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Friday 26 December 2025
VOVO Unveils NEO: Smart Toilet for Health, Safety, Comfort
VOVO Corporation announced the debut of the VOVO Smart Toilet "NEO", a breakthrough in smart home innovation that transforms the bathroom into a hub of health monitoring, family safety, and effortless comfort. Recognized as a CES 2026 Innovation Awards Honoree, NEO is the first toilet designed not only to clean but to quietly protect, support, and improve wellness for families, seniors, and individuals worldwide.Results appear instantly on a wall-mounted display, giving families real-time insights without requiring any extra steps. NEO also includes "Jindo the Dog," a friendly AI monitoring system that detects inactivity. If an older family member hasn’t used the toilet for more than 12 hours, NEO automatically sends an alert, adding a critical layer of safety for seniors living alone.Beyond health, NEO enhances independence and hygiene with its advanced bidet system, offering adjustable water pressure, customizable temperature, and gentle oscillating wash. For users with limited mobility, this means greater comfort and dignity in daily routines. The toilet’s touch-free automation - auto-lid opening, auto-flushing, and motion sensors - reduces contact at every step, while a wireless remote with intuitive LED indicators provides simple control. A heated seat, warm air dryer, eco mode, and low-water design further elevate the experience, combining sustainability with convenience.Despite its advanced features, NEO maintains a sleek, minimalist design that fits seamlessly into modern homes, hotels, and businesses. Toilets are among the most-used fixtures in any household, and NEO leverages this everyday moment to deliver meaningful health insights and peace of mind. For caregivers, families, and seniors, it offers reassurance. For builders and designers, it introduces a new standard in smart living.The VOVO Smart Toilet NEO will retail at $4,990 USD and will be showcased alongside VOVO's expanded lineup at CES 2026, including the VOVO GO 9 Portable Bidet, VOVO Airee Toilet Perfume, and VOVO Body Dryer. Visit  at CES 2026, January 6–9 at the Venetian Expo, Level 2, Halls A–D, Smart Home Booth #53159.
Friday 26 December 2025
DeCloak develops next-generation privacy-preserving AI decision platform for robotics
Service robots are moving quickly into healthcare, security, and public environments. Yet their increasing reliance on visual and spatial perception technologies has introduced a major hurdle: uploading raw visual data to the cloud now poses significant privacy and regulatory risks. European and U.S. regulators have recently designated mobile image collection as a high-risk activity, shifting the robotics industry from a "performance-driven" model to one fundamentally shaped by compliance requirements. This shift is redefining what it takes for robotic systems to scale safely and legally.To address these emerging requirements, DeCloak Intelligences has developed a portfolio of privacy-preserving AI systems that rearchitect how visual intelligence is handled at the edge. This includes DeCloakFace, designed for safeguarding personal biometric traits; DeCloakVision, tailored for medical and caregiving environments; and the company's third-generation core platform DeCloakBrain, developed specifically for autonomous robotics. DeCloakBrain functions as a generic AI decision-making engine for robotic autonomy, enabling spatial perception and task execution without relying on sensitive visual data, making it a foundational technology for future large-scale deployments across regulated environments.According to DeCloak President Dr. Yao-Tung Tsou, the company's core innovation lies in "privacy-by-design at the data source," ensuring that all sensor inputs - such as images and numerical data - undergo irreversible de-identification directly on edge devices at the moment of capture. This is achieved through multilayer techniques integrating differential privacy on edge hardware, image anonymization, spatial computing, global visual fusion, and federated learning. With its proprietary irreversible de-identification technology, DeCloakBrain maintains high-accuracy, low-latency decision-making without using original sensor data. The technology is already modularized across software and hardware, enabling rapid, secure deployment and seamless integration with AMRs, medical service robots, humanoids, and quadruped robots, while supporting scalability in both performance and functionality.From a compliance standpoint, DeCloakBrain aligns with stringent privacy regulations in the US and EU. This allows international customers to meet privacy and safety requirements for public spaces, medical applications, and defense-related use cases, mitigating cross-border deployment risks. Dr. Tsou emphasized that DeCloak's intelligent system is built upon years of accumulated datasets, patented de-identification models, VLM/VLA scenario libraries, and long-standing integration experience with global robotics supply chains. This foundation forms a difficult-to-replicate ecosystem for privacy-preserving intelligence, offering verifiable data protection and robust multi-device interoperability.DeCloak enters a pivotal scale-up year as Japan, US, and Europe markets take shapeIn its global expansion strategy, DeCloak identifies Japan as its fastest-moving commercialization market, with public-space monitoring and smart healthcare positioned as the initial priority sectors. The company's integrated systems for these applications have completed deep technical alignment and are now progressing into phased deployment.In the United States, market development is led by partners specializing in military and law-enforcement robotics. Their systems - already used in defense and policing scenarios - are undergoing military - and police-grade certification, targeting applications such as public-area patrol and security inspection. In Europe, where data and imaging regulations are among the world's strictest, DeCloak follows a software-licensing and system-integration model that enables local manufacturers to rapidly incorporate privacy-protection capabilities into existing hardware platforms.Looking ahead, DeCloak plans to scale shipments across Taiwan and Japan while supporting major clients in deploying smart healthcare, public-space security, and related applications. Japan is expected to become the company's first overseas market to reach meaningful revenue scale. In the United States, following nearly a year of testing DeCloakBrain hardware and software modules with military and law-enforcement partners, the company anticipates entering a "mass production and shipment" phase in 2026, covering use cases such as defense