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- Baby FuFu is a bladeless cooling fan that can be attached to a stroller or other objects.
- It’s ideal for keeping toddlers and kids cool without the dangers of traditional blade fans.
- The product will launch later this year at a price of range of $50-$60.
Parents know the importance of a good stroller fan for keeping little ones cool in hot weather, but most options on the market have blades that you don’t want toddlers, especially, trying to stick things into. Enter Baby FuFu from Tokyo-based robotics startup Yukai, a portable, bladeless fan designed for babies and toddlers to safely play with while staying cool, unveiled at CES 2026.
Baby FuFu looks like a plastic bear toy with an air stream coming out of its mouth. The blades are fully enclosed behind a slit plate, so even babies can safely handle it — even if they try to put a finger inside the bear’s mouth.
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Kids can either hold it to fan themselves, or parents can wrap the arms and legs around a stroller handle, allowing you to adjust it to blow on your child to keep them cool. Press a button and switch between three different airflow strengths.
Baby FuFu is an identical design to the company’s Nekojita FuFu, a little fan that cools your hot drink or food for you. The name comes from the “fu-fu” sound of blowing your breath on hot soup, for example. (The company calls both of these robots, though to me they’re more “fan” than “robot fan.”)
While there are other bladeless fans on the market, none are ones that babies and young kids can handle themselves in a toy-like form.
“Baby FuFu grew out of Nekojita FuFu fans’ feedback that their children love not only cooling their food with it but also playing with it, pretending to fan their faces and blow-dry their hair,” Yukai Engineering CEO Shunsuke Aoki said in a press release.
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“Many users also wanted FuFu made into a fan, so we created a robot that encourages toddlers to cool themselves with it to prevent heat stroke in hot weather, all the while having fun. Portable fans are now an essential summer item in many parts of the world, and we are very excited to introduce this adorable robot at CES 2026.”
Yukai plans to release Baby FuFu to the general market in mid-2026. The price has not yet been finalized, but is likely to be between $50-$60, according to the company.
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