X-Origin AI Launches Its First AI Companion Robot Yonbo on Kickstarter—Meet Your Most Understanding Digital Life Partner for Lifelong Companionship.
LOS ANGELES, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — X-ORIGIN-AI specializes in the R&D of consumer-grade AI robotics, breaking the constraints of AI as a mere tool and advancing human-machine interaction from utility to emotional connection. Addressing the needs of users across all life stages—from children to adults and elderly people—it builds an intelligent companion ecosystem powered by personalized AI models, ensuring everyone has a digital partner that truly “understands them.”
Its first product, Yonbo—a smart AI companion robot designed for families with children—has completed development and entered mass production. This highly anticipated product officially launched on Kickstarter on May 22, 2025, already attracting widespread attention from industry observers and early tech adopters.
Behind X-Origin AI stands a world-class team with deep expertise in robotics and global operations. Founder and CEO Dr. Li Yunzhou, a robotics expert and seasoned entrepreneur, previously led his team to win China’s first international robot combat championship.
The Vision Behind Yonbo: Why X-Origin AI Is Rethinking the Future of AI Companionship
When asked why he founded X-Origin AI, Dr. Li emphasized the company’s clear mission: “To empower everyone with a digital partner that truly understands them.” It aims to advance AI-human symbiosis and pioneer a new wave of human-machine interaction.
According to Dr. Li, X-Origin AI has built a hardware technology framework for the AI era, spanning system data layers, terminal tech layers, and application layers, enabling more efficient creation of “intelligent” hardware products.
Current AI toys and desktop robots often offer homogenized functionalities, primarily relying on conversational large models. However, Dr. Li believes high-quality AI companionship requires emotional perception and personalized understanding to deliver genuine “emotional value.” Simply wrapping large models in hardware shells falls short of true “companionship.”
The future of AI hardware lies not in superficially integrating large language models (LLMs) into traditional devices but in redefining hardware from the ground up with intelligence—leveraging LLMs’ analytical power to enable hardware to “listen,” perceive emotions, and understand contexts, then translating these into real-world functionalities.
X-ORIGIN-AI employs an edge-side model control system to deliver personalized assistance, creating a system that interacts with LLMs. It processes the robot’s sensory data to form bionic memories that mimic human brain logic. Enhanced by personalized memory and visual-modal data, this allows LLMs to provide more precise interactions, while the robot’s physical expressions and movements enable higher-quality human-machine engagement.
Additionally, X-Origin AI’s self-developed, AI-driven operating system empowers developers to build diverse intelligent agents on the Yonbo development platform. Users will benefit from frequent OTA (over-the-air) updates, continuously expanding Yonbo’s capabilities.
What Sets Yonbo Apart in the World of AI Robotics?
In the growing field of companion robots, Yonbo redefines “companionship” through a groundbreaking blend of emotional intelligence, personalized interaction, cutting-edge multimodal AI, and diverse content—including storytelling, gaming, role-playing, interactive learning, and a functional upgrade platform.
Yonbo’s core experience lies in its natural, fluid conversational ability. Unlike robots limited to scripted dialogues, Yonbo allows interruptions and dynamic turn-taking, making interactions smoother and more human-like. It listens, adapts, and responds in real time, just like a caring companion.
Beyond that, Yonbo can “feel.” Its smart emotion-detection system senses user moods and adjusts its tone and behavior accordingly, offering comfort, encouragement, or lively engagement.
Yonbo’s true uniqueness stems from its long-term bionic memory. Each night, it summarizes key daily interactions and selectively retains important events, user preferences, and shared moments, deepening personalization over time. Powered by X-Origin AI’s proprietary Customized Lifelong Learning Model (CLLM), it tailors every interaction to individual personalities and needs.
With fully integrated multimodal capabilities, Yonbo seamlessly processes voice, text, and visual inputs. It recognizes objects, interprets facial expressions, engages in games and storytelling, and even understands children’s doodles—responding with empathy and emotional awareness.
Beyond companionship, Yonbo supports emotional well-being. Its built-in psychological assessment and guidance system helps users better understand and manage their emotions. By offering gentle insights and emotional support, Yonbo isn’t just a robot but a trusted daily ally.
Combining empathy, intelligence, and adaptability, Yonbo isn’t just catching up to the future of AI—it’s redefining what “companionship” means.
Summary of Revolutionary Features
- Multimodal AI: Integrates voice, text, and vision for holistic world understanding.
- Deep Interaction: Understands every sentence and responds with lifelike tone, gestures, and expressions.
- Long-Term Bionic Memory: Daily summaries key information like humans while filtering out useless information.
- Emotion Detection: Senses user moods and tailors responses for optimal support.
- Emotional Support: Built-in psychological assessment and guidance models to offer emotional support.
- Rich Content: Regular OTA upgrades deliver endless surprises.
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Looking Beyond Kickstarter: X-Origin AI’s Vision for the Future
After Yonbo’s Kickstarter launch on May 22, X-Origin AI will pursue an ambitious roadmap for growth and innovation. Dr. Li outlined three key priorities:
- Advance Core Tech: Strengthen edge-side multimodal AI’s analytical power and hardware feedback, optimizing emotional interaction and bionic memory.
- Global Expansion: Leverage Kickstarter momentum to enter major markets (especially the U.S. and Europe) via e-commerce and localized support.
- Developer Community Growth: By opening its OS interfaces, X-Origin invites developers to co-create a robust ecosystem integrating hardware, content, and services—unlocking new user experiences.
Looking ahead, X-Origin’s ambitions extend far beyond children’s robotics. With its personalized AI models, the company envisions a full-scenario product line for all ages, delivering a digital companion that truly “gets you.” Through these strategies, X-Origin AI is poised to lead a new wave in consumer AI robotics—redefining daily companionship and bringing emotionally intelligent machines closer to reality.
X-Origin Yonbo is now live on Kickstarter, with exclusive discounts for early backers:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xorigin/yonbo-smartest-home-robot-that-grows-with-your-family?ref=1nlvbw
