Why Cylingo is moving into home robotics after building a 60 million-user app

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Cylingo is moving from a consumer emotional-companionship app into home robotics with Buboo, a companion robot designed to read household context and initiate interaction without a wake word. The company says the robot combines multimodal perception, long-term memory, and embodied action to support family use cases such as child companionship, emotional support for older adults, and lightweight visual recording. Cylingo positions Buboo as a physical extension of its Cece app, which has more than 60 million users and provides emotional support services. The company showcased Buboo at WAIC and argues that the market is shifting from toy-like robots to more intelligent, presence-oriented home agents.

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