About this episode
Grace Brown discusses her mission to combat loneliness through the development of a social robot designed for the aging population.
Most humanoids are built to perform tasks. Grace Brown is building one that can authentically connect. As co-founder and CEO of Andromeda, Brown is on a mission to solve the loneliness epidemic with Abi, a social robot designed for the aging population. In this episode, Rana el Kaliouby sits down with Brown to talk about why physical AI needs emotional intelligence, how nonverbal cues make or break human-robot interactions, and the importance of designing robots people actually want in their lives. Learn more about Pioneers of AI: http://pioneersof.ai/ Follow Pioneers of AI on all channels: https://linktr.ee/pioneersofai See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
People in this episode
Host: Rana el Kaliouby
Guest: Grace Brown
Topics covered
- loneliness
- social robots
- emotional intelligence
- human-robot interaction
- aging population
Keywords
- robot
- loneliness epidemic
- emotional intelligence
- human-robot interaction
- social robot
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Andromeda
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