{"rows":[{"company":"Rotaku","hq_country":"United States","website":"https://rotaku.ai","status":"active","what_it_builds":"San Francisco Bay Area startup building low-cost developer humanoids: Domo (90 cm, 20 kg, 23 DoF, from $2,999) and Domo Plus (130 cm, 35 kg, 25 DoF, $9,899), meant as research and development platforms for developers, educators, researchers and smaller robotics teams working on teleoperation, manipulation, motion control and whole-body policy learning.","what_it_builds_source":"https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/rotaku-domo-affordable-humanoid-robot/","founded_year":"2025","founded_source":"https://mikekalil.com/blog/rotaku-domo-humanoid-robot/","funding_usd":null,"funding_basis":"none disclosed","funding_source":null,"funding_note":"No round with a stated amount found, so nothing summed. Excluded: a seed/early-stage investment from an unnamed U.S. early-stage fund, reported May 2026 with the amount undisclosed (https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/rotaku-secures-u-s-backing-for-humanoid-robots/ ; https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/rotaku-domo-affordable-humanoid-robot/ says the company 'isn't disclosing the fund name or seed amount'). Also excluded: an earlier MiraclePlus investment in the founder's 2023 AI-avatar project, which predates Rotaku and has no stated amount (https://kr-asia.com/rotakus-founder-thinks-humanoid-robots-need-character-to-stand-out). No valuation reported. Founded year: Mike Kalil's blog reports the legal entity ZenAI International Corp. was incorporated in Delaware in 2025. The company site rotaku.ai could not be opened from this machine (TLS handshake failure).","latest_funding_date":null,"valuation_usd":null,"latest_model":"Domo Plus","latest_model_year":"2026","latest_model_source":"https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/rotaku-domo-affordable-humanoid-robot/","units_shipped":null,"units_shipped_source":null,"units_shipped_note":"No published count of units delivered, sold or shipped. As of May 2026 Domo was in reservations ($99 deposit), with first production batches being prepared. An Oct 2026 KrAsia/36Kr interview says only that it 'has received numerous orders' (orders do not count). A further humanoid design shown in Oct 2026 has no published name, so Domo Plus is kept as the latest model.","as_of":"2026-11-03"}],"sources":["https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/rotaku-domo-affordable-humanoid-robot/","https://mikekalil.com/blog/rotaku-domo-humanoid-robot/","https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/05/26/rotaku-launches-domo-humanoid-robot-platform-starting-at-2999-for-developers/101878/","https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/rotaku-secures-u-s-backing-for-humanoid-robots/","https://kr-asia.com/rotakus-founder-thinks-humanoid-robots-need-character-to-stand-out"]}