Grace Brown
Founder & CEO, Andromeda. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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She created Abi, an emotionally expressive, AI-powered social humanoid robot designed to combat loneliness in aged care facilities and hospitals. Recognized on the Forbes Australia 30 Under 30 list, she launched Andromeda in 2022 to scale companion robotics.
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Everything Grace Brown said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Brown predicts as many humanoid robots as dogs and cats within a decade
“In the next decade, I believe that there's going to be as many humanoid robots as there's going to be dogs and cats on this planet.”
Brown: Social grace matters more for robot adoption than pure task utility
“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…”
Grace Brown: Skipping robot reliability fundamentals creates debt that appears at scale
“A lot of companies are rushing towards, like I said, like, the most frontier forefront tech of what they could be building, and that's really exciting because the industry is moving really fast, and there's lots of really awesome things being built that, you k…”
Brown: Founders need near-delusional confidence to convince others
“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…”
People converse with Andromeda's Abby robot even when it is powered off
“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…”
Grace Brown: A robot's capability is defined by purpose, not demos
“People assume the technical capability or the capability of a robot is dependent on the demo, but that's actually just not true at all. It's very much like, what is the robot built for? Who is it built for? And is it serving that purpose?”
Brown: California has the highest density of nursing homes in the US
“Like, California, San Francisco in particular, like, it has the highest density of
Nursing homes in the whole country.”
Brown: Andromeda's Abby has limbs designed for expression over mechanical utility
“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.”
Brown: Andromeda plans to eventually build a disembodied version of Abby
“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”
Brown: Andromeda ran free pilots for nearly 12 months before first paying customer
“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.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Grace's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 INNOVATORS & INVESTORSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Andromeda | 1 | 11 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Innovators & Investors → |