Yukai Engineering says crowdfunding will start this fall for Mirumi. Whether or not shoppers are willing to splurge hundreds, and in many cases, thousands on an in-home robot is another question.

Remember desk robots? Those tiny guys made for great gifts and fun additions to your workspace, but I think they lost their novelty relatively quickly, majorly because they were just for fun.

Crowdfunding provides people and businesses the opportunity to access capital from millions of smaller investors rather than relying on a handful of large, institutional investors. Investors can ...

Yukai Engineering says crowdfunding will start this fall for Mirumi. Tesla and others are readying their own robots Whether or not shoppers are willing to splurge hundreds, and in many cases ...