Eye Candy Robotics

Eyecandy Robotics is building interactive robot characters , physical versions of animated personalities that can be picked up, talked to, and played with. The launch positions the company as an entertainment-first robotics studio rather than a utility or productivity play, aimed at consumers, toy buyers, and creators who want a tangible counterpart to the characters they already know from screens. The team brings robotics engineers, animators and designers together to turn animated characters into physical ones , which is the specific gap this launch is trying to fill as generative AI makes personality and voice cheap while physical embodiment still lags. The company was founded by Raghuvamsi Velagala, Mankaran Singh and Mohd Alqama Shaikh , and the product direction centers on physical AI characters, robots designed around entertainment and personal interaction rather than task automation. Under the hood, the platform integrates artificial intelligence and robotics to enable lifelike physical interactions with programmable behaviours, giving the characters both a persistent identity and the ability to respond in real time. This launch matters now because the company has moved from stealth into a public identity with early institutional backing in place. Eyecandy is backed by Founders, Inc. and was recently included in Lightspeed India's Ascends platform, alongside Sapien Labs, Celestial Aerospace and Sentience , signalling that investors are starting to treat consumer entertainment robotics as a category worth funding again. For operators watching the space, it is an early look at what a character-led, AI-native answer to the traditional toy and animatronics market could look like.