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Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
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Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Key facts
- Hello Robot, founded in 2017 by CEO Aaron Edsinger, a former director of robotics at Google, and CTO Charlie Kemp, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is not building a foundation
- Stretch 4 costs an affordable-for-a-robot $30,000, which is a bit more than robots from Chinese manufacturers, although Edsinger notes that those often don’t come with sensors or software included
- Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area
- When Stretch’s batteries run down, lights around its “eyes” glow, “it looks angry,” Blaine Matulevich, an engineer at the company, jokes
Summary
Hello Robot released the fourth iteration of its home assistance robot, Stretch, last month. When Stretch’s batteries run down, lights around its “eyes” glow, “it looks angry,” Blaine Matulevich, an engineer at the company, jokes. Hello Robot, founded in 2017 by CEO Aaron Edsinger, a former director of robotics at Google, and CTO Charlie Kemp, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is not building a foundation model or promising to take over every job a human can do. While the latest advances in artificial intelligence promise more capabilities for robots, there is a dearth of useful training data.