Anki CEO Boris Sofman

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Anki, known for creating “robots that move you,” just finished a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund their new home robot, Vector. Anki CEO Boris Sofman sat down with Nilay for this week’s interview episode of The Vergecast to talk about the new companion robot, why gendering the robots is important, and how to avoid the uncanny valley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Verge House is brought to you by the Audi E-Tron.
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0:10.9	Visit AudiUSA.com slash E-Tron to learn more and stay informed.
0:15.4	Hey everybody, it's you, I'm from Verge House.
0:16.6	We're continuing on with our series of extra interview episodes in the feed.
0:20.0	Well, let me know how we're doing.
0:20.9	I've gotten a lot of great feedback, but you don't like it.
0:23.2	Tweet at me too.
0:23.9	I'm very interested in what you think.
0:25.6	This week, we have Boris Safini, CEO of Anki.
0:29.1	You might know Anki is the company that made the little overdrive race cars
0:32.0	or drive themselves with AI.
0:33.9	Well, they've been doing home robots, little cute character robots.
0:36.4	I've got a new one called Vector.
0:37.9	Deeter wrote it up for the site.
0:39.1	But Boris joined me on the Verge House to talk about what it's going to take
0:42.2	to make robots true companions in the home, how they need to be characters.
0:46.3	We talked about gendering the robots, which is the thing that we talk about
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