# LrrK Kinematic Consumer Risk Bulletin **LRRK Watch / Open-Source Intelligence** — Consumer systems that sense, move, and act in homes and yards. **Issue type.** Monthly filing. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Collection cutoff | 30 November 2018 | | Platform | Quiet Systems | | Window | 1–30 November 2018 | | 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, UK OPSS, manufacturer recall pages, named newsrooms, dockets. | | Color | Message boards, consumer forums, and Reddit — annotated context only. Never Fact without a reputable primary. | ## Executive read ### BLUF Jibo Inc. leaves Massachusetts. Foreign Certificate of Withdrawal submitted 6 November, approved 14 November; last president Barry Kallander tells The Robot Report it was filed because “we sold the assets of the company.” The Robot Report names SQN Venture Partners as the IP buyer (June 20 security-interest date on the patent record). Units in the field are still said to have “full services.” This is not the March 2019 funeral. ### Key judgments 1. **[Assessment — High confidence]** The 14 November withdrawal is a dated corporate-death filing, not a server-kill notice. 2. **[Assessment — High confidence]** BBJ (28 November) and The Robot Report are the named newsrooms. The buy button is already gone on the opened BBJ copy. 3. **[Assessment — High confidence]** No November official consumer-robot recall was found. ### 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) --- ## 01. Jibo Inc. — Massachusetts withdrawal 14 November; assets sold; servers not yet declared dead *Event / publication dates: withdrawal submitted 6 November 2018, approved 14 November 2018; The Robot Report ~27 November; Boston Business Journal 28 November 2018* **Product class.** Social / desk companions **Verified record — [Fact — A1 / B1]** Jibo, Inc. (Delaware corporation doing business in Massachusetts) filed a Foreign Certificate of Withdrawal with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, submitted 6 November 2018, approved **14 November 2018**. The form surrenders authority to transact business in the commonwealth. Barry Kallander (Kallander Group; last president of Jibo) told The Robot Report the filing was made because “we sold the assets of the company.” The Robot Report, citing a former Jibo executive and patent legal-event records, names **SQN Venture Partners** / SQN Venture Income Fund; a security-interest transaction is dated **20 June 2018**. An anonymous source: “thousands of Jibo robots are still functioning in the field with full services.” [The Robot Report](https://www.therobotreport.com/jibo-assets-acquired-sqn/). Boston Business Journal, 28 November: withdrawal means Jibo can no longer do business in Massachusetts; website still up; blog last updated in May; **no option to buy** the $899 robot. [Boston Business Journal, 28 November](https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/11/28/boston-based-robot-startup-jibo-powers-down.html). IEEE Spectrum same cycle: new units unavailable for months; owner software updates as recently as August. **This is not a March 2019 server funeral and is not filed as one.** No November injury. No official recall. **Threat landscape.** A social robot whose maker has sold the IP and left the state, while field units still need the cloud. Physical harm none. The trust failure is now change-of-control of the personality. **Forum / community notes.** - none independently opened. **Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] Dated withdrawal plus a named asset buyer as reported. [Inference — Moderate confidence] “Full services” in November is a stay of execution, not a support-duration promise. [Uncertainty] Whether SQN will keep the cloud; unit count of “thousands.” **Opportunity.** A dated server-kill mail. That mail is 2019 and is not previewed as Fact. **LRRK relevance.** Control Fabric and Campaign (cloud identity after asset sale). Passport: successor with no inherited consumer promise. Watch: field Jibos. **Confidence.** High on the 14 November withdrawal date and Kallander quote. Moderate on SQN as buyer (executive + patent record; SQN silent). Low on remaining server SLA. --- ## Forward indicators 1. Any dated Jibo server-kill notice — **do not import March 2019 early**. 2. First US aibo deliveries (December). 3. Any 2018 official consumer-robot recall — none through November. 4. Any brand named on Pertisau. 5. Vector cloud terms after the October retail. > **Collection integrity.** One signal. **Killed:** Jibo March 2019 funeral as a 2018 Fact; Anki April 2019 shutdown; CPSC 20-115; Honda Miimo 2024; named robotic-mower fatality. Rethink Robotics October industrial close is out of class. No November CPSC/Health Canada/OPSS/Safety Gate consumer-robot recall found. 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