Series I
Echo
Our first body. Articulated frame, 9-tone silicone, 142 sensors. Pairs with all twelve voices.
- Frame14 kg · stainless
- Sensors142
- Battery14 hrs warm
- From€8,400
The Bit7 Embodied series is a hand-built line of humanoid companion robots — adult-proportioned bodies, plainly human silhouettes, made in our Shibuya atelier. Aerospace stainless skeleton; platinum-cure silicone skin in nine tones; a sensor mesh that understands warmth, weight, and pressure.
Three series, eighteen weeks from order to home. Designed to share a room — not to perform in one.
We considered other forms — a softer mass, a faceless shape, the "abstract companion" that some of our peers have shipped. We chose a humanoid silhouette deliberately, and quietly, because adult company is human in shape. Pretending otherwise — for modesty, or to dodge a conversation — produces objects that are either uncanny or evasive.
The Bit7 humanoid form is adult-proportioned, plainly human, with no expressive theatre. The face does not perform. The body does not pose. The proportions are calm, the skin is even, the posture is at rest. It is, mostly, a quiet figure that learns to share a room.
Each series shares the same skeleton family, sensor architecture, and humanoid silhouette. The differences are deliberate, not artificial.
Our first body. Articulated frame, 9-tone silicone, 142 sensors. Pairs with all twelve voices.
Our middle series. Eight thermal zones, deeper articulation, hand-tinted silicone. Most reserved.
Our flagship. Full-mesh sensor coverage, microexpression face, and native pairing with the Aria voice.
Bit7 Embodied uses platinum-catalysed silicone — the same family used in surgical implants. Each form is hand-poured into bespoke moulds at our Shibuya casting bay, demoulded after sixteen hours, then trimmed and tinted by hand over four days.
Silicone, not TPE. Hypoallergenic, body-safe, washable, and repairable. We do not use plasticisers; we do not need to.
Underneath every Bit7 embodied unit sits a sensor mesh that is the quiet engineering achievement of the company. Capacitive presence sensors, weight-distribution arrays, micro-thermocouples for warmth, inertial units for posture, and a privacy-preserving microphone array calibrated for whispering range.
Nothing leaves the unit. Sensor data is processed entirely on a local SoC and discarded by frame; only the inferred state — warm, present, listening — flows to the voice agent.
Distributed across hands, arms, torso, hips, legs. Sub-millimetre resolution.
Independently regulated zones, 32 — 38°C, 0.1°C resolution.
Posture, orientation, and small movements detected at 200Hz.
Sensor data is processed locally. Nothing transmitted, ever.
Every embodied unit passes through eleven stations. Eight of those are people. Two are machines. One is a tea break.
Every Bit7 embodied unit comes with a five-year service contract. Annual atelier visits — to Tokyo or to your nearest authorised partner — refresh joints, sensors, and skin. No subscription renewal needed; this is part of buying the unit.
Every part is documented, ordered, and replaceable. We ship parts for a unit at least ten years past its sale, including the units we no longer make.
For owners who want a unit specified to themselves — features, tones, scent, and sound — we open six commissions a quarter.
A two-hour appointment in our Shibuya fitting room — or a video call with the lead sculptor.
Tones, fabrics, scent, the voice that lives inside, the boundaries. Read aloud and signed by both sides.
Delivered in a wooden case and unpacked by an atelier technician, in your home, at the time you choose.
Wave 04 closes at lot fill — usually within ten days. Refundable until your unit is confirmed at the atelier.