Brown: Social grace matters more for robot adoption than pure task utility
Grace Brown · Scaling Global Impact with Social Humanoids with Grace Brown of Andromeda | The Innovators & Investors Podcast · Mar 31, 2026 · at 13:50
Grace Brown, founder and CEO of humanoid robotics startup Andromeda, argues that social intelligence and mannerisms are more critical to humanoid robot acceptance than raw mechanical dexterity.
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“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 maybe steamrolling some people.”
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