Kokoro

About

Kokoro is a Japanese manufacturer of animatronic robots. Its Actroid work combines a human appearance with expressive face and body mechanics. The company accepts commissions for custom characters, including likenesses of specific people. Actroid movement uses Kokoro's pneumatic Air Servo system, covering larger gestures as well as subtle lip movements. Conversational functions depend on the external speech recognition and dialogue systems selected for a project. Kokoro also offers the Actroid-DER rental family. The official rental page presents three appearances, standard performance programmes and the option to commission event-specific speech and movements. Custom Actroid manufacture and DER rentals are distinct ways to work with the company; a human-shaped body does not itself establish walking capability.