Petoi
Petoi robot cat Nybble was on the cover of Make Magazine in 2019.
Kai Mai
Kai has over 20 years of product management/development and engineering experience across the USA and China. He is the COO of Petoi, the maker of futuristic bionic robot pets for adults and kids. He was the VP of Engineering at ALO7, the largest digital English Language Teaching product and solutions provider in China with more than 10M registered users and more than 2,000 training school partners. He has a BS degree in EECS(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) from UC Berkeley and an MS degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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What inspired you to make this project?
Please see the quote from the interview with Petoi's founder Rongzhong Li(https://medium.com/authority-magazine/health-tech-rongzhong-li-on-how-petois-technology-can-make-an-important-impact-on-our-overall-5ad1c984ee30):
"I aim to develop personal companion robots to improve human well beings.
Many people love pets. But they may not have the space, environment, or resources to raise a pet. Pets are very good companions to humans.
We believe robots can fill in the role of being companions to humans. Robot pets can be particularly effective as they can re-assemble pet-like behaviors and interactivity. Cute pet-like robots look less intimating than other forms of robots.
My company Petoi has developed affordable and interactive lifelike robot dog Bittle and robot cat Nybble. They don’t specifically target human well beings space. But because they are open source and programmable, robotics application developers can develop human well beings related applications with our robots.
We vision a future where everyone can own a companion robot."