MUSE

MUSE builds one robot for the back and front of a shop. Armo restocks shelves, carries goods through the store for online grocery orders, spots out-of-stock items, checks displays, supports promotions and guides customers. On 5 November 2026 the Tokyo company announced 1.75 billion yen from 15 investors, led by ALPHA.

The data side

Armo records shelf images and sales floor conditions as it works. Those feed Eureka Platform, the cloud service where MUSE says store data is shared with stores and suppliers. For a retailer, that makes the data contract as much a part of the purchase as the machine.

Where it is running

The company says Armo is being rolled out at major Japanese retailers, and its site carries video titles about store work at Welcia and Belc. A US subsidiary, MUSE US, handles sales, deployment and maintenance there, and a release caption places a store deployment at Foodcellar Market in Long Island City, New York. No store count or price is published.

Who backs it

ALPHA led the November round as a new investor, joined by three other new names: Rakuten Capital, Gogin Capital and New Commerce Ventures. Incubate Fund, XTech Ventures, Spiral Capital, Toshiba Tec, Canal Ventures and YMFG Capital added to earlier stakes. That is ten of the 15 investors; the release does not name the other five. Toshiba Tec describes MUSE as a strategic partner.

What the money is for

MUSE plans mass production with outside manufacturing partners, stronger quality assurance and maintenance, sales and support in the United States, and more work on autonomous navigation, recognition and decision making. A retailer weighing it up should ask who services the machines locally and how production quality will be checked once it is outsourced.

Key facts

Founded: April 2022 Based in: Hatchobori, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan CEO: Yasutaka Kasagi Products: Armo, Eureka Platform Website: muse-gr.com