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Rokid stated it was investigating and would take action against violations per its user agreement.","occurredAt":"2026-05-27T00:00:00.000Z","reviewStatus":"unreviewed","modelId":"276543dd-bf1b-45df-bbdb-8979aad9d323","deploymentId":null,"companyId":"5280902f-696c-46e7-b43f-849336d6ceae","aliases":[],"collisionRisk":"none","reviewNote":null,"severity":"moderate","rootCauseCategory":null,"rootCauseDetail":null,"affectedUnitsCount":null,"affectedUnitsBasis":null,"remediationStatus":null,"regulatoryAction":"none","regulatoryBody":null,"propertyDamageEstimateUsd":null,"damageEstimateBasis":null,"bodilyInjurySeverity":null,"fatalityCount":null,"lossCostClass":null,"sourceQualityTier":null,"oshaRecordable":null,"oshaCaseNumber":null,"rootCauseDisclosed":null,"publicDisclosureDate":null,"insuranceClaimPublic":null,"createdAt":"2026-07-16T05:04:30.044Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-16T05:04:30.044Z","model":{"id":"276543dd-bf1b-45df-bbdb-8979aad9d323","companyId":"5280902f-696c-46e7-b43f-849336d6ceae","modelName":"Rokid Glasses","slug":"rokid-glasses","description":"Rokid, a Chinese augmented-reality and AI company founded by Misa Zhu, ships the Rokid Glasses, lightweight AI and AR glasses that pair a dual-eye Micro-LED display with a 12-megapixel camera and a voice AI assistant. At 49 grams, the glasses run a voice assistant powered by both GPT and Gemini, real-time translation across 89 online and 6 offline languages at under a second of latency, and a teleprompter, priced at about $599 internationally or 2,499 RMB in China, alongside a non-display audio-only AI Glasses Style at $299 from January 2026. The registry records it at commercial maturity, one of the strongest-verified commercial entities in this wave: mass production was shipping worldwide by December 2025, more than 200,000 display units had been delivered since pre-orders opened on September 1 with roughly 50,000 overseas, the product was the top-selling AI glasses in China for three consecutive months, a Kickstarter for the international push surpassed $4 million, and aggregate AI-glasses orders exceeded 300,000, causing supply bottlenecks, with a Bolon eyewear collaboration in November 2025 supporting mass-market China distribution. On AI substance the camera, voice assistant, cloud large-language-model integration with both GPT and Gemini, and on-device offline translation make AI the defining axis, though the heavy generative work is cloud-based and only translation has an offline mode, so on-device AI is partial rather than full, and the exact split of on-device versus cloud inference beyond translation is not fully specified.","formFactor":"wearable","industryVertical":null,"environment":null,"maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Rokid (Chinese AR/AI company; founder Misa Zhu) ships the Rokid Glasses at scale: mass-production worldwide by Dec 2025; 200,000+ display units delivered since pre-orders opened Sept 1 (~50k overseas), far exceeding plan. #1 in China AI-glasses sales for three consecutive months (CNBC); ~$4M Kickstarter for the international push; aggregate AI-glasses orders 300,000+ (supply bottlenecks). Bolon eyewear collaboration (Nov 2025) for mass-market China distribution."},{"label":"AI-substance: GENUINE","value":"Camera + voice assistant + cloud LLM (both GPT and Gemini) + on-device offline translation. AI is the defining axis. Note: heavy generative lifting is cloud-based; only translation has an offline/on-device mode, so 'on-device AI' is partial, not full."},{"label":"Maturity = commercial","value":"Shipping at scale (200k+ delivered), retail pricing, global availability. One of the strongest-verified commercial entities in this wave (the dispatch's 'large China pre-orders' is confirmed: 200k+ delivered, 300k+ aggregate orders)."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Exact split of on-device vs cloud inference beyond translation (not fully specified by Rokid)."}],"specs":"Rokid Glasses (announced 2024, shipping 2025): 49g, dual-eye Micro-LED display, 12MP camera, voice AI assistant (GPT + Gemini), real-time translation 89 online + 6 offline languages <1s, teleprompter. Pricing ~$599 international / 2,499 RMB China. Also an AI Glasses Style (non-display, audio-only, 38.5g, $299, Jan 2026). 200,000+ display units delivered (~50k overseas).","battery":"8 h","weight_kg":0.049,"formFactor":"wearable (lightweight AI + AR glasses: dual Micro-LED display + camera + voice AI assistant)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-rokid-targets-mass-market-with-new-bolon-ai-smart-glasses","title":"China's Rokid mass-market push; Bolon eyewear collab; 200k+ delivered","sourceName":"Yicai Global"},{"url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/ai-smart-glasses-china-rokid-virtual-screen-meta-ray-ban-display.html","title":"Rokid #1 in China AI-glasses sales 3 months running; 300k+ aggregate orders","sourceName":"CNBC"},{"url":"https://global.rokid.com/products/rokid-glasses","title":"Rokid Glasses (49g, Micro-LED, 12MP camera, GPT + Gemini AI, translation)","sourceName":"Rokid (official)"},{"url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rokid-surpasses-4-million-on-kickstarter","title":"Rokid surpasses $4M on Kickstarter; transitions to website pre-orders","sourceName":"Rokid (PR Newswire)"}],"aliases":["Rokid Glasses","Rokid AI Glasses"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"keyFacts":[{"label":"Weight","value":"49 grams"},{"label":"Camera","value":"12-megapixel"},{"label":"Display","value":"dual-eye Micro-LED"},{"label":"Price","value":"about $599 internationally or 2,499 RMB in