Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories · retail humanoid
enon
A wheeled office and shop service robot with a head, two arms and a chest touchscreen that guided and escorted visitors, carried items and patrolled, finding its way with stored maps. The name stands for 'Exciting Nova On Network'.
- Price
- $54,000Cheaper than 25%
- Height
- 130 cmTaller than 19%
- Weight
- 50 kgHeavier than 34%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 3.0 km/hFaster than 22%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A discontinued humanoid from Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories.
Real-world use
Sold in Japan from September 2005 with first deliveries that November; used as a museum guide in Yugawara (2007), trialled in an Osaka mall (2010) and used for transport in data centres.
Timeline
- Released
- 2005-09
Maker
Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu LaboratoriesCompany · founded 1940 · Inagi, Tokyo, JapanWholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu (TYO: 6702) since December 2020; Frontech was previously listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (6945)
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
enon is taller than 19% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
enon is heavier than 34% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
enon is faster than 22% of the 122 other humanoids that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
enon costs less than 25% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: payload, joints, battery.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current humanoids.
- 270 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Enon (robot))
- 4 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
- 2 reported deployments
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- Actuators & motors
- Wheeled base, top speed 3 km/h; head 2 DoF, arms 5 DoF each.
- Hands
- 1 DoF per hand; each arm lifts up to 0.5 kg (company figure).
- Sensors & vision
- 6 cameras including wide-angle head cameras, 3 ultrasonic sensors, 3 proximity sensors, 4 microphones (Fujitsu, 2005).
- Compute
- Not published beyond low-power, high-speed 3D vision processing hardware.
- Battery & power
- Nickel-metal hydride battery with contactless charging; it can dock and charge itself. Runtime not published.
- Materials & build
- 130 cm tall, 56 cm shoulder width, 54 cm deep, about 50 kg; head and shoulder panels in citrus yellow, lily white or lavender blue.
- AI & software
- Japanese speech recognition and synthesis; autonomous navigation on a stored map with obstacle avoidance and no floor or wall markers; proprietary scripting language and middleware for interaction. Later versions estimated a visitor's gender and age by face recognition.
- Other details
- 10.5-inch chest touchscreen, 2 speakers, LED face and status lights; 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN for server data and remote operation; internal cargo bay holding up to 10 kg. Safety appraisal by the NPO Safety Engineering Laboratory was under way at launch. Tasks: guiding, escorting, carrying items and patrolling.
From the maker
enon is the only humanoid from Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $54,000About 6 million yen (about US$54,000) per AP; software extra
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Initial plan of 20-30 units (AP, 2005)
- Sold or delivered
- 10 orders at launch; about 6 million yen per robot with software extra, per AP (Fujitsu's own release did not publish a price)
- Where it is sold or used
- Japan (Fujitsu Frontech); assembly site not stated
- Customers and pilots
- Kyotaro Nishimura Museum, Yugawara (2007 visitor guide); an Osaka shopping mall trial (2010); data-centre transport and retail promotion uses (unnamed)
Where it works
2 reported deployments.
- Deployed
Kyotaro Nishimura Museum · Kyotaro Nishimura Museum · Yugawara · since 2007-09
Enon became a permanent visitor guide at the Kyotaro Nishimura Museum in Yugawara in 2007. Engadget
- Trial ended
Osaka shopping mall (unnamed) · Osaka · since 2010-01
Enon was tested for a day guiding shoppers in an Osaka mall using face recognition. TechCrunch
News
The latest 4, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- enon tries targeted shop tips in an Osaka mall
In a one-day trial, enon guessed shoppers' gender and age by camera and recommended stores to match.
TechCrunch - enon becomes a permanent museum guide
Fujitsu placed enon at mystery writer Kyotaro Nishimura's museum to greet visitors and lead tours.
Engadget - Fujitsu launches enon service robot
Fujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories began limited sales of enon in Japan, with shipments from November 2005.
Fujitsu - AP reports a 6 million yen price tag
The AP said enon cost about 6 million yen (about US$54,000), with 10 orders and a hoped-for mass-production price of 2 million yen.
Fox News (Associated Press)
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | enonFujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories |  EMIEWHitachiSame job: social · Both on wheels · Both past robots · Similar size |  RobotinhoUniversity of Freiburg and University of Bonn (team NimbRo, Sven Behnke)Same job: social · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  Nexi (MDS robot)MIT Media Lab Personal Robots Group (Cynthia Breazeal) with UMass Amherst and Meka RoboticsSame job: social · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2005-09-13 | 2005-03-15 | 2006-09 | 2008-04 |
| Status | Discontinued | Retired | Retired | Retired |
| Height | 130 cm | 130 cm | — | — |
| Weight | 50 kg | 70 kg | — | — |
| Joints | — | — | — | — |
| Speed | 3 km/h | 6 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | $54,000 | — | — | — |
Sources
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