Meet the Team Building KOKO in Fremont, California

A robotics company in Fremont

Homebot One Inc is a robotics company in Fremont, California. It builds KOKO, a home robot that helps older adults with everyday life and keeps their families close. KOKO is designed in California and assembled in the USA.

The company says its work spans four areas at once: building the robot, testing it in real settings, bringing in clinical research, and taking it to market for families and care organizations.

The co-founders

Leo Li leads product and design. He previously worked at Agibot and is a robotics product builder with patents and award-winning design experience; the Kickstarter page lists Red Dot, IDEA, and MUSE Gold awards and training in industrial design and human-computer interaction at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Joey Wang, PhD, leads technology. He holds a PhD from NYU and previously worked on core AI for Tesla Optimus and at Cruise and Bosch, with expertise in production robotics and embedded AI. Adan Aispuro leads marketing; he previously worked at Amazon and in Defense Health Agency, health tech, and HCI research, and is a U.S. Army veteran.

Clinical guidance

Jay Uomoto, PhD, advises the team as a clinical neuropsychologist. He is a clinical instructor in UW Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has worked with the DOD TBI Center of Excellence, and brings more than 30 years of work spanning traumatic brain injury, cognitive rehabilitation, dementia, and assessment.

For a robot meant to help people with memory and daily routines, that background shapes how the team thinks about testing, safety, and what help is actually useful.

The wider team

Behind the founders is a growing team of engineers, designers, and operators in Fremont. The Kickstarter page says the engineering team brings experience from Meta, Tesla, and Rivian.

Homebot One Inc calls itself superintelligence-native: everyone on the team leads a team of ten AI agents. The company is hiring across hardware, world models, assembly, supply chain, marketing, and sales.

Why KOKO exists

The company’s story starts with a family. Leo Li’s grandfather lived with Alzheimer’s for nearly ten years. He forgot his medicine and misplaced things, but he never forgot his grandson, and when Leo moved away to study, he could not always be there.

KOKO grew from that experience and from the team’s earlier work on MyMemo, an AI memory assistant: when family cannot be there, something still can, to remember, to help, and to stay close.

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