China"},{"label":"Translation latency","value":"under a second"},{"label":"Translation languages","value":"89 online and 6 offline languages"},{"label":"Units delivered","value":"more than 200,000 display units"},{"label":"Aggregate orders","value":"exceeded 300,000"},{"label":"Kickstarter","value":"surpassed $4 million"}],"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:53:15.641Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-15T13:23:07.097Z","unitsInFieldClaimed":null,"unitsInFieldVerified":null,"unitsManufacturedClaimed":null,"unitsManufacturedVerified":null,"unitsAsOf":null,"unitsSource":null,"salesModel":null,"priceUndisclosedSince":null,"autonomyClass":null,"autonomyStatement":null,"autonomyStatementSource":null,"demoForensics":null,"exportControlClass":null,"minCommitment":null,"warrantyTerms":null,"serviceModel":null,"productionRateClaimed":null,"productionRateEvidenced":null,"teleopRatioDisclosed":null,"interventionRateDisclosed":null},"deployment":null,"company":{"id":"5280902f-696c-46e7-b43f-849336d6ceae","name":"Rokid","slug":"rokid","description":"Rokid is a Chinese AR and AI company founded in 2014 by Misa Zhu (Zhu Mingming), developing augmented reality smart glasses for consumer, enterprise, and accessibility markets. 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Rokid's product lineup includes the Rokid Glasses (full-function AI & AR glasses with display) and the Rokid Ai Glasses Style (display-free, 38.5g voice-centric AI glasses launched at CES 2026), which surpassed 15,000 units sold worldwide within its first month of availability.","status":"private","founded":2014,"hq":"Hangzhou, China","fundingTotal":null,"type":"both","reviewStatus":"reviewed","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByCompanyId":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-rokid-targets-mass-market-with-new-bolon-ai-smart-glasses","title":"China's Rokid mass-market push; Bolon eyewear collab; 200k+ delivered","sourceName":"Yicai Global"},{"url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/ai-smart-glasses-china-rokid-virtual-screen-meta-ray-ban-display.html","title":"Rokid #1 in China AI-glasses sales 3 months running; 300k+ aggregate orders","sourceName":"CNBC"},{"url":"https://global.rokid.com/products/rokid-glasses","title":"Rokid Glasses (49g, Micro-LED, 12MP camera, GPT + Gemini AI, translation)","sourceName":"Rokid (official)"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/22/chinas-ar-company-rokid-closes-110m-series-c-to-expand-globally/","label":"China's AR company Rokid closes $160M Series C to expand globally","title":"China's AR company Rokid closes $160M Series C to expand globally","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"TechCrunch"},{"url":"https://global.rokid.com/","label":"Rokid official website","title":"Rokid official website","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"Rokid (official)"},{"url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rokid-launches-the-worlds-first-open-ai-ecosystem-smart-glasses--ultra-light-prescription-first-and-built-to-work-with-chatgpt-qwen-deepseek-and-more-302654439.html","label":"Rokid Launches the World's First Open AI Ecosystem Smart Glasses","title":"Rokid Launches the World's First Open AI Ecosystem Smart Glasses","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"PR Newswire"}],"keyFacts":[{"label":"CEO","value":"Misa Zhu (Zhu Mingming)"},{"label":"Total funding","value":"$378M+ across multiple rounds (company-reported)"},{"label":"Series C","value":"$160M (March 2022)"},{"label":"Products","value":"Rokid Glasses, Rokid Ai Glasses Style, Rokid X-Craft"},{"label":"Developer community","value":"20,000+ registered XR developers"},{"label":"Awards","value":"CES Innovation Award (3 consecutive years), German iF Design Award (5 times)"},{"label":"Financial stage","value":"Growth (generating revenue from consumer product sales)"}],"aliases":["Rokid Corporation","Rokid Glasses"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"atsProvider":null,"atsSlug":null,"factoryLocations":null,"manufacturingCapacity":null,"orgType":null,"burnSignal":null,"litigationEvents":null,"insurancePostureDisclosed":null,"unitEconomicsDisclosed":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:53:14.875Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-16T05:04:12.989Z"},"derived":{"status":"active"},"sources":[{"id":"013f150c-5fe5-46cb-8109-0beeeeaa6c3f","incidentId":"a237b40e-22a3-4cbf-bf1f-cbd4b244a99e","url":"https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202606/1362956.shtml","label":"Photo of flight attendants taken with AI glasses found online, amplifying public concern over tech-aided covert filming","publishedAt":null,"notes":null,"title":"Photo of flight attendants taken with AI glasses found online, amplifying public concern over tech-aided covert filming","sourceName":"Global Times","mediaType":"article","videoId":null,"channel":null,"durationSec":null,"timestampSec":null,"createdAt":"2026-07-16T05:04:30.811Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-16T05:04:30.811Z"}],"responses":[],"statusEvents":[],"jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/incidents/rokid-covert-filming-2026","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/incidents/rokid-covert-filming-2026","headline":"Rokid glasses user posts covert photo of flight attendants, sparking privacy concerns over AI glasses covert filming","description":"A Rokid glasses user surnamed Yun discovered a post in the Rokid app's online community dated May 27, 2026 showing a covert photo of Spring Airlines flight attendants taken with the smart glasses. 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