Werner Vogels

You know, if you're a young kid, a doctor is someone that is tall and, I don't know, dangerous or whatever you want to think.

But for example, there's this, the huggable robot is a small green thing with a nice snout and talks to the kid and whatever.

Kids with a huggable have no problem talking to a doctor.

Yeah, because they have their mate with them.

And so those kind of things I think are crucial for us as technologists to think about.

We see a problem, not necessarily a problem that is going to make us a ton of money, but we see a problem that is really important.

for people's psyche, for people's feelings, for loneliness.

Who wants to be lonely?

Nobody.

And if we can't do this through pure social interaction, what's the next best thing?

We have, or we, Amazon has Astro, but there's more robots like Astro.

And they'll just run, they'll go search for you through the house and ask you if you've taken your medicine.

Families or people that have these kind of robots, their medicine taking goes up 80%.

Why?

Because they're being continuously remembered.

And actually that way predates this is early on when we launched Alexa.

I got a story from a man who was suffering from early dementia.

And he knew what was coming.

Speaking of Alexa.

That's her.