# Jibo: company

Canonical ID: `ecbf2d29-a180-4a34-bef3-2bc960e8eb38`

## Key facts

- **Focus:** Social robotics
- **Robot:** Jibo family robot
- **Founder:** Founded by MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal
- **Backers:** Raised about $73M
- **Stage:** Wound down around 2019

- **Slug:** jibo
- **Status:** defunct (2019)
- **HQ:** Boston, MA

## Models

- [Jibo](/models/jibo-jibo.md) (companion_robot) (id: `02c7c287-cf83-4dd1-ab52-ad928dcabf9d`)

## Founders (1)

- [Cynthia Breazeal](/people/cynthia-breazeal.md) _no longer at company_

## Former / Previously (1)

- [Cynthia Breazeal](/people/cynthia-breazeal.md) founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (1)

1. https://spectrum.ieee.org/anki-jibo-and-kuri-what-we-can-learn-from-social-robotics-failures

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