PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For the last four years, a friendly little robot has been engaging, entertaining and educating children across Asia. Now, the bestselling Miko 2 robot is bringing the marvel of conversational, play-based learning to kids in North America for the first time--at a special limited time price of $299 guaranteed to make the holiday season even more magical. Miko 2 can be pre-ordered at Miko.ai in 3 attractive colors and will ship in December with guaranteed arrival for the holidays. Miko 2 is the brainchild of Miko, an advanced consumer robotics innovation lab home to global educators, engineers and psychologists. "As a father, Miko's mission is close to my heart. We hope to see children learn and grow with our product and are thrilled to bring it to North American families, especially after the interest and support that we've received in Asia," said CEO Sneh Vaswani.

Robots get a pretty bad rap in the press. Unflatteringly portrayed as the source of mass job losses, creepy humanoid interfaces, or racist customer service chatbots, robots are now also lumped in with a faceless entity otherwise known as AI--squillions of lines of invisible code, often working against human interests. This is a far cry from the affection elicited by other, more three-dimensional robots in our pop culture. R2-D2 is beloved by generations of Star Wars fans, with K-2SO considered a breakout star of the recent Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Robots inspired our imagination as far back as Frankenstein's Monster, as mirroring human qualities, although not quite--just a wide enough gap that we can make them outcasts, or our servants, or our militaristic disposables.