
At 19, Jacob Boyle was carrying military-grade robots into a college dorm. Today, the engineer behind MARCo Health is testing a more human question: what happens when a machine is designed to listen first?
Jacob Boyle graduated with $90 and a foam robot named MARCo. Seven years later it has talked with more than 15,000 people across 13 countries - and in a handful of cases, it called for help before things got worse.