Vstone
About
About Vstone
Vstone develops robots and development platforms for education, research, communication and mobile automation. Its portfolio includes Sota and CommU tabletop communication robots, learning rovers, wheeled bases and custom robot-development services.
The company continues to update its mobile platforms with ROS 2, LiDAR, depth-camera, lifting and onboard-compute options. Product maturity ranges from commercial catalogue systems to announced prototypes, so availability is attached to each named model.
Team
- Nobuo Yamato - President and CEO - Co-founded Vstone and leads its robot, sensor and electronic-machine development and manufacturing business.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-30 - Product Launch - Vstone launches Light Rover E32 ROS 2 learning robot
The assembled platform includes LiDAR and supports ROS 2 Humble and Jazzy through micro-ROS. Its controller can be programmed with Arduino IDE, while frame data and sample code support customisation. The indoor robot measures 130 by 130 by 128.3 mm and weighs approximately 291 g excluding batteries.
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Profile notes
- Sota hardware can outlive the cloud services that supplied much of its conversational behaviour
reviewed 2026-07-20 - Vstone’s Sota was deployed through service packages that paired the physical robot with third-party cloud speech and dialogue systems. Changes or termination in those services can remove capabilities without changing the robot’s hardware status. A Sota unit remaining powered on is therefore not equivalent to the original service remaining available.
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Context tags
- Educational robotics supply stack - Stack Layer - Vstone offers educational robots, small humanoids and research platforms.
- Social and research robot platforms - Peer Group - Vstone supplies social, communication and research robots.
- Robotics research and education - Customer Environment - Robovie platforms are sold for communication research and robot development.
- Robotics education kits - Stack Layer - The portfolio includes programming robots, microcontrollers and servo components.