The consumer-robotics graveyard is littered with well-funded American startups. Moxie, Jibo, Anki—all raised millions, then collapsed under cloud costs and thin margins.

Enter Miko, a Mumbai company selling AI companions to American kids. With Indian manufacturing cutting costs to one-fifth of US production and subscriptions driving recurring revenue, Miko has advantages its rivals never had. Yet it’s still losing money—120 crore rupees last year. Now, as the company hits 500,000 units in annual sales, it’s reaching the exact scale where others stumbled.

Can Miko’s India edge break the robotics curse, or will it become just another cautionary tale?

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