Iris Ohyama · working robot
JILBY
A business-use dust-collecting cleaning robot whose hardware and software were developed entirely in-house and built at Iris Ohyama's Dalian factory, with auto-charging, swappable batteries, quiet mode, paper dust bags and a 10-inch screen. It links to NTT West's AI robotics platform so staff can talk to an AI agent that plans routes and suggests extra cleaning.
- Price
- —Offered as robots-as-a-service; price not published.
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
JILBY is on the market today.
Real-world use
On sale from 1 Jul 2026; Iris Ohyama reports 25,000 service robots shipped to 7,000 companies across its range.
Maker
Iris OhyamaCompany · Sendai, JapanPublic attention
How much public attention JILBY gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It cleans mapped areas on its own and returns to charge itself.
- Battery & power
- Detachable battery with automatic charging
- AI & software
- Hardware and software developed fully in-house (by subsidiary Synkrobo, formerly Smile Robotics); linked to NTT West's AI robotics platform so staff can talk to an AI agent by text or voice, and the agent suggests cleaning routes and schedules from accumulated data; elevator, gate and automatic-door links planned
- Other details
- Commercial vacuum cleaning robot with normal, power and quiet modes, a 10-inch screen and easy-change paper dust bags.
From the maker
JILBY is the only machine from Iris Ohyama (developed by subsidiary Synkrobo, formerly Smile Robotics) in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedOffered as robots-as-a-service; price not published.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Where it is sold or used
- Made at Iris Ohyama's own factory in Dalian, China
- Customers and pilots
- Offered as robots-as-a-service in Japan from 1 July 2026; Iris Ohyama says its service robots are used by 7,000 companies with 25,000 units shipped
News
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- Iris Ohyama starts selling JILBY
JILBY went on sale on 1 July 2026 as an in-house-built cleaning robot sold as a service.
Kazumichi Moriyama (note)
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