MUSE

• Armo

  Armo

• Customer site

  2026-08-25 - Armo One began operating at one Foodcellar Market store in Long Island City for merchandise-cart transport. - pilot - Long Island City, Queens, New York

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• Operating use

  2026-04-09 - Armo was operating in 22 Belc stores as of 9 April 2026. - Armo at Belc

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Supply chain relationships

• Luxonis

  Inbound - Perception - MUSE vision system uses Luxonis vision hardware

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• 2024-06-11 - Equity and debt financing - $3.6M - MUSE raises JPY 570 million to scale Armo

  MUSE raised a total of JPY 570 million from eleven venture, corporate and financial institutions to accelerate deployment of its Armo store robot. - source: muse-gr.com

• 2022-10-01 - Seed - MUSE raises approximately JPY100M seed round

  MUSE raised approximately JPY100 million from Incubate Fund and XTech Ventures in an October 2022 seed round. - source: muse-gr.com

• Incubate Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-10-01
• XTech Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-10-01

• Yasutaka Kasagi - Founder, Representative Director & CEO - Leads MUSE and its retail-robotics strategy.
• Kazuhiro Ishikawa - Co-Founder and CTO - Leads product and technology development at MUSE.

Events

• 2026-08-25 - Deployment - MUSE begins first U.S. Armo deployment at Foodcellar Market

  Operations began in August 2026 at one Foodcellar Market location in Queens, New York. Armo is moving carts loaded with merchandise in a live grocery-store workflow. MUSE described the installation as an initial deployment with expansion dependent on the evaluation results.

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• 2026-07-28 - Deployment - MUSE and Welcia expand Armo retail pilot to five stores

  All five stores will use Armo promotion units with digital signage for product and campaign content. The existing Koto-Hirano store will continue using an imaging unit for autonomous shelf capture and stockout checks. The expanded pilot is scheduled from August 2026 through January 2027.

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• 2026-04-09 - Deployment - MUSE launches RoboPro across 22 Belc stores

  The 22 stores serve as operating sites for robot-delivered in-store promotions. MUSE opened participation to manufacturers, wholesalers and advertising agencies. The companies plan to measure and optimize sales impact across stores using robot-collected data.

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• 2026-02-17 - Deployment - MUSE, Cyberlinks and MrMax start an Armo shelf digital-twin pilot

  Armo autonomously patrols the sales floor and captures high-resolution shelf images with location data. Cyberlinks systems analyze product presence and shelf position. The pilot targets faster detection of stockouts and merchandising disorder.

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• 2025-02-05 - Deployment - Belc expands Armo deployment to ten stores

  Two stores had operated Armo since June 2024. Operations at the remaining eight stores were scheduled to begin from February 2025. Belc said Armo was primarily used for shelf-stocking work at that stage.

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• 2024-10-08 - Product Launch - MUSE launches the Armo One production model

  The production model improved reliability, durability and motion stability over the prototype. It added user-managed map maintenance, operating-status monitoring and physical start, stop and return-to-base controls. A pilot-test plan was offered ahead of official shipments.

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• 2024-06-11 - Funding - MUSE raises JPY 570 million to scale Armo

  Equity participants included Incubate Fund, XTech Ventures, a Global Brain-managed fund, Spiral Capital, Toshiba Tec and four other investors. Debt financing came from Japan Finance Corporation and Mizuho Bank. The company said the capital would accelerate Armo service deployment.

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• 2024-06-11 - Deployment - Belc begins regular Armo operation at two stores

  Belc had been validating in-store operation since December 2023. Regular operation began sequentially at two Saitama stores from June 2024. The disclosed workflows included shelf-stocking transport and broader in-store operations.

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• 2022-10-01 - Funding - MUSE raises approximately JPY100M seed round

  The financing followed MUSE's establishment in April 2022. MUSE used the capital for physical prototyping, customer trials and team expansion. The work supported development of Armo, its autonomous retail-store robot.

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• 2022-04-20 - Company Formation - MUSE is established in Tokyo

  MUSE was established in Tokyo on 20 April 2022 to develop and sell robots for retail stores. Yasutaka Kasagi founded the company after seven years commercializing ZMP's CarriRo logistics robots. The company built its initial product strategy around in-store transport and sales-floor operations.

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Relationships

• Cyberlinks Co., Ltd.

  Shelf Data And AI Integration Partner - Cyberlinks combines product images, planograms and AI recognition with Armo shelf capture for the MrMax pilot.

• MrMax Co., Ltd.

  Retail Pilot Customer - MUSE began a shelf digital-twin pilot using Armo at MrMax Yoshiizuka with Cyberlinks image-recognition and planogram systems.

• Belc Co., Ltd.

  Retail Deployment Customer - Belc deployed Armo in two stores in June 2024 and expanded the programme to ten stores in 2025.