Formation 8 led its Series A round, and SV Angel founder David Lee was the company’s earliest angel investor. Seoul and Santa Monica - based start - up AKA Study has brought its flagship product , robotic language teacher robot , from the crowdfunding platform to market . The $ 900 prototype uses proprietary artificial intelligence to engage with and recognise users , identify gaps in vocabulary and suggest sentences to review , as well as working in conjunction with materials developed by educational publisher Gakken . It has gone on sale in Korea and the company hopes eventually to expand its uses beyond education . CEO Raymond Jung said it can become a service to users , while AKA Study plans to make its proprietary AI engines available to third - party developers .
Seoul and Santa Monica - based start - up AKA Study has brought its flagship product , robotic language teacher robot , from the crowdfunding platform to market . The $ 900 prototype uses proprietary artificial intelligence to engage with and recognise users , identify gaps in vocabulary and suggest sentences to review , as well as working in conjunction with materials developed by educational publisher Gakken . It has gone on sale in Korea and the company hopes eventually to expand its uses beyond education . CEO Raymond Jung said it can become a service to users , while AKA Study plans to make its proprietary AI engines available to third - party developers .