Jan Liphardt
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So the nurses now have to remove lipstick off the head of the humanoid.
And so for many people that are starved of human interaction, they get so attached to the humanoid and their eyes light up and they laugh and they will kiss the head of the humanoid.
And so there's definitely something there.
And for most people in retirement homes here in the U.S., they haven't been visited by their family members in a year or more.
So it's a group of people that are really starved for any kind of interaction.
And some of them really seem to love the technology.
Ah, well, we have a little bit of a different take on humanoids.
We don't want them to be closed.
We don't want them to be these magic boxes that show up at your front door.
We think of them much more like cell phones that are open and where developers everywhere can add apps or skills that will allow your humanoids to do many more things very quickly.
And so it's very important to us that this technology is not like this magic black box.
but it's something that most of us understand, can engage with, and build for.