Andromeda

“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”

“How the robot shows up is actually going to be more important than whether it can do the task or not, because a robot that's going to make a mistake who can apologize for it will be far more socially accepted than a robot that is just performing the task and m…”

“I ended up running, like, free pilots and yeah, free, like, yeah, just free pilots with customers for, I'd say, nearly 12 months before I got my first paying customer.”

“If you're pitching this future, that this is what the future's going to look like, and this is what's going to happen, but then you're pitching that while you're doubting yourself, like, no one else is going to believe you that you're going to be able to do it…”