Your best AI Agent at the shop!
Your best AI Agent at the shop!
The Shop Assistant
Expand Market
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
A shopkeeper for every aisle
Price Check & Promotion
Customers scan any item for instant pricing, while Yaichi-kun surfaces related offers at the moment of purchase intent.
Store Insight
Anonymous footfall, shopper mix, and peak-hour data help head office understand each store without extra camera rollout.
Multilingual Self-Checkout
Customers can scan, ask, and tap to pay in their own language, reducing cashier queues during busy hours.
Product Q&A
Yaichi-kun answers product, stock, location, and store questions across multiple languages.
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
A shopkeeper for every aisle
Price Check & Promotion
Customers scan any item for instant pricing, while Yaichi-kun surfaces related offers at the moment of purchase intent.
Store Insight
Anonymous footfall, shopper mix, and peak-hour data help head office understand each store without extra camera rollout.
Multilingual Self-Checkout
Customers can scan, ask, and tap to pay in their own language, reducing cashier queues during busy hours.
Product Q&A
Yaichi-kun answers product, stock, location, and store questions across multiple languages.
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
A shopkeeper for every aisle
Price Check & Promotion
Customers scan any item for instant pricing, while Yaichi-kun surfaces related offers at the moment of purchase intent.
Store Insight
Anonymous footfall, shopper mix, and peak-hour data help head office understand each store without extra camera rollout.
Multilingual Self-Checkout
Customers can scan, ask, and tap to pay in their own language, reducing cashier queues during busy hours.
Product Q&A
Yaichi-kun answers product, stock, location, and store questions across multiple languages.
The lobby concierge for luggage & tax
Global delivery service
Guests weigh overweight luggage on Yaichi-kun, which prints a shipment label on the spot. They pack the hotel's delivery box, tap to pay, and hand it to the
front desk. Hand-off straight into the Yamato network — no counter, no queue.
Tax refund in the lobby
From 1 Nov 2026 tourists must pay the full 10% consumption tax and reclaim it at the airport. Yaichi-kun scans receipts, completes the J-TaxRefund registration and offers an instant in-lobby refund advance for a 10% service fee — so guests skip the airport queue entirely.
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
Refunds & shipping, anywhere on the floor
Stop it anywhere, any time
Shoppers flag down a roaming Yaichi-kun mid-mall to settle a tax refund or ship purchases home — no walking to a dedicated counter, no closing time.
One refund across many stores
Under the new unified rules, purchases combine more easily. Yaichi-kun consolidates a shopper's receipts from across the mall into a single refund and a single shipment.
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
How Global Parcel Delivery works with YAiCHi KUN
Choose the right box size and pack your items to the box.
Place the packed parcel within the marked measurement zone.
Tap the screen and step outside the zone to start automatic measurement.
Attach the printed label, then hand the parcel to the staff for shipment.
How Global Parcel Delivery works with YAiCHi KUN
Choose the right box size and pack your items to the box.
Place the packed parcel within the marked measurement zone.
Tap the screen and step outside the zone to start automatic measurement.
Attach the printed label, then hand the parcel to the staff for shipment.
BUILT-IN
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See YAiCHi KUN in action!
One AI Agent,
Many Forms
Yaichi-kun is built as an IP-agnostic AI service platform. The character, UI, voice, and physical shell can be adapted for different brands or licensed IPs, while the same service core powers scanning, checkout, label printing, multilingual assistance, advertising, and customer insight.
The hardware is the touchpoint. The platform is the product.
See YAiCHi KUN in action!
See YAiCHi KUN in action!
One AI Agent,
Many Forms
Yaichi-kun is built as an IP-agnostic AI service platform. The character, UI, voice, and physical shell can be adapted for different brands or licensed IPs, while the same service core powers scanning, checkout, label printing, multilingual assistance, advertising, and customer insight.
The hardware is the touchpoint. The platform is the product.
One AI Agent,
Many Forms
Yaichi-kun is built as an IP-agnostic AI service platform. The character, UI, voice, and physical shell can be adapted for different brands or licensed IPs, while the same service core powers scanning, checkout, label printing, multilingual assistance, advertising, and customer insight.
The hardware is the touchpoint. The platform is the product.
One AI Agent,
Many Forms
Yaichi-kun is built as an IP-agnostic AI service platform. The character, UI, voice, and physical shell can be adapted for different brands or licensed IPs, while the same service core powers scanning, checkout, label printing, multilingual assistance, advertising, and customer insight.
