Jan Liphardt

Well, I have a humanoid at home and my kids... Casual.

Casual.

And my humanoid, my kids think that is totally normal because for them, they've seen that for literally two years now.

And however, when I talked to my mom, I sent my mom some videos of the humanoids here.

Iris.

You built it yourself?

No, this is hardware developed by someone else.

Of course, it's running the software I wrote.

Right.

Which is why I trust it, because I know exactly what's going on inside the humanoid.

But, yeah, I sent my mom some videos of the humanoids around here, and she said, Yanni, I'm shocked.

This is awesome.

So...

To your original point, what is the right form factor?

What's special about a humanoid is that they're by definition compatible with your home, a hospital, school, workplace, door handles, light switches, stairs.

So they can immediately be effective in all the infrastructure that humans have built for us.

Well, to some people this sounds dystopian and creepy.

Is it something you imagined that your parents would interact with robots?

But some of the companies building robots for memory care facilities like Andromeda in San Francisco and Australia, the stories they tell are heartbreaking.

where nurses now have to clean the head of the humanoid every evening because the patients will kiss the humanoid.