not saved
- Nothing sent to a server
Built in the open.
What works, what is in testing and what comes next, with dates.
Bench photo to come
Bench photo to come
Bench photo to come
已实现
2026年10月15日
Knows its owner
2026年10月15日
Stays with you
2026年10月17日
Answers to its name
2026年10月16日
Shows what it is doing on a screen face
2026年10月15日
Sees in depth, vision on the GPU
2026年10月17日
Built and documented in the open
2026年10月17日
20 × 18 × 30 cm
2026年10月17日
Everything runs on the robot
测试中
2026年10月17日
Camera mast rises, turns a full circle, lowers
2026年10月17日
Keeps you in frame
2026年10月17日
Touch on head, left and right
2026年10月17日
About 70 minutes on one charge
2026年10月17日
Faces of other people are not saved
下一步
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Latest from the build log
Full build log2026年10月17日
Kiko gets a voice
Full build log2026年10月16日
Kiko has a face
Full build log2026年10月15日
Vision on the GPU
Full build log
The hard part.
Most robots that follow people track the nearest person. Kiko tracks one, and keeps doing so when they turn around, change a jacket or walk behind someone else.
Read the research notesThree engineers. One robot. Berlin.
A barycenter is the point two bodies orbit together. Neither is the centre. That is how we think about people and robots in one home.
Meet the team
Aryan Kumar Singh
研究员
Khasim Bin Saleh
研究员
Saurabh Kumar
研究员
Follow Kiko from the bench.
One email a month: what works, what broke, what is next.
Born curious.
