elder care
Hospital logistics and patient engagement trials
Real-world demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Staff supervision; extent undisclosed
Research record R-038Pilot deployment
Miroki
By Enchanted Tools · France · announced January 2023
A fox-faced character robot balancing on a ball through Paris hospitals, from a co-creator of Pepper and NAO.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
Miroki (and sibling Miroka) are the Mirokai, character robots from Enchanted Tools, the Paris startup founded in 2021 by Jerome Monceaux, co-creator of NAO and Pepper at Aldebaran. His diagnosis of why social robots failed commercially was emotional, not technical: people never fell for them. The Mirokai answer is a fully art-directed creature, a fox-eared animated face on a body that glides balanced atop a sphere.
Underneath the storybook design is practical service robotics: grasping and carrying small loads, navigating corridors and delivering items, aimed at hospitals, hotels and events. Paris hospital trials (including within the AP-HP system) have tested Mirokai in logistics and patient-facing roles, and the company has courted healthcare partners across Europe and the Gulf.
Pricing is unpublished and units move through pilots and partnerships. Miroki is this database's clearest test of whether character design, rather than realism or utility, is what finally makes people welcome a robot.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Real-world demo
Paris hospital trials and event deployments; volumes unpublished
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
3 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Commercially deployed; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
entertainment
Character interaction at events and venues
Commercially deployedVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Operator modes available
conversation
Character conversation
Real-world demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- None in LLM mode
Hardware record.
- Height
- 123 cm
- Weight
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Locomotion
- Ball-balancing base (ballbot) for omnidirectional glide
- Payload
- About 3 kg carry (company figures)
- Runtime
- Service-shift scale
- Charging
- Dock
- Top speed
- Indoor gliding speeds
- Degrees of freedom
- Two arms with grippers; animated head
- Hands
- Grippers for trays and small items
- Face / expression
- Projected animated fox-like face with large expressive eyes
- Sensors
- Cameras, depth sensors, microphone array
Software record.
- AI platform
- Enchanted Tools stack with LLM conversation integrations
- Voice
- Character-voiced conversation in French and English
- Languages
- French, English
- Visual recognition
- Person and object recognition
- Memory
- Deployment configurable
- Processing
- Onboard plus cloud
- Autonomous abilities
- Autonomous navigation and delivery in trials
- Teleoperation
- Supported for events and exceptions
- Software updates
- Program updates
- Developer access
- Partner program
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Deployment-controlled
- Remote operation possible
- Yes
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Venue discretion
- Camera / microphone controls
- Operator controlled
- Data deletion
- Program governed
- Account required
- Enterprise
- Emergency stop
- E-stop; low-force design
- Children and pets
- Designed for public and pediatric settings under supervision
- Security updates
- Program-based
Open questions
Disputed or unverified.
- Deployment scale and commercial terms are unpublished; evidence rests on trials and appearances
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Public demonstration
Mirokai unveiled
- Pilot deployment
Hospital trials in Paris; healthcare partnerships
Source register
1 linked source.
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