Abby

“Abby is a social humanoid robot that goes into nursing homes and hospitals to socially interact and engage with residents, alleviating, like, loneliness and isolation.”

“She's only about like a 120 centimeters tall. So she's no taller than like an eight, nine year old child. She's anthropomorphic. So she's got arms and legs and, you know, but it's not for mechanical utility. It's more for her expression.”

“Even when she's turned off, like, people just anthropomorphized her, like, immediately. Like, before, you know, before we'd even, like, Started her, like, people will start having conversations with her, they start projecting what they think she's feeling, the…”

“I believe one day we will be building a like a disembodied Abby, we can name it something a little less bleak than that, but there will be a market for that”

“What I decided to do, and I don't think I've ever seen this done, but it just made sense to me, is we basically did a freelance to full-time arrangement, where Abby acted as the freelance or contracted CEO for StoryArb for a month, and I set the expectation up…”