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Yucai Engineering launches "Children's Lifestyle Support (supervised by Tokyo Kasei University)," a new service to regulate children's lifestyle and life rhythm together with the family robot "BOCCO emo.

BOCCO emo" (BOCCO emo is a cute daily greeting for morning and evening, as well as words that encourage children to behave in ways that you want them to learn.

- The following is content from the press release -

Making the world more convenient with robotics. (Head office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Shunsuke Aoki), a company that plans and develops numerous communication robots and IoT products under the slogan "Make the world more yukai through robotics," will begin offering a new service called "Children's Lifestyle Support," which helps children adjust their lifestyle and daily rhythm together with the family robot "BOCCO emo. (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Shunsuke Aoki) will begin offering the new service, "Children's Lifestyle Support," which helps children develop good lifestyle habits and rhythms together with the family robot BOCCO emo from April 4, 2024. 

BOCCO emo" speaks twice a day, once in the morning and once at night, to encourage children to learn behaviors such as greeting, brushing teeth, changing clothes, eating, and using the toilet, in a cute, daily changing voice. The content of the messages is created under the supervision of Tokyo Kasei University and with the cooperation of the Tokyo Gas Urban Living Research Institute, which has expertise in energy conservation and other areas. 

In May, we also plan to start offering "What's Today?" for children to enjoy every day. will be offered in May. 

We hope that BOCCO emo's "Children's Lifestyle Habit Support" will help busy parents raise their children by providing an opportunity for children to engage in daily habits on their own initiative and in a fun way.

This service is available for BOCCO emo Wi-Fi and BOCCO emo LTE rental models.

Child Rearing Support Service "Children's Lifestyle Support

BOCCO emo" is a robot that allows even children to easily exchange voice messages with family members, and is equipped with functions such as voice notification of appointments and sensor-based monitoring. It can be used to call out to children when they are away from home or to let them know when it is time to get ready before going out in the morning.

Children's Lifestyle Habit Support" is a service in which "BOCCO emo" speaks twice a day, once in the morning and once at night, to help children adjust their lifestyle and daily rhythm. It is.

For the content of the speech, Tokyo Kasei University has classified the following seven categories of behaviors that we would like to encourage in children. The contents were created using expressions that are easy to convey to children, and are interwoven with miscellaneous information about seasons and events so that children will never get bored of them.

  1. Social norms: greetings, public manners, etc.
  2. Food education: greetings and manners related to meals, etc.
  3. Lifestyle and technology: related to sleeping, dressing and undressing, cleanliness, and toileting
  4. Energy-saving behavior: related to energy conservation and environmental considerations
  5. School related: manners in school life, etc.
  6. Interpersonal relationships: things to consider to build better relationships with others
  7. Self-support/self-actualization: Things that foster self-reliance and self-actualization, such as how to protect oneself in the event of a disaster, etc.

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Dr. Noriko Akaishi, Associate Professor, Tokyo Kasei University

The content of the "Children's Lifestyle Support" was developed by a group of experts in the fields of childcare, clothing, and food, based on questionnaires and literature to determine what the children themselves should know in order to regulate their lifestyle and daily rhythm, and the effectiveness of the program was verified through a demonstration test. Rather than simply conveying information, we included trivia and other information, and asked children to playfully ask questions such as "Do you know what '◯◯' is? We have also tried to motivate children by asking them playful questions such as, "Do you know what 'Fat' is? We hope that you and your child will enjoy listening to Emo-chan's voice and make use of it in your child-rearing.

Changes in interest in lifestyle and rhythm of life in the demonstration testnote (supplementary information) symbol

The results of a questionnaire survey of 49 boys and girls in the first and second grades of elementary school and their parents/guardians who used the lifestyle rhythm support contents (created by Tokyo Kasei University and Tokyo Gas Urban Living Institute) for about 40 days with the first model BOCCO.
Comments from Parents of Users
  • I'm glad he's starting to wake up properly in the mornings.
  • I like the miscellaneous information that I learn from it.
  • He said all the things my parents wanted to say in a neat way, and they learned a lot from him!
  • I really appreciate the notification at a certain time!
  • I can now go to school without my parents having to call for me to go at school time.

BOCCO emo Overview

BOCCO emo is an emotionally expressive family connection robot. It delivers a variety of information and acts as a member of the family. It can send and receive voice messages, remind you, deliver weather information, and more. The dedicated BOCCO emo app allows users to exchange messages within the family and check sensor responses; voices sent from BOCCO emo are sent to the smartphone as voice and text, and voices and text sent from the smartphone are notified by BOCCO emo speaking. In addition, the system can be linked to various services through API-based system integration to realize initiatives that are closer to consumers.

BOCCO emo official website
https://www.bocco.me

Yucai Engineering Online Store
https://store.ux-xu.com/products/bocco-emo

BOCCO emo LTE Rental Model Site
https://www.bocco.me/rental

BOCCO emo Corporate website
https://www.ux-xu.com/business

Company and University Information

About Tokyo Kasei University

Main faculties
1. Faculty of Home Economics
2. Faculty of Nutrition
3. Children's Faculty
4. Faculty of Humanities
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University Information 
Tokyo Kasei University
Representative: Toshiya Inoue, President
Establishment : 1881
Head office: 1-18-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo
WEB : https://www.tokyo-kasei.ac.jp/

About Tokyo Gas Co.

Main Business
1. Energy Solutions
2. Network
3. Overseas
4. Urban Business 

Corporate Information  
Tokyo Gas Co.
Representative: Shinichi Sasayama, President and Representative Director
Establishment : October 1885
Head Office: 1-5-20 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
WEB : https://www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/

About Yucai Engineering Corporation

Yucai Engineering supports the development of corporate products and services based on our strengths in communication design, robotics, and IoT, which we have cultivated through in-house product development. Our in-house services, from concept and product design, hardware design, application and software development, mass production support, and crowdfunding, enable us to quickly bring a company's ideas to life.

Main Business

1. Development of products and services on consignment, DX support
2. Service development using robot platforms
 Senior support services, childcare support services, CX improvement, etc.
3. In-house product development and sales
 Education series "kurikit" such as "Yukaina no ikibutsumono robot kit
 BOCCO emo, the family robot of the future that empathizes with you
 Petit Qoobo, a smaller, soothing tail cushion
 Sweet Bite Ham Ham," a baby-like robot with an addictive sensory experience
 Breathing cushion "fufuly
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Corporate Information

Yukai Engineering Inc.
Representative: Shunsuke Aoki, Representative Director
Establishment : October, 2011
Head Office: 101 Musashiya Sky Building, 16-11 Tomikucho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
WEB : https://www.ux-xu.com/

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