Yōkobo is a robot at the crossroads of a sensitive approach and a robotic trend that bridges the gap between humans. This concept puts people at the center. It is an object of sensitive presence that steps in order to cherish the relationship between people. It does not impose itself to propose an exclusive Human-Object relationship. Yōkobo is placed in the entrance of homes and reveals the presence of the other by expressing the last impermanent trace of the other’s passage. It expresses home hospitality and celebrates small moments of everyday life by its discreet presence that welcomes visitors and inhabitants of the house. The design has been imagined with the movement it does, but most of it, around the imaginary of robot to have a better integration in the home. Mixing circular shape (on the main pieces), angular (the edges), and details such as the opening of the vents, the user can get to grips with the design of Yōkobo. His removable trinket bowl combine with the openings bowl shape of the head make it more personal and question our relation with objects, and specially robots. As a theoretical contribution, Yōkobo is at the crossing of different concepts: behavioral objects, weak robotics, and slow technology.

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