CES 2025: Nékojita Fu Fu, animal robot from Yukari Engineering

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TechCrunch, 1/6/2025

Set for release in Japan at some point in mid-2025, priced at ~$25.

Yukai Engineering’s parade of weird animal robots at CES 2025 continues with Nékojita FuFu. The little cat mounts to the side of a mug or bowl, blowing air to help cool it off. The Tokyo-based firm says the robot combines a fan and “special algorithm” — or a “Fu-ing System” — to blow at random strengths and intervals, like a person. 

The unique name is a combination of two distinct concepts. “FuFu” is an onomatopoeia for the sound we make when blowing on food. “Neko-jita” means “cat tongue.” This, in turn is a reference to people who have a low tolerance for hot food — a condition that apparently affects nearly half of the Japanese population, according to a survey.

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