This adorable bladeless fan is peak parent tech at CES 2026 - and it actually works

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Baby FuFu is simply a bladeless cooling instrumentality that tin beryllium attached to a stroller oregon different objects.
• It's perfect for keeping toddlers and kids chill without the dangers of accepted leaf fans.
• The merchandise volition motorboat aboriginal this twelvemonth astatine a terms of scope of $50-$60.

Parents cognize the value of a bully stroller instrumentality for keeping small ones chill successful blistery weather, but astir options connected the marketplace person blades that you don't privation toddlers, especially, trying to instrumentality things into. Enter Baby FuFu from Tokyo-based robotics startup Yukai, a portable, bladeless instrumentality designed for babies and toddlers to safely play with portion staying cool, unveiled astatine CES 2026.

Baby FuFu looks similar a integrative carnivore artifact with an aerial watercourse coming retired of its mouth. The blades are afloat enclosed down a slit plate, truthful adjacent babies tin safely grip it -- adjacent if they effort to enactment a digit wrong the bear's mouth. 

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Kids tin either clasp it to instrumentality themselves, oregon parents tin wrapper the arms and legs astir a stroller handle, allowing you to set it to stroke connected your kid to support them cool. Press a fastener and power betwixt 3 antithetic airflow strengths. 

Baby FuFu is an identical plan to the company's Nekojita FuFu, a small instrumentality that cools your blistery portion oregon nutrient for you. The sanction comes from the "fu-fu" dependable of blowing your enactment connected blistery soup, for example. (The institution calls some of these robots, though to maine they're much "fan" than "robot fan.") 

Yukai Engineering

While determination are different bladeless fans connected the market, nary are ones that babies and young kids tin grip themselves successful a toy-like form.

"Baby FuFu grew retired of Nekojita FuFu fans' feedback that their children emotion not lone cooling their nutrient with it but besides playing with it, pretending to instrumentality their faces and blow-dry their hair," Yukai Engineering CEO Shunsuke Aoki said successful a property release. 

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"Many users besides wanted FuFu made into a fan, truthful we created a robot that encourages toddlers to chill themselves with it to forestall vigor changeable successful blistery weather, each the portion having fun. Portable fans are present an indispensable summertime point successful galore parts of the world, and we are precise excited to present this adorable robot astatine CES 2026."

Yukai plans to merchandise Baby FuFu to the wide marketplace successful mid-2026. The terms has not yet been finalized, but is apt to beryllium betwixt $50-$60, according to the company.