Developping purposes

We have main three purposes of the development of "CiRo" and "CiYa".

First of all, it is to be able to realize a precious scene with several cute girl robots, which was impossible with only one MaSiRo. The number of cute girl robots increases from one to three and everyone's "Kawaii! Yay!" has triple increased.

Nextly, it is the inheritance of the technology and functions developped with MaSiRo. CiRo and CiYa inherit almost all of the current features of MaSiRo, such as the holding hand and face recognition. And then, MaSiRo is a robot which we continue to develop with our policy of always being at the very frontline of our project and dynamically adding new features. As a result, we have a strong possibility that MaSiRo's holding hand function is going to have to be temporarily removed in order to make a maid robot café a reality. However, even if that situation happened, CiRo and CiYa would offer the holding hand experience instead of MaSiRo so that people who come to an event expecting to hold hands with MaSiRo are not disappointed. In this way, CiRo and CiYa also work actively as ones who inherit and keep of MaSiRo's functions.

Finally, we have purposes such as enabling parallel development, downsizing of their bodies and optimising the design but those are some expertise and technical stuff so it is OK if you just know that we have such stories.

Hand-holding following function

If you hold CiRo's right hand or CiYa's left hand and start walking, they slowly follow your side. The current MaSiRo can hold your hand with either her left or right hand but CiRo and CiYa cannot. It is a slightly older specification but you can start the hand-holding follow function just pulling their hand with your light action because an arm swinging function and posing function are included only on the opposite their arm.

And then, Finally, we made it possible holding both hands in same time, as shown in the picture on the right. That's exactly two blessings at once! Hallelujah!

Face recognition tracking function

It is equipped with the same face recognition tracking function as MaSiRo. The camera that controls sight vision has been moved from the headband on the top of the head to the robot ears on the side of the head. This change allows for more flexibility in hairstyles and hair decorations. It recognises the face of the nearest person in its field of vision and moves its eyes and neck to follow the gaze and the direction of the face.

In addition, as the number of robots increased to several, we have got to see "precious" pictures such as robots recognizing and following each other's faces, staring at each other, or standing side by side and tilting their heads at the same time.