

There are baby monitors that can help you keep an eye on the baby, but they don’t really give you any alerts. When a baby’s sleeping and their parents need to go and do something else, they constantly worry about what’s going on. Once the surveys came back, we started analysing the problems to see what could be solved with AI technology, and from there, we narrowed it down to the sleeping problem. What were the biggest problems you found? This seemed to be a good subject to tackle, so from there we started to send out surveys to newborn parents to ask them about their biggest concerns. Through that process, she realised that there were a lot of problems for new parents that are not being solved by current technology. She couldn’t even close her eyes without fearing that her baby’s face was covered. Every time she saw a bib on her baby’s face, she freaked out. About 4 or 5 months in, she was having trouble sleeping at night, checking up on the baby and making sure things were okay. At that time, one of our founders, Joanna, had just had her baby. The idea for Cubo started when a group of engineers and parents teamed up to create a startup. We sat down with CSO Brian Lin to discuss how Cubo Ai is helping to protect infants across the globe. Following the success of their pilot tests with over 6000 parents in 2017, the Taiwanese startup launched globally on Indiegogo in 2019, quickly becoming the most-funded baby monitor in crowdfunding history.

When Cubo Ai co-founder Joanna Lin finally fell pregnant following 6 IVF attempts, her happiness was palpable – so when she found her baby’s face accidentally covered by a bib, she found herself unable to sleep for months as she worried constantly about her child’s safety.Īfter experiencing the worries that newborn parents face first-hand, Joanna partnered with Dr Kenneth Yeh, a paediatrician, to design the Cubo Ai Smart Baby Monitor, a safety-focused baby monitor designed to proactively warn parents of dangerous situations. AI-powered baby monitor Cubo Ai aims to minimise these risks. Every year, about 3,500 babies in the US are lost to sleep-related deaths.
