The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Ropet AI: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions. 1 source back the record.
CategoryCompanion robots
Overview
Ropet AI (萌游智能) is a Beijing-based robotics company founded in 2022 that develops AI companion robot pets designed for emotional companionship. Its flagship product, Ropet KAMOMO, is a furry desktop robot pet with facial recognition, touch sensors, and a 39°C body temperature that simulates a living creature requiring care rather than conversation. The company targets urban professionals experiencing loneliness, with over 40 patents in multimodal perception and biological interaction design.
Reality check
Patents (company-claimed)
40+
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Product
Maker
CEO and lead designer
Co-founder
Series A1 (Sep 2025)
Kickstarter (Dec 2024)
Makuake (Aug 2025)
Launch
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Ropet AI on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Ropet AI's robots are operating, by place and type.
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- He Jiabin CEO and Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Zhou Yushu Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Zhou Yushucofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Ropet AI.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Ropet AI2 deployments
Recent coverage
Ropet AI in third-party press
Peer companies
- Enabot3 models
- Embodied2 models
- Groove X2 models
- Intuition Robotics2 models
- KEYi Technology2 models
- PARO Robots2 models
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names Ropet AI.
Robots and products (1)
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A12025-09-08
Investors: Beijing AI Industry Investment Fund (lead), FreesFund (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Ropet AI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A1 funding round
2025-09-08Series A1
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 16, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
Ropet KAMOMO at China, Asia
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
Ropet KAMOMO at United States
Sources (1)
- Ropet AI -- KAMOMO Companion Robot · https://ropetai.com
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Ropet AI.Peer companies
- Enabot3 models
- Embodied2 models
- Groove X2 models
- Intuition Robotics2 models
- KEYi Technology2 models
- PARO Robots2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Ropet AI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Voice-Led Fabrication Robots
Adorable Cyber-Pet Robots
Emotion Recognition Robot Pets
Ropet's AI Pets: How He Jiabin Is Redefining Companionship
Asia Tech Lens profiles founder He Jiabin's vision for AI pets that need care rather than conversation, and Ropet's A1 funding round.
AI Robotic Pet Company Ropet Pet Intelligence Secures Tens of Millions in Series A1 Financing
36Kr reports Ropet completed tens of millions of RMB in Series A1 financing led by Beijing AI Industry Investment Fund, with team veterans from ByteDance, Microsoft, Alibaba,…
Ropet secures new funding to develop robots that feel more like friends
Ropet closed a Series A1 funding round led by Beijing AI Industry Investment Fund with FreesFund participating, raising an eight-figure RMB sum.
HardTech Reads: Ropet aims to sell 20,000 units
Ropet, by Mengyou Intelligence, targets 20,000 unit sales with its AI robotic pet featuring proprietary Pet Brain model.
Ropet Your Next-Generation AI Robot Pet — Best Buy Canada
Ropet AI Comfort Companion Plush Robot available at Best Buy Canada, designed for gentle engagement and emotional support.
Can AI cure loneliness? These Asian companies think so
You’re Already Choosing AI Over Humans – Pets Are Next
Ropet: The AI Pet Robot Redefining Emotional Companionship with Advanced Features
Circuit Digest profiles Ropet's AI pet robot featuring facial recognition, emotion sensing, ChatGPT integration, and customizable design.
AI Emotional Support Robots
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/ropet-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/ropet-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/24519436-577c-4326-824b-26b30b3aa310
- Revision history: /companies/ropet-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Enabot3 models
- Embodied2 models
- Groove X2 models
- Intuition Robotics2 models
- KEYi Technology2 models
- PARO Robots2 models
Video
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Love in sight, AI inside. Powered by on-device AI computing at its core with multimodal perception across vision, hearing, touch, and gravity, Ropet is designed
Check out this interactive and fluffy robot! This smart toy uses some pretty cool robotics to respond to your touch and app controls. It's a great companion and
Check out this interactive and fluffy robot! This smart toy uses some pretty cool robotics to respond to your touch and app controls. It's a great companion and
In this video we compare Pophie and Ropet. Not to see which is the best just to look at their differences and similarities. I'll let you decide which one is bes
Which pet robot is better? Ropet the robot or Pophie the robot? In today's video, I'm gonna pin them both against each other in design, features, conversation a
I finally got my hands on the Ropet Robot Pet! This little pet robot has a bunch of features and to be honest, outside of what I had seen at CES a couple years
In this video we unbox, set up and have a look at the features for Ropet. I do have another Ropet but that is a beta testing robot that won't receive firmware u
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Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Ropet AI draws attention at the 66th percentile but verifies reality at the 29th percentile among companion_robot robots. Hype Gap +36.4, 4th widest among companion_robot robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 29, 2026