systems, public-area surveillance, and inspections in high-risk operational environments.Additionally, DeCloak's US partners will arrange on-site demonstrations for key customers during CES 2026, serving as a critical evaluation step prior to formal procurement. Europe will enter a full-scale development phase in 2026, centered on software licensing and system integration, enabling manufacturers in Poland, the UK, Germany, and other regions to meet stringent regulatory requirements while adopting solutions for smart healthcare, public-space monitoring, and data-privacy protection.President Dr. Yao-Tung Tsou emphasized that as DeCloak's multi-market strategy matures, the company is positioned at a crucial inflection point where technological readiness converges with commercial acceleration. He noted that 2026 will mark DeCloak's transition from "technology completed" to "global scale-up," with the company committed to expanding real-world deployments and advancing privacy-preserving intelligence and autonomous robotics onto the global stage - defining the next generation of AI-driven robotic intelligence standards.DeCloak's next-generation privacy-preserving AI universal decision platform for robotic systems. Credit: DeCloak
Wednesday 24 December 2025
Memorence AI Advances Instant Learning for Human-Machine Collaboration
As generative AI continues reshaping industries worldwide, enterprises are accelerating adoption across production, inspection, and automation workflows. Yet, as the era of human-machine collaboration and robotics unfolds, traditional AI systems still face two major deployment barriers.The first challenge is the lack of adaptability: when on-site conditions change - such as in visual inspection scenarios where production lines switch tasks, new defect types emerge, or inspection conditions shift - conventional AI models often require days or even weeks of retraining, falling short of real-time operational demands.The second challenge is catastrophic forgetting: when a model learns new information, it often loses accuracy on previously mastered tasks, a long-standing technical hurdle in deep learning.To address these pain points, Memorence AI developed its proprietary instant learning technology, inspired by the mechanisms of the human neocortex. The technology significantly shortens the time needed to adjust AI models while maintaining stability of prior knowledge. This provides a critical foundation for real-world human-machine collaboration. The company has secured invention patents in Taiwan, the United States, Japan, and China, laying the groundwork for its global expansion.Founder and CEO Pai-Heng Hsiao explained that the core principle is designed to support human-inspired capabilities such as perception, association, understanding, reasoning, and memory. For example, when an operator identifies a misjudgment and corrects it, the system can immediately incorporate the new information and apply it to subsequent tasks. This capability delivers rapid feedback and can be extended to support multi-modal knowledge applications.Focusing on Three Application Domains, Gaining Traction Among IPC VendorsMemorence.AI aims to bring AI from the cloud to the front line. Its end-to-end AI solution, Memorence Suite, is designed for large-scale visual inspection tasks and features a no-code architecture, allowing enterprises to deploy AI without relying on in-house engineers. One major industrial customer reduced manual inspection miss rates from 2-4% to below 0.1%, significantly improving quality and operational efficiency.Operagents targets high-variability environments in human–machine collaboration and future robotic systems. Leveraging instant learning, the solution responds quickly to changes in workflow, operating procedures, and recognition conditions. After deployment at a major manufacturer, operators were able to provide corrections that the system rapidly incorporated within a human-in-the-loop workflow, updating guidance instructions in real time, effectively reducing assembly errors and minimizing variation among different personnel.Memoragents provides a multi-modal knowledge query system that enables companies to continuously accumulate and update domain expertise on the shop floor. This allows employees to resolve technical issues quickly while mitigating gaps in institutional knowledge and expertise transfer.Together, the three solutions - from large-scale visual inspection to real-time operational assistance and multi-modal knowledge understanding - form a complete foundation for next-generation human-machine collaboration and robotics applications.Hsiao stated that Memorence AI's instant learning technology and AI solutions form a complementary advantage with the hardware offerings of IPC vendors. Customers can integrate IPC systems with Memorence AI products to enhance the applicability and competitiveness of their overall solutions. In 2025, the company partnered with a leading IPC manufacturer to participate in a major European trade show, leaving a strong impression on local industry players and laying a solid foundation for its market expansion in Europe.Advancing Toward CES2026 and Accelerating Global ExpansionWith support from Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA), Memorence AI is set to participate in CES2026 and has been named a CES Innovation Awards 2026 Honoree. Given the United States' strong foundation in advanced manufacturing, precision manufacturing, and large-scale automation - coupled with the rapid growth of human-machine collaboration, robotics, and the stringent quality and process requirements in aerospace and other high-spec sectors - Memorence AI will showcase the instant learning capabilities of Operagents in operational guidance and quality assurance applications. The company will also demonstrate its multimodal visual-and-text knowledge base solutions, enabling enterprises to continuously update professional knowledge and workflow procedures directly on-site.Hsiao noted that Taiwan's government has significantly increased support for startups in recent years, providing strong momentum for industry-wide development. He expressed deep appreciation for TTA's long-term assistance, particularly the opportunity to join the CES delegation, which has not only boosted Memorence AI's global visibility but also strengthened its confidence in expanding its international presence. Moving forward, Memorence AI will continue to advance AI and instant learning technologies, expand into additional modalities and interactive capabilities, and support global partners as they embrace a new era of human-machine collaboration and robotics-driven applications.Operagents offers operational guidance and adapts via instant learning with human oversight.Credit: TTA