Yueban Dongli

Yueban Dongli is the company founded by Shibo to build Xiaoban, a consumer bipedal Companion Robots product. In 我遇到了第一个真正想买的陪伴机器人！｜对话世博：越伴动力创始人【公路播客】, the company is described as a roughly 25-person team, including about 15 full-time staff and 10 interns, moving quickly on a hardware, AI, and emotional interaction stack.

Product And Technical Position

• Builds around household companionship rather than manipulation, chores, or generic assistant functions.
• Uses Qwen and a small-parameter On Device Fast Slow Brain architecture to keep emotional responses and movements low-latency.
• Trains and tests interaction behavior with a Family World Simulator because real household companion-robot data is scarce before delivery.
• Treats soft materials, bipedal motion, non-human language, expressive eyes, and charging behavior as product decisions that support Robot Liveliness.

Connections

• Shibo — founder.
• Xiaoban — central product.
• Companion Robots, Emotional Interaction Models, and Embodied AI — categories the company sits within.
• Open Source AI Models — model ecosystem used in the product stack.