The hardware is the touchpoint. The platform is the product.
CURRENT MARKET
The price of a checkout lane is climbing — FAST!
The price of a checkout lane is climbing — FAST!
Japan is short on retail staff and raising the floor on what they cost. Every storefront hour is getting more expensive at the exact moment tourists demand more service in more languages.
Minimum wage, national weighted average
¥ per hour · the government's stated target is ¥1,500 by the late 2020s
0
600
1,100
1,500
¥1,055
¥1,121
FY2024
FY2025–26
Gov't target
¥1,500
A +42% climb from today's average to the target — before social-insurance loading.
Four pressures hitting every retailer at once
Four pressures hitting every retailer at once
¥1,121
/hr
2025-26 national minimum wage — the largest single-year jump on record
¥1,226
/hr
Tokyo minimum wage, the highest in Japan
+15
%
Employer social-insurance load added on top of every wage
∞ languages
Inbound tourists arriving faster than multilingual staff can be hired
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
We provide the same service.
Only about 2% of the cost.
We provide the same service.
Only about 2% of the cost.
A single staffed service position now runs close to ¥4 million a year once you load social insurance on top of the wage. Yaichi-kun does the front-of-house work for HK$300 (≈ ¥6,100) a month.
One service position, per year
One 8-hour shift daily · ¥1,200/hr +15% social insurance vs. one Yaichi-kun unit
¥3.97M
Human shift
¥0.073M
Yaichi-kun
54×
cheaper
Saving ≈ ¥3.9M per position, per year.
Customer wait time vs. monthly spend
Add service points to cut queues — staffed lanes vs. Yaichi-kun units
Staffed lanes
Yaichi-kun units
To hold queues under 2 minutes a staffed store spends ~¥1.3M/mo; Yaichi-kun, ~¥24k/mo.
Run your own numbers
Adjust the scenario for your estate — the savings update live.
Stores / locations
10
Service positions replaced, each
1
Hourly wage
1,200 ¥
2025–26 minimum: ¥1,023 (Okinawa) – ¥1,226 (Tokyo). A 15% employer social-
insurance load is added automatically.
Coverage per day
8 hrs
Yaichi-kun runs 24/7 regardless — this sets only the human comparison.
You'd save about
¥39.01M
per year vs. staffing the same positions.
Staffing, monthly
¥3.31M
Yaichi-kun, monthly
¥61K
Units deployed
10 × HK$300
That's a 98.2% cut in front-of-house staffing cost — and it widens as Japan's minimum wage rises toward ¥1,500.
YAiCHi KUN reduces the cost of every service point
Instead of adding another staffed shift, businesses can deploy Yaichi-kun to support price checks, customer questions, checkout, and label printing at a much lower monthly operating cost.
YAiCHi KUN reduces the cost of every service point
Instead of adding another staffed shift, businesses can deploy Yaichi-kun to support price checks, customer questions, checkout, and label printing at a much lower monthly operating cost.
YAiCHi KUN reduces the cost of every service point
Instead of adding another staffed shift, businesses can deploy Yaichi-kun to support price checks, customer questions, checkout, and label printing at a much lower monthly operating cost.
Experience Axonex AI & Robotics in Action
Experience Axonex AI & Robotics in Action
Discover how autonomous systems and intelligent platforms can integrate into your environment.
Your best AI Agent at the shop!
Your best AI Agent at the shop!
The Shop Assistant
Expand Market
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
A shopkeeper for every aisle
Price Check & Promotion
Customers scan any item for instant pricing, while Yaichi-kun surfaces related offers at the moment of purchase intent.
Store Insight
Anonymous footfall, shopper mix, and peak-hour data help head office understand each store without extra camera rollout.
Multilingual Self-Checkout
Customers can scan, ask, and tap to pay in their own language, reducing cashier queues during busy hours.
Product Q&A
Yaichi-kun answers product, stock, location, and store questions across multiple languages.
The lobby concierge for luggage & tax
Global delivery service
Guests weigh overweight luggage on Yaichi-kun, which prints a shipment label on the spot. They pack the hotel's delivery box, tap to pay, and hand it to the
front desk. Hand-off straight into the Yamato network — no counter, no queue.
