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LrrK Kinematic Consumer Risk Bulletin

# LrrK Kinematic Consumer Risk Bulletin

**LRRK Watch / Open-Source Intelligence** — Consumer systems that sense, move, and act in homes and yards.

**Issue type.** Monthly KRCB (calendar reconstruction). LC-3 / Consumer. Not the weekday 24–48h poll.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection cutoff | 31 January 2017 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Window | 1–31 January 2017 |
| Data label | Open-source intelligence // LRRK analytic product // retrospective monthly filing |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. Retrospective reconstruction from contemporaneous public records. |
| Scope | Consumer kinematic electronics only (home, yard, companion, educational). |
| Classes in frame | Robot vacuums / mop combos · robotic lawn mowers · window-cleaning robots · pool-cleaning robots · robot pets / companion animals · social / desk companions · educational / programmable kits · robotic litter boxes · security / home patrol robots · consumer robotic arms · elder-care / assistive companions · kitchen / food-prep robots · toy / entertainment robots · niche outdoor / garden robots · emerging general-purpose or humanoid home robots |
| Spine | CPSC, Health Canada, EU Safety Gate (RAPEX), UK Trading Standards / RAPEX lane (OPSS not yet stood up), manufacturer recall pages, named newsrooms, dockets, SEC. |
| Color | Message boards, consumer forums, and Reddit — annotated context only. Never Fact without a reputable primary. |

## Executive read

### BLUF

January is a CES companion-camera month, not a recall month. Mayfield Robotics, a Bosch-owned startup, puts Kuri on a $100 US deposit for a $699 rolling home robot with an eye camera and a holiday-2017 ship target. No official consumer-robot safety action was located.

### Key judgments

1. **[Assessment — High confidence]** Kuri is a shipping-intent companion with a live-stream camera, not a concept-only keynote. Pre-order terms and the holiday ship target are contemporaneous and public.
2. **[Assessment — High confidence]** No CPSC, Health Canada, or RAPEX consumer-robot recall, owner warning, or numbered alert dated January 2017 was found.
3. **[Inference — Moderate confidence]** The CES social-robot cluster (Kuri, LG Hub, Bosch Mykie, Blue Frog Buddy) normalizes a face- and camera-bearing companion in the home before any of them has a support-duration disclosure.

### Analytic labels
- **Fact** — verified reporting or primary record
- **Assessment** — analytic judgment
- **Inference** — reasoned but not directly observed
- **Uncertainty** — unresolved information gap

### Source grades
- **A1** — authoritative primary record / directly confirmed
- **B1–B2** — generally reliable and corroborated
- **C3** — useful but requires caution (typical for forums)

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## 01. Mayfield Robotics puts Kuri on deposit — a rolling eye camera, holiday-2017 ship target

*Event / publication dates: 3 January 2017 (IEEE Spectrum; TechCrunch 06:00 PT; Mayfield / Bosch CES materials)*

**Product class.** Social / desk companions; security / home patrol (camera); robot pets / companion animals

**Verified record — [Fact — B1]** On 3 January 2017 Mayfield Robotics, “fully owned and funded by Bosch,” introduced Kuri at CES: about 20 inches / half a metre tall, about 14 lb / just over 6 kg, three-wheel holonomic base, four-microphone array, speakers, touch sensors, a laser-based array for obstacle detection / localization / navigation, and an HD camera behind one eye. TechCrunch: pre-orders open in the US on a **$100 deposit** toward **$699**, “target ship date of sometime during the holidays in 2017”; the camera is for checking rooms “while you’re away”; IFTTT is the stated smart-home path; voice is in, speech-back is not — chirps, lights, and eyes. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/03/home-robot-kuri-is-like-an-amazon-echo-designed-by-pixar/). IEEE Spectrum the same day: US $100 deposit toward $699, “delivery in time for the holidays in 2017”; camera, microphone array, speakers, touch sensors, “laser-based sensor array.” [IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/mayfield-robotics-announces-kuri-a-700-mobile-home-robot). Bosch/Mayfield product sheet: launch 3 January 2017, 06:00 PT; US-only pre-order at heykuri.com; “plans to ship the first Kuri robots for Holiday 2017.” [Bosch](https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/media/dam_images/pi9519/kuri_product_1sheet.pdf).

**Injuries/deaths:** none. This is a companion-trust / camera-in-the-home file, not an incident file.

**Threat landscape.** A mobile indoor camera marketed as a family member. The physical harm named this month is none. The trust boundary is remote live-stream plus an undefined support life on a prepaid holiday SKU. Cloud vs on-device image path is not specified in the opened pages beyond “processor on board” for voice/image (TechCrunch).

**Forum / community notes.**
- none found.

**Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] Kuri is the CES kinematic companion with a price, a deposit, and a dated ship target. [Inference — Moderate confidence] “Check in on your house… while you’re away” is a home-patrol claim on a rolling camera. [Uncertainty] Unit-volume of deposits and the on-device vs cloud video path are unpublished this month.

**Opportunity.** A privacy policy, FCC ID, or a dated first-ship notice would move this from CES deposit to a Passport-grade product.

**LRRK relevance.** Sense / Move / Act and Campaign (companion framing of a camera). Passport: $100 deposit as a trust instrument. Watch: holiday-2017 fulfillment.

**Confidence.** High on the 3 January announce, the $100 / $699 terms, and the holiday ship target as written. Moderate on capability beyond the demo. Low on deposit volume.

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## Forward indicators

1. Whether Kuri actually ships in the 2017 holiday window, and on what privacy terms.
2. Any CPSC, Health Canada, or RAPEX consumer-robot action in Q1 2017.
3. Dated Jibo backer fulfillment — still a promise, not a January Fact.
4. Whether Anki Cozmo remains a shipping SKU outside the US.
5. Any brand-named robotic-mower pediatric case.

> **Collection integrity.** One signal. CES cluster noted, not numbered: LG Hub (The Verge, 4 January — Alexa-powered swiveling face, “always aware of activities inside the home”; stationary, not a rolling SKU this month); Bosch Mykie and Blue Frog Buddy appear in the same-week social-robot set (IEEE Spectrum, 6 January). Those are CES items, not separate spine files. **Killed as Fact:** any January official consumer-robot recall (none located); Honda Miimo US intro (April); Jibo ship (autumn); iRobot maps-as-commodity (July); Pertisau (June 2018); Vector (October 2018); Jibo funeral (March 2019); Anki shutdown (April 2019). Roomba 690 / Braava jet product copy is not a safety or trust primary. Forum empty.


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