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      "company": "Vstone",
      "hq_country": "Japan",
      "website": "https://www.vstone.co.jp/english",
      "status": "active",
      "what_it_builds": "Vstone, an Osaka-based robotics maker, builds the Robovie-R series of life-size, humanoid-styled research robots that pair a wheeled mobile base with an articulated upper body (arms, head) for communication and human-robot-interaction research, plus smaller communication and educational robots.",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23346270/",
      "founded_year": "2000",
      "founded_source": "https://vstone.co.jp/english/about.html",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "none disclosed",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "No disclosed equity funding rounds were found for Vstone in company statements, Japanese/English press, or search results; the company appears to be self-funded/revenue-funded since its 2000 incorporation. No valuation has been reported.",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "Robovie-R4",
      "latest_model_year": "2022",
      "latest_model_source": "https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23346270/",
      "units_shipped": null,
      "units_shipped_source": null,
      "units_shipped_note": "Robovie-R4 is sold as a build-to-order research platform (base price JPY 4,950,000); no published cumulative or annual units-shipped/delivered figure was found.",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://vstone.co.jp/english/about.html",
    "https://www.vstone.co.jp/english",
    "https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23346270/",
    "https://robots.ros.org/robovie-r4/"
  ]
}