Tax refund in the lobby
From 1 Nov 2026 tourists must pay the full 10% consumption tax and reclaim it at the airport. Yaichi-kun scans receipts, completes the J-TaxRefund registration and offers an instant in-lobby refund advance for a 10% service fee — so guests skip the airport queue entirely.
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
Refunds & shipping, anywhere on the floor
Stop it anywhere, any time
Shoppers flag down a roaming Yaichi-kun mid-mall to settle a tax refund or ship purchases home — no walking to a dedicated counter, no closing time.
One refund across many stores
Under the new unified rules, purchases combine more easily. Yaichi-kun consolidates a shopper's receipts from across the mall into a single refund and a single shipment.
Retail & Convenience Stores
Hotels
Shopping Malls
How Global Parcel Delivery works with YAiCHi KUN
Choose the right box size and pack your items to the box.
Place the packed parcel within the marked measurement zone.
Tap the screen and step outside the zone to start automatic measurement.
Attach the printed label, then hand the parcel to the staff for shipment.
BUILT-IN
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3
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5
6
Tablet
The interface customers approach: touch UI for price checks, self-checkout, tax refunds and shipping.
See YAiCHi KUN in action!
One AI Agent,
Many Forms
Yaichi-kun is built as an IP-agnostic AI service platform. The character, UI, voice, and physical shell can be adapted for different brands or licensed IPs, while the same service core powers scanning, checkout, label printing, multilingual assistance, advertising, and customer insight.
The hardware is the touchpoint. The platform is the product.
See YAiCHi KUN in action!
One AI Agent,
Many Forms
Yaichi-kun is built as an IP-agnostic AI service platform. The character, UI, voice, and physical shell can be adapted for different brands or licensed IPs, while the same service core powers scanning, checkout, label printing, multilingual assistance, advertising, and customer insight.
The hardware is the touchpoint. The platform is the product.
CURRENT MARKET
The price of a checkout lane is climbing — FAST!
Japan is short on retail staff and raising the floor on what they cost. Every storefront hour is getting more expensive at the exact moment tourists demand more service in more languages.
Minimum wage, national weighted average
¥ per hour · the government’s stated target is ¥1,500 by the late 2020s
0
600
1,100
1,500
¥1,055
¥1,121
FY2024
FY2025–26
Gov't target
¥1,500
A +42% climb from today’s average to the target — before social-insurance
loading.
Four pressures hitting every retailer at once
¥1,121
/hr
2025-26 national minimum wage — the largest single-year jump on record
¥1,226
/hr
Tokyo minimum wage, the highest in Japan
+15
%
Employer social-insurance load added on top of every wage
∞ languages
Inbound tourists arriving faster than multilingual staff can be hired
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
We provide the same service.
Only about 2% of the cost.
A single staffed service position now runs close to ¥4 million a year once you load social insurance on top of the wage. Yaichi-kun does the front-of-house work for HK$300 (≈ ¥6,100) a month.
One service position, per year
One 8-hour shift daily · ¥1,200/hr +15% social insurance vs. one Yaichi-kun unit
¥3.97M
Human shift
¥0.073M
Yaichi-kun
54×
cheaper
Saving ≈ ¥3.9M per position, per year.
Customer wait time vs. monthly spend
Add service points to cut queues — staffed lanes vs. Yaichi-kun units
Staffed lanes
Yaichi-kun units
To hold queues under 2 minutes a staffed store spends ~¥1.3M/mo; Yaichi-kun, ~¥24k/mo.
Run your own numbers
Adjust the scenario for your estate — the savings update live.
Stores / locations
10
Service positions replaced, each
1
Hourly wage
1,200 ¥
2025–26 minimum: ¥1,023 (Okinawa) – ¥1,226 (Tokyo). A 15% employer social-insurance load is added automatically.
Coverage per day
8 hrs
Yaichi-kun runs 24/7 regardless — this sets only the human comparison.
You'd save about
¥39.01M
per year vs. staffing the same positions.
Staffing, monthly
¥3.31M
Yaichi-kun, monthly
¥61K
Units deployed
10 × HK$300
That’s a 98.2% cut in front-of-house staffing cost — and it widens as Japan’s minimum wage rises toward ¥1,500.
YAiCHi KUN reduces the cost of every service point
Instead of adding another staffed shift, businesses can deploy Yaichi-kun to support price checks, customer questions, checkout, and label printing at a much lower monthly operating cost.
Experience Axonex AI & Robotics in Action
Discover how autonomous systems and intelligent platforms can integrate into your environment.