Nowadays, it seems like all sorts of everyday items feature AI technology, from household appliances and smart home devices to even something as simple as children’s toys. Many modern toys are starting to integrate AI to create more interactive, personalized, and engaging play experiences that adapt to a child’s behavior, motor skills, and interests. By integrating AI, these smart toys support learning, creativity, and problem-solving through features like voice interaction and educational feedback, helping children develop cognitive, social and emotional skills in a more connected way. Enter FoloToy, a toymaker company that recently introduced its new AI Sunflower Plush, Warmie, at CES 2026, a revolutionary AI-powered toy designed for children and families that brings together conversation, music, and movement in a physical, screen-free form.
WHO IS FOLOTOY?
FoloToy is a 3-year old toymaker startup based in Singapore that’s pioneering the toy industry with innovative AI toys that provide children with personalized, real-time interactions. The company specializes in designing AI-powered toys that don’t just talk — they listen, learn, and grow with each child, offering personalized companionship and playful learning through conversation.
FoloToy’s official logo
Founded in 2023 by a team of engineer-parents, FoloToy’s work is centered on combining the latest artificial intelligence technology, interactive hardware, and character-driven design to create intelligent, engaging, and safe AI toys that inspire creativity, foster learning, and promote meaningful connections.
As FoloToy’s founder and CEO, Larry Wang cleverly puts it “FoloToy is interested in understanding how AI can feel present in everyday family life, not as a screen or an app, but as something tangible and approachable. We’re focused on exploring a more natural and intuitive way for children to engage with AI, one that supports imagination, play, and shared moments at home.”
FoloToy’s founder and CEO, Larry Wang interacting with FoloToy’s new AI Sunflower Plush Warmie
FoloToy’s latest product from its lineup of AI toys for children is the FoloToy AI Sunflower Plush, called Warmie, which the company recently unveiled at CES 2026.
The company describes its AI Sunflower Plush as part of a broader effort to bring character-like experiences from cartoons into real family spaces. Instead of watching animated characters come alive on screens, families can interact with a toy that feels expressive and responsive in the physical world.
WHAT IS FOLOTOY’S AI SUNFLOWER PLUSH?
FoloToy’s AI Sunflower Plush Warmie is an AI-powered, screen-free, talking sunflower plush that’s designed to be a daily companion and guide for children ages 3 to 12. This is FoloToy’s most advanced AI toy model yet, as it expands AI interaction beyond voice alone, making it the world’s first expressive AI companion that seamlessly blends natural conversation with rhythmic physical expression.
FoloToy AI Sunflower Plush Warmie
The sunflower stands at 15cm tall, making it big enough for children to hug and hold in their arms. Plus, it’s also super soft, making it very comfortable for children to hug. The toy can sit on a table be placed beside your kid’s bed. And since it is made from durable, non-toxic materials, it is perfectly safe for younger children to play with it as well.
FoloToy AI Sunflower Plush Warmie
At its core, FoloToy’s AI Sunflower features a unified AI character that can engage in educational, multi-language dialogues, for which it currently supports conversations in English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. Its responses are adapted dynamically rather than using pre-recorded lines, making it a truly smart toy.
The toy works through physical feedback (by pressing its voice-capture button) and voice-only interactions, and is built with multi-layer content filtering, which ensures explicit interaction boundaries and prevents its native AI from assuming a caregiver role.
Not only that, but it can also sing and dance in real-time synchronization with the beat of any music it plays. Whenever music is playing, the sunflower responds to tempo and musical patterns across a variety of styles—including children’s songs, pop music, and classical tracks—through expressive, rhythmic movement. Its movements and vocals are dynamically generated to match the rhythm of your child’s music, rather than being pre-recorded—which is the case with many other brands of interactive children’s toys.
By combining sound and motion, the toy creates engaging, playful moments that invite children and families to interact together in everyday home settings.
The sunflower offers two expression modes, including Natural (for open-ended dialogue and conversations) and Music-Sync (for real-time, rhytmn-syncronized singing and dancing during music playback).
FoloToy’s AI Sunflower also boasts Wi-Fi connectivity, which enables it to receive seamless AI updates and interactions.
The toy is powered by a built-in battery, which can be recharged via USB-C.
Last but not least, it can also be paired with FoloToy’s App, which features a parental dashboard that enables parents to customize the toy’s operation and accompany their child’s development.
FoloToy App
FoloToy’s AI Sunflower Warmie can already be purchased online and goes for $79. You can order it from FoloToy’s official shopping page.
WHAT ARE FOLOTOY’S FUTURE PLANS FOR ITS LINE OF AI CHILDREN TOYS?
According to FoloToy’s CEO, Larry Wang, based on how AI technology has become a part of our daily lives, the company expects intelligent toys such as their own to become a vital part of every family’s daily AI ecosystem. As such, FoloToy plans on improving its current AI toys and further developing its product line within the next few years.
The company has also started collaborating with educational content creators and distributors in North America and Europe with the aim of bringing its AI toys to more family households with children.
For more information on FoloToy and its product line of companion AI Toys for children, visit FoloToy’s website.