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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Jibo sold a robot. People bought a friend.
Hardware · Ai · Consumer

Jibo sold a robot. People bought a friend.

The $899 tabletop companion could turn a greeting into an event. Its company discovered how much harder it was to turn affection into a lasting business.

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Legend
Jacob Boyle Quit Building for the Navy. Then He Gave a Robot a Softer Job.
Founder · Engineer · Executive

Jacob Boyle Quit Building for the Navy. Then He Gave a Robot a Softer Job.

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?

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Legend
Grace Brown Is Teaching Robots to Read the Room
Founder · Engineer · Executive

Grace Brown Is Teaching Robots to Read the Room

The Andromeda founder started with a student-built robot that could ask about her day. Now she is scaling a company around a harder engineering problem: creating machines people actually want in the room.

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