Kiko by Barycenter Lab
Born curious.Kiko learns you the way a child learns the world.
A small home robot that knows its owner, follows them, films short reels and talks.
- Runs on the robot
- Knows one owner
- Built in Berlin
Independent lab
Self-funded. Built by hand.
Barycenter Lab is funded by its three founders. Every part, tool and print so far comes from our own pockets. We do the design, the wiring, the code and the testing ourselves, at a desk in Berlin.
Read our storyCapabilities
What Kiko does
Owner recognition
Kiko learns one person's face and body at setup and tells that person apart from everyone else in the room.
Following
Kiko keeps a set distance behind its owner, through turns and past other people, and searches calmly when it loses them.
Voice and face
Kiko listens for its name, answers in a short sentence and shows what it is doing on a screen face.
Kiko's mind
Six things, all the time
Tap a part of the ring to see what it does. All six run on Kiko itself.
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Perceive
Cameras, microphones and touch tell Kiko what is around it.
Architecture
How it works
Sense
Cameras, microphones, touch pads and distance sensors take in the room.
Understand
Kiko finds the people around it, picks out its owner and hears its name.
Decide
Kiko chooses what to do next. Follow, search, answer, react or film.
Act
Wheels, face, voice and the camera mast carry it out.
Vision and behaviour run on a Jetson with ROS 2.
Privacy
Privacy by design
- Kiko stores only its owner's data, on the robot itself.
- Faces of other people are not saved.
- Nothing is sent to a server.
- A robot with a camera lives in your home. What it sees should stay in your home.
In the lab
Sealed for now
Things we are working on. They stay sealed until they are ready.
- 01SealedMoodsHow Kiko shows what it feels.Ask for early access
- 02SealedMemoryWhat Kiko remembers about you, and what it lets go.Ask for early access
- 03SealedLearning by doingKiko gets better by trying.Ask for early access
- 04SealedReelsShort clips, filmed by Kiko, when you ask.Ask for early access
- 05SealedGesturesPoint or wave, and Kiko understands.Ask for early access
- 06SealedThe Kiko appSet up Kiko and talk to it from your phone.Ask for early access
Barycenter
The lab
A barycenter is the point two bodies orbit together. Neither one is the centre. The centre is shared. That is how we think about people and robots in the same home.
Barycenter Lab is a robotics lab in Berlin, founded in 2026 by three engineers. Kiko is our first robot.
Build log
Follow the build
We build Kiko on a bench in Berlin and write down each step.
See the build logKiko gets a voice
The speaker played Kiko's first words.
Kiko has a face
The screen showed Kiko's eyes for the first time.
Vision on the GPU
Kiko's vision now runs on the Jetson's GPU.
