CLAIM HISTORYReviewed20 Jul 2026
Wakamaru reached limited commercial sale but never became the household robot platform Mitsubishi demonstrated
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries offered Wakamaru in a limited Japanese release after presenting it as a domestic communication robot. Production did not scale into a sustained consumer line, and later units mainly appeared in institutional demonstrations and research. A small number of delivered robots does not validate the broader household-market expectation surrounding the launch.