Robots that understand people.

BeEmotion gives robots a human-aware sense — reading faces, emotion and attention in real time, on-device. It powers Panasonic's NICOBO, a companion robot designed to be lived with, not commanded.

Robots are getting capable at tasks and still poor at people. A robot that can navigate a room but can't tell whether a person is confused, distressed or engaged will always feel mechanical — and, in shared spaces, can be unsafe. The missing layer is the ability to perceive and interpret human state.

Where it matters

Social & companion. Recognise and respond to the people a robot lives with — the human-aware layer behind companion robots like Panasonic's NICOBO.

Service & hospitality. Read attention and intent to time interactions and hand-offs.

Healthcare & assistive. Sense distress, pain cues or disengagement — including with communication barriers.

Cobots & industrial. Factor human attention and proximity into safe, responsive behaviour.

Why BeEmotion

Multimodal. Face, gaze, emotion, pose, gesture and voice fused into one real-time signal.

Private and trusted. Human data interpreted locally on the device; explainable outputs, private by design.

Proven in a shipping product. Powers Panasonic's NICOBO — its Makuake crowdfunding goal was met in six and a half hours.

Who it's for

Robot builders across social, service, healthcare and industrial platforms — from companion and social robots to service, healthcare and industrial cobots.