Japanese startup founded by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro building avatar and generative-AI software (AVACOM, AVATRE) and humanoid robots.
AVITA, Inc. (AVITA株式会社) is a Japanese technology startup founded on 1 June 2021 by roboticist Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University). The company builds avatar and generative-AI software: the AVACOM customer-service platform, the AVATRE (アバトレ) AI training service, an avatar API, and the AVITA OS layer for avatars and robots. It also offers avatar production and a BPaaS model with "avatar workers." It partners with KDDI on a customer-service humanoid integrating the Gemini model. By August 2024 it had raised JPY 1.89B in total (Series A of JPY 1.37B). It is headquartered in the Meguro district of Tokyo.
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Roboticist, professor at Osaka University, creator of androids (Geminoid, Telenoid). Founded AVITA in 2021.
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