KIKO is a physical AI platform for education that transforms an entire classroom into an interactive learning space through projection and on-device intelligence. It delivers structured shared lessons, provides real-time tutoring support, and adapts to individual student needs while keeping teachers in control. The system operates locally without requiring cloud connectivity, ensuring lessons continue even in low-bandwidth environments.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional mass education was designed around scarcity, with too few teachers managing too many children in a single room at one pace. When a teacher is absent or a learner needs additional support, the lesson stops and individual progress stalls, creating gaps in understanding that compound over time.
Solution
KIKO provides a physical AI system that turns the entire classroom into an interactive interface, using projection to expand a single screen into a room-wide shared learning experience. The system hears the class, reasons locally on-device, and transforms explanations into visual content everyone can see, point to, and discuss. When a teacher is missing, KIKO delivers a structured shared lesson under the supervision of a local school adult; when one learner needs more help, it can slow down, translate, draw, repeat, and continue from where the lesson stopped. The platform operates without waiting for the cloud, keeping lessons active and responsive, while teachers retain full control over boundaries and decisions.
Target Audience
Primary customers are primary and secondary schools, particularly those in underserved or resource-constrained environments where teacher shortages and large class sizes limit individualized attention.
Features
- Room-scale projection system that expands a single source into an immersive, shared visual field for the entire class
- On-device AI processing that enables real-time reasoning and response without cloud dependency or latency
- Shared classroom intelligence that hears the class and adapts explanations to make ideas visible to all students
- Structured lesson delivery mode for teacher-absent scenarios, supervised by a local school adult
- Individual tutoring mode that slows down, translates, draws, repeats, and resumes from the learner's last point of understanding
- Teacher control interface that keeps human judgment central, allowing educators to set boundaries and decide next steps