What is MechaRobo?
The mechanism and concept of MechaRobo is based on Karakuri doll It is our experience of collaborative work with Karakuri doll master, Yorozuya Bunzo that went a long way to develop MechaRobo. (Click here to see moving image of our performance with Yorozuya Bunzo - "Onono-Tofu" and "Syakkyou") MechaRobo performs in accord with audio output. The mechanical appearance, one of MechaRobo's strong personalities, enables it to have flexible color just by changing costume and script, which also allows audience to fill their imagination. Thanks to this flexibility, MechaRobo can meet a wide variety of customers' demands. It can express various motions only using simple mechanism. It is a wonderful entertainer while it is an effective communicator who makes lasting impressions and promotes company and product awareness at a sales floor or a booth in the exhibition hall. Its representational power and acting talent make great contribution to marquee.

Karakuri Doll was Japanese antique mechanized doll developed as a popular entertainment in the eighteenth century and is still famous and popular. Mechanisms fitted inside make dolls move by themselves. Japan's equivalent of automata. It can be roughly divided into two types: puppets mounted on floats and those used in rooms.

Appearance
MechaRobo is designed to attract the gaze of people. Its mechanism and performance are eye-catching. It is possible to attach props and costume to MechaRobo. A bit of garnish and motion can change its color dramatically and the mechanical appearance allows the audience to fill their imagination.

With custom-made molding and costume

 

Types of MechaRobo

MechaRobo the greeter

captures customer's attention and leads them into stores, restaurants or anywhere you want to draw them in.

Game MechaRobo

Let's play a flag game with MechaRobo. It has the ability to pull in more customers at various events.

MechaRobo Theater

A comical talk show of a set of five MechaRobos

MechaRobo comic dialogue (Batteries)

A MechaRobo pair performs a funny talk show.

 

Selling Price

How can you make good use of MechaRobo?
At Storefronts or Exhibition
As being a wonderful entertainer, MechaRobo attracts customers who just pass by your storefront or booth at the exhibition. Moreover, it is an effective communicator who promotes your product. If you make a set of several MechaRobos, its presence and representational power will be more than double due to its funny appealing image.

At Museums or Science Museums
Learning science with pleasure! MechaRobo can be placed as a science exhibit. Due to its mechanical appearance, visitors can learn mechanism and a structure. Starting with exhibits under the theme of "Robot", "Structure of a machine",   MechaRobo can also respond to various kinds of exhibits. It will become an excellent guide of the exhibit if you change contents of MechaRobo talk and its costume in accordance with the theme. While listening to MechaRobo fun talk, some might have strong interests in the theme of the exhibit.

As a permanent exhibit, if you place MechaRobo at the entrance, it can be a guide of the museum.

 

Last but not least, depending on your idea, MechaRobo can be any kind